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It is generally harder, to the Phila-
lalphia Record, to go Il pleasure
than to 90 for it.
Explains the New York Times:
Some men tell the truth because they
lack sufficient originality to be liars.
The receipt Of 100000 applications
for old-age pensions at the beginning,
thinks the Now York World, more
than iustifies the apprehension Of crit
les Of the new British public-aid
measure.
When the King of Italy reached the
earthQuake-rava2ed region the usual
courtiar said to him: Your Majes-
tvs presence will console the strick-
en- people" Don't talk nonsense.
replied the King, who has not only
a crown but common sense.
Granting the existence of that sup
posed planet beyond Neptune. its
year. astronomers tell Us, agnes the
New York World, would be equal
to about 4 thousand Of orr years.
What a noise the new planctarlans
must make when their new year
comes round,
The fact that the natives Of Mo
zambtQue say that the iinkungo plant
produces an oil superior TO olive OIL
is rot sufficient Was it not in Mo-
zambiGue. shouts the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal. that The natives ate the
travelling missionary's boxes Of axle
grease and Joined his church in the
hope CT getting more cheese?
As a practical farmers lady. the
wife of Governor Sheldon objects TO
the course of the Country Life Com
mission. Not a social whirl. but rella-
BILE help is the rural need, contends
the New York World In other words,
a lift in the kitchen would be worth
two uplifts in the front parlor.
Observes the Detroit Free Press:
It is not likely that We have had any
case where the homicide by automo'
biles has been deliberate, but there
is no doubt that some of our anna
teur chauffeurs do not appreciate the
hazards of the machines which they
toly RI
a conviction on serious charge
could be procured against one OF
them much greater care in the hand
ling of the machines would certainly
be a result.
Il was said Of the great Prussian
field marshal Won Moltke that he
could be silent in seven languages.
John Milton. the tercentenary CT
whose birth was celebrated Dec.
refused to let his daughters learn any
other than their mother tongue, on
the ground that one tongue was
enough for a woman. Perhaps had
Milton realized that silence may be
cultivated no less than speech. sug-
gests the Philadelphia Ledger. he
might have been willing to let his
daughters study to be silent" in half
a dozen languages besides their own.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell. physician
and author recently told a gradual
ing class of nurses at the University
Hospital! in Philadelphia that they
were entering the best paid Cccupa-
ton of women wage-earners." Then
he added: ut is a startling fact that
the limit of the competent working
years Of the trained nurse is from
ten to fifteen years, which simply in
dicates the strain, the sacrifice and
devotion OF those who thus give them
selves to the combat against disease
The man OF fat is no more the IA
vOred mortal that Cnce he was. 1t
was the cid idea that an overweight
had a reserve fund to draw upon in
case there was a run on his bodily
bank, writes Dr.. BrandTeth SymOndS-
chief medical director Of enc OF the
largest New York life insurance COM
panies. in McClures And similarly,
hn saws. an underWeight was consid-
cred to be undercapitaliZed. But these
ideas no longer prevail. 1t has been
demonstrated beyond peradventure
that thu underweicht has much the
best Of it. The overweight is much