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and q Tammany controlled Public Ser
vice Commission. Would you detect any
OF the gentlemen who have been ad-
dressing mass meetings stating that
these men. II they were trying to put
through anything like the contract the
city Is up against 1.-THE subway situa-
ton, were honestly mistaken?
You don't hesitate to reply with a
loud. ringing negative. Still, We are
told. no Tammany outfit would have
the nerve to try TO put across rye con-
tracts the city Is about to assume with
the Interborough and the r. r. T, Which
appears to go to show that the differ.
ence between an honest mistake and
graft lies In the political allegiance OF
a public ofic!al. 1T also goes to sho w
that the day Of big graft in public con-
tracts Is drawing 10 close. but tina,
the tendency OF public ofncisls to make
honest mistakes In dealing with corpo
rations or persons who make a specially
OF taking the best OF II II stili an attri-
butte OF human nature
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Every boy has EN- orgy plus. It Is his
all born good boys.
The bad boy IL only the boy OF MIS-
DIRECTED ENERGY.
Sometimes, in this direction, the sys.
tenn has to be broken. Instead OF pun
ishing the boy. some other way and
means must be found. For example,
Judge Ben Lindsey. the champion OF
bad boys, knowing the bad 10Y very
we'll. breaks the system,
SO much so. that very often he takes
one Of the worst OF them. puts his arm
around the boy. gives him a ticket. tells
him that he TRUSTS him and puts him
ON HIS HONOR to go direct to the
reform school where he Is going to
make good"
Nine times out Of ten the boy goes q,
he Is directed. When crowd OF boys
are arrested for stealing q sand pile 70
brMd houses. Lindsey argues that the
energy that seeks to build Is not bad 81
he .naugurates sand piles and sees thai
the hoys build the houses WITHOUT
stealing the sand,
Wen-directed energy 10 the best medi
cine for the so-called bad boy" Thu
word Ut approval. the sympathstic hand
( the DIT Of tenderness may always b
} forthcoming from you ana me 40 VI
NEE; him In tas Highways and bHwsy'
! 6 tas svasHaAL v
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are to have trains running through
them in a few years.
"Out OF all the bitterness OF the con-
troversy over the terms OF the contracts
a remarkable fact looms up. like black
eye on a minister OF the gospel. There
hasn't been an accusation that the gen.
tlemen putting through the deal for the
city have been bought.
This is probably the first instance on
record where such accusations have not
been made In connection with the LETTING
Of q fat public contract. The worst that
has been said about the Public Service
Commissioners and the members Of the
Board of Estimate. who have worn the
heels of their shoes backing UP since
the text OF the original contracts be-
came public, Is that they have been de-
ceived by the traction lawyers-that they
were honestly mistaken.
Now. suppos.ng that Instead OF the
present administration there happened
to be In power q Tammany Mayor, a
Tammany controlled Board Of Estimate
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ING Co. The New York E'enins Word.
way. the idea!' exclaimed Mr. Ele-
plant. or course ! would not step on
you. Are those tears In your eyes dew
drops or whatr"
mo. Mr.. Elephant, I've been crying"
What have you been crying about?"
asked the Big Fellow.
Il cannot understand why the sun
does not shine on me as II does on the
daisy" said the Little Violet
"Ha. ha. ha!" laughed Mr., Elephant.
WAY, any dear Little Violet, don't sou
know that II the sun shonc on yoa 4
would burn YOU all up: That /, why
tho violets always grow In tn" shade
Daisies are not beautiful IKE you"
"Oh. thanh sou very much. NJ. E'e'
plant" said the Little Violet, H,tt'ng
down in fhe moss, II sasll never be dis
. A1nAAniea AGAiA."
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The FINANCE OF B0NIFlCATloN.

" ARE indebted Of the witnesses in the trial
w Mills former PeGdent Of the Audubon National Bank
for light the mysteries Of high finance also
for word coined ts voae s beaude
The witness testified he q cafe President came
up and suggested that he buy the bank with the
newsboy The witness consented notes took
them to the bank had them cased walked the where
the directors sitting and bought the bank banks own
money.
When the transaction deemed etiquette
the retiring President "boncaon When definition of
The term the witness said might be understood gift appc
caon for services rendered" II given.
Truly bankers right saying nobody their
ness themselves.
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RIGHT OF WAY FOR TAxlcAB COMMITTEE.

YAVNG been rorganzcd and partially renovated and
structed the Taxcab Committee Of the Board Of
Aldermen purposes work next week upon the task
OF framing such regulations Of the cab traffic will satisfy popular
demand for service adequate to the needs Of the prizes suf-
ficienty reasonable to enable people to make Of H.
The promise is cheering For about the issue has been
under investigation There has been dread that with chair
and member the committee might decide the
process Investigating has in fact become legislative vice. Wo
find Congressman Legislator County Supervisors and AZ
dermen Each investigation the papers the
light Of publicity and the investigator sits the centre and feels
great JOY At the latest count there eighteen such nvestga
ticns operation with the legislative session still young
began look would need central investigating
to investigate other investigating committees and what they
investigating But promised at least partial relief
Right Of way for the Taxicab Committed
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GOOD HUM0R IN HIGH OFFICE.

w YHEN asked to review the experiences Of his term Of Office
w President Of the French Republic NJ Faleres said 81
glad of hs-thst always preserved my good humor
The the interesting because do associate calm
and temper with the Gallo disposition We have had
habit of assuming them be characteristics Of the Teutonc
Yet here Frenman of the French clothed with and placed
in highest station who maintained his dignity with mixed in
quarre and after Of trial with the happy
that he kept his temper through allan example Ger
Kaisers and to several eminent Americans.
1t would Roosevelt il hc could
tanned good humor the Presidency It would have been better
Taft he his smile Roosevelt spng
1t would be better for he would this late
study the lesson and profit by Incidentally would also be better
for the public display Of bad temper in Of high station rr
as the popular mind On the other hand the leadership Of
who humor how sweet Of great
value soenng public dsconten After the rration OF Cevc
land the Presidency Of Mckinley like balm Faees has
fashion for the wise 20 follow.
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sleep in a doorway by the said police
man. Along came Mrs. william N.
Kingsley who was taking a tour through
the Children's Court. and became inter-
ested In the miscreant
She talked with him for a few mo-
ments. placed him beside q table where
some others like him were playing
checkers, and pretty soon the scowl dis
appeared from his face and Was RE-
PLACED by a smile. When the boy
smiled. the bad" In him had dlsap-
peared and he no longer WANTED to
81 - a policeman or kick him In the
shins.
Fer 4 woman hxd nut hsr arms .shou,
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A TESTIMONY VERSUS A THEORY.

r. SAMUEL H. LONDON, who has made long study of the
V social evil quoted denying the existence Of any such
Ava bondage usually understood by the phrase "whe
slavery saving: "Of really controls GIRL She
leave him If che wants co. but she has 10 choose location
worry distant from her old haunt where SHE 90? She
subsection Thst is white slavery a any
girl in her line comes"
The opinion Of special student Of the subject not 10 he
lightly set sde but tho very day he giving out this state
neni girl in the Of United States Judge Humid
thrown into Mysteries while discussing her testimony with Of
the prosecuting attorneys white and the her
fright so-calcd "death sign flashed talked
Her testimony is that she told she "woud get the knife"
unless she ocyed certain and entered dsorderly
therefore, under something than voluntary that
she yielded share Of her earnings to her "protsctor
The plain truth there bs safe made
concerning the problem The only Investigations worth while from
practical standpoint will be those directed to each particular
it arises
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The Days Good Stories
Caught on the Fly.

A WELL Known but brohsa du~u Dstroi,
~ n<~spsar mao. who had bscu . power in
Inc day. spvoschcd an aid fhsod the Other
DAY In the Pontohsrtrsin hpel and aid:
What DO you think have lust rscsiyrl
the prize insNt Of my Life paper down IN
Munae. Ind, ansTei me . lob"
DO you sal that an insaH''
"Not the Job. but the ahy. They offered N,
ai2 . week."
We'll" said the friend. twelve dorsr
week u bstt<r than no,hins.''
"Twsi~s Q wssk thundsrl' exclaimed the on
~nhs. u esa borrow noss than that hyM her
u psssdt. '-pststt tns r. 4
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He Wanted to Know.

A irishmsa tst landed 20; work On tn
~ Hsw York Central a. nasmao at Tam
tosn. Ills f!ras day on the job hs waved
The nd danger signal before the Empirs State
gxprss. Tes makss s,relied down. the train
s.o?prd asd the or~ ran up.
''whss's the mattsri Why did yoa SOP this
trsinf". tbs Conductor demanded.
''weli'------ began the nssnan.
''tont yoa know TIA . stats fs!son osfsnss
10 80, . us!n without cau@'" utas conductor
ss..siasd. why. ss'se t~cusy uinuuv lsts
..rh.is w. ~. W. ia. ..av>s Who're ss,.
- ~ ~ lss ssisiy nisu kssass ssAs.
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for the peace and tranquility OF your
country he believed that II you two
could meet and have a pow WOW II
would result In a more brOtheriy settle
ment Of all dihiculties.'
''what a grand man lee was" said
Gen. Mcclellan. Perhaps I could have
counselled better than I could hght,
and might have safely preserved the
line Of caution which even my friends
cenuired me for trying to keep too
| rigidly. Yes. Pickett. my Judgment was
questioned when DID not move against
| Manassas In the fall when the weather
and tho walking were good. And again
At Antietam, my lack of proper eduIp-
ment not being taken into consideration.
Others saw only the weather and the
walking; they did not see my side
While I WAS urged on by the President
felt that I, not Mr.. Lincoln, was
| responsible for the fate Of my army"
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Chats With Great Men CT tire Civil War
By Mrs. Gen. Pickett
YY.-GEN. GEOkGE 8. MCCLELLAN.
Copyright. 1918.
~ ne f'ros puslisAiss o..
cTns Ss~ Ysrs Evssins worid).


ohce
m o
Soldier admit the shadow
q
Ancolns Characteristic
he
Mcclellan
opposite Pickett Gettysburg
anyhow"
solclous
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getting . waioplng In school. wsrs
pretty well assured OF getting another
when VIC got home.
II can't see any difference between
the boys to-day and tho boys Of thos.
days. except that the boys OF this time
are wiser for their years and more
skilled in deceit. II corporal punish
ment didn't hurt the rising generation
that has now arisen Il can't hurt the
present generation that II rising
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tearie S.. was
brought into the
Chlldren's Court.
The policeman told
Judge Hoyt that
the prisoner was,
A very bad boy "
II developed tina,
the bad boy had
kicked the police.
mans shins and
tried to bite the
pohceman's hand
since he had beer
awakened fro II
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n Co. the New Yosh Evening Werb,.
The teaohers-ali msles-|uers not ~
stricted in their methods Of discipline
II was . daily occurrence for . fresh
kid to get his pants busted with eaw.
hide whip.
Il never saw one get . licking tAat
didn't deserve Il and never . one got q
licking that didn't do him good. And
We all respected the teacher who wasted
no time in tsmporixinE with an unruly
boy.
Also. in addition. some Of u, afteu
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EN-" said the laun.
dry man. while
the public In gem
efal hasn't the
slightest idea OF
what the extern
sions and additional
lines are goinG n
cost or how they
are to be paid for,
there II a genera
satisfaction In the
knowledge that the
holes in background
now under way
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I'VE. the dsnaei body with the olive
nston
c.tany but they did
quickly"
@ course Gen Porter authorized to receive tho
should
Pickett
to
Of
Don't please Soldier n fault
do not Of amt
~ will
had
Of our
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By Sophie Irene Loeb

I could to start those babies smiling.
Their hard faces haunted me. I thought
u I could induce them to smile I would
have done something. at least. I wish
] could do more
Just so! One can't do 1t alone. The
world II full Of good little bad boys
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him and softened his grievance into
gratsfulnsss. When folks. little or big.
arc grateful they are not revengefui.
Mrr. Kingsley said. In speaking Of her
interest In the court children;
NO boy Is a bad boy II he Is given
u ALE a chance. I resolved to do wh Al
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Back to the spank!

AMY HAT DO you think Of the idea
M Of restoring spanking In the
w public schoois:" asked the
head pol!sher.
I'm an Oid-fashionad guy On that sub
tect," replied the Laundry man. MY
early education was aC h.e,ed la q school
aSAAnAeA ~ Jhs AvasaGs run al taxs.
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York Evening World,

by The Press Publishing Co. cIhs New York Evening World.
GA USr have nag Of truce. or Will the long time
M friendship between your husband and myself
A'A serve ene?' asked Gen Mcclellan when my
Soldier presented him Ia IN the old New
York Hotel tho year after Lees surrender
"A nag Of truce would not necessary you
General even In the midst OF hostNities" replied.
THANK You. appreciate the kindness Of that
sponse for trace the echo its Speaking
flag OF truce know. tho rst nag OF used
war was sent from the South to the Potomac
and came before Con- Andrew Porter who didn't know
what earth 10 do with t. There great excitement
and condemnation Porter afraid H. afraid
refuse and afraid to ignore It, Finally after consultation
he referred It 20 the authorities Washington 1t was
Just after the FIRST great battle d.Enined squad
Confederation marched down TO the main
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Made the Wrong start.

GEI SEE" said the head polishsr. "ths,
a composer jumped from . win.
4 dow and killed himself he sthe,
day because he couldn't realize hi.
Ideals"
TOO bad he gave up" said the laundry
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" on the Other SINGING softly 70
himself:
"Smn Gomez up in the morning,
And rides around oil day:
Noon comes up in the evening.
And hasn't long TO sfop."
Mr.. Elephant stopped suddenly AMI
looked around. \ tiny title voice was
calling him:
'Please. Mr.. Eiephan,, DO be careful
not TO step on me-"
Looking down the hugo fellow saw a
little violet smiling up at him out OF Il
he'd OF moAs.
What Is thst' asked NJ. Elephant.
You almost stepped on me-" replied
The Xttls Violet
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How to Make Him Good @I r:S: $ss s& ssn " By

.HE other day, so the story goes.
~ very tired. very dirty urchin.
= hardly twelve years old. bat thin.
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man, when most OF the successful CEN.
posers are trying their levsl best Il
drive audiences to jumping from win.
dows."
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tn. re~rn hhs CO. tn. YORK
u Babylon. rhO
~ sessed Of THEORY
it vo $ chst study Of ma"
is
great strategy pntie"t
the o burning question, "Why womony"
ork thereon discussed theories cih III. and the ph''o'"
silent
Women
her nhiMs fn workings Of her mind thai
he did NOT
Yea a TYPE beetle.
and butterflies EnomooOst
And all the porid halted him ,rceedine rise
behold a Flu6y Thing
And rhen she him she secretly marked him to
HER
Of her
pldfonfc
And in three neeks they married.
Yet all he that cud deItous
ADORE her
fitted her
they 1ere as clans and thich nerer AGREE.
And rhen they had DIVORCED he cried
"Lo CURED! a DAne~
I
FOR
accordton plated ru0e!
thereafter
vIDUALLY
they are oil az the Ydle lock- Of whih ALIKE
Verify Verify, chen neither
Mi
Of my joke. and doth NOT GET UPON NERvEs~
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The Weeks Wash
BIZ Martin Gree n

Copyright. 1919 ~ The frss pabashi
ar OOkB like We might get those
new subways after ALL" re-
- marked the head polisher.
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JunSle Tales for Children
by Farmer Smith

copynSh. 1913, BY THE pNs Publkh
n AR ELEPHANT was dancing
IM around hrst on one foot and then
IVA on tho other singing softly to
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Daddy 'sBedtirne
Dannie Had
NtOYV One Reason For
= Being Glad
Dsnnie Does Not Liz.
TO Be Washed.

OMETAES Gumbed did ,oo,
no scrubbed he noge oors
~ have
o INF
sureb
children daddy
Seen "a hath?" inquired
n airs a.
a ponpt,
medicine.
his washed
maid who takes the children
taking the CLOTH
will
scod shakes him
q battle all the others
children
1ortei about here and there
"annc in front of Ned his
his head struck the forehead
children
the
the his father home he
Picking he
office blood
1T deal Danne
die thread ana stitched the After
white
rut daddy swil
all be covered up Nora can't wash them now"
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Il Was Easy to Read.

ON Philadelphia paper worked Ju-
Illus Kaufman, Dane who wrote
very clever, forceful puugent cditori-
ais. kaufman's English was impec-
cable hut his writing was impossible.
1t seemed 10 have been done with
bent pin aud an asphalt mixture.
George Kennedy was the only man on
the copy desk who could read il. one
day Kennedy came Ia Editor Thomp-
son, shaking his head. ITS all off. said
he. I've lost my punch. read this
thing of Kaufman's with perfect ease
until | got halfway through. and then
stuck. don't know why. The
second half of his stuff looks Just like
the first half But | can't read It."
Thompson took that manuscript over
10 corner. BY and by Thompson
came back with lines Of strain around
his mouth. Put II M to Kaufman"
said he. Either he's gone nooey or
we have"
So when Kaufman came I'm they
gave him his manuscript AMI told him
10 60 away somewhere and find ont
what it meant. by and by. he came
back beaming at wass easy" said
he. THE second part | hat yoost
wrote in Danish. "-Argonaut
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. LUCKY LIGHTNING STRIKES :;


our forcfathers had many theories
one could bc struck 10y lightning while
asleep. and no tree struck by lightning
could be burnt. Splinters from such
a tree. diligently chewcd. were an in
fallible cure for toothachc. and were,
OF course, pleasanter to the taste than
the dentists forCeps.
And the old-time schoolboy firmly
believed that if he We're rash enough
10 mention lightning directly after a
flash, the important part of his raj
ment would Immediately be torn off
And many were his attempts To land
his fellows in that prcdicamcnt.
To be struck by lightning is still a
most lucky thing for the Greek peas
ant-if he is not killed. such a man,
says J. <. Lawson, may indulge n
taste FOR idlenesS for the rest of his
lite-his neighbors will support him
and enjoy at the same time the repu-
tation OF being something more than
human. This is an inheritance from
ancient days Artemidorus. an au-
thority ON occult matters who flour
ishcd in the time of Marcus Aurelius,
commented on the fact that while a
place struck 10y lightning had an altar
erected upon H. and was thenCeforth
both honorcd and avoided. mo one
who has been struck 10y lightning is
excluded from citizenship; indeed such
a one is honored even as god"
The election Of Quintus Julius Ebur-
nus To the consulship in ll6 b. c.. is
to his having been favored
thus 10y the gods
Some have had physical reasons TO
rejoice that they had been struck by
lightning. De Quatrefages mentions
the case of telegraph employee at
StraSSburS who was struck senselcss
and remained paralyzed until the next
day but thereafter enjoyed better
health than ever before
Lightning is said to differentiate be-
tween trees as well as men and wo-
men. some years ago Mr.. McNab, "A
fellow OF the Botanical society of Ed
investigated into the general
~ received opinion that neither the
beech nor the birch is ever struck by
lightning. He collected information
regarding lightning struck trees
throughout Great Britain and found
no single instance of either of these
species being struck. Investigation i'm
North America gave similar results.
He found indeed, that in the fores:
regions there "A beech tree was regard
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A Natural Mistake,

Uncle Jake was employed around
the house in various capacities, includ-
ing that Of valet to the master OF the
place. Came once from the city some
friends Of the master, with riding toys
of all sorts. One gentleman In partic-
ular had a pair of riding boots. and
upon retiring he placed these outside
his door to be BACKED. Careful OF
their shape. he put long wooden trees
in them. Uncle Jake dutifully collect
ed these boots and cared for them. The
next morning he was very solicitous
for the owner and sought to aid him
when he mounted his horse. The rid
or vaulted easily into the saddle.
We'll. subj" exclaimed Jake admir-
ingly, You certainly gifts about power
full easy for gemman with two wood
en- laigs--yas. sub. York Post.
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sheets and wore them as decorations.
Somewhat later an Englishman at
breakfast remarked To his neighbors:
You are English gentlemen. I oh.
serve. Most extraordinary people.
these Germans students, as body,
raving mad. gentemen''
"Oh, no." said somebody else, Eek
citable. but very good fellows, and
very sensible"
by heaven. sir" returned the old
gentleman. still more disturbed. then
there's something political In 1t. and
I'm marked man. | went out for
little walk this morning after shaving,
and while | was gone"-he fell In a
terrible pcrSplration as he told it
they burst into my bedroom. tore mp
the sheets AMI are now patrolling tho
town In all directions with bits of EN-
In their buttouholcs.'
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COMBINING The PREDICTIONS.

There are some people who permit
thrir imssfuarons To- work On alarm
ist calculations projected into the dis
oussious al gatherings of talking Sci
rutsts There are other, who refuse
to lose their appetite or digestion, but
philos.pliculy determine TO take the
world 8s il ways and not to- believe
ul that thcy hcar-especially when
what tbcy hear is unpleasant The
Ncw York World elects to belong to
the Latter elias, It even goes so far
as 90 indulge in little joke over two
Extraordinary predictions which last
week were cou,cmporsneously thrust
before the attention of the reading
uubl--oHe in q cable message from
birmingham, England. the ether in "a
dispatch from Colorado Springs The
World observes
According To Prof Dickson of Edin-
LIrgh. whose address before the Brit
lsh Association created a sensation"
the failure Of the wheat acreage to
keep pace with the increase Of popu-
lat.on VIII bring humanity face to
face with starvation whiting the CEN
tury' And according to Dr. Kellogg.
who addressed the American Public
Health Association at Colorado
Springs. "the hirth-ratc is Decreasing
iu manner that will bring it to the
tanishiHg-point in 2Ol2" As the dates
Tor these dire coming ncies coincide
il is obvious that the one will Offset
the other Everybody having persisted
by that time, th"rN wy ue no new
mouths 20 feed and no need Of wheat
or any other kind Of food. You pay
your money and take your choice Of
theories.
In thus giving IFS sense Of humor
tree play the World sc,s a good exam
p'e The un,rammeIed exercise Of the
power ro extract innocent amusement
from passing events adds greatly to
.He joy # Life.