New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

series of four costume parties ar
ranged by four young mattohs At '"''.
resnective homes we're the features VI
tho season i'm that set. The firs' was All
old fashioned calico party al WHO" w.
women all wore gowns oil that hia'e
Al the next one the prescribed oress i''
-, o,d women was Of the DirectolIe
,oriod and by the time the third enter
,ainment took place the young folks had
Graduated into the Turkish class. the
last one. which took place dangerously
near the beginning Of the Lenteh season
was before the-war costume aHalr' anu
hoop skirts were so popular that the par
Elephants wondered how their sI""u
mothers ever found room enough 10 ~"
terrain their friends. one of the even
iness amusements was playing lotto WIN
a set of cards which had not been USED
since 1854
MY son has become acquainted carry
with womans pernu!'
How now ., hin, IN
Hcl. ber slate for her and then declined
IN Hiss him ON account of possible germs
i Louisville Courier-JournaL
4 commercial bulletin from Vienna says
that the fashionable dressinahIns es'"o
lishments Of that city have had as
astrous season. Women have not grow"
less anxious To dress well and to lollo"
,h. commands Of those who make the
,asb,o,s saws this authority. but there
has been less money at their commahu
than the large houses anticipated "n'"
they laid I'm great stocks OF goods no
Balkan war was a potent iactor III w,
business shrinkage. one mouse i"'''
With AN Indebtedness Of l2W'"" hfo'e"'
l., FORMER wears the goods which were
not DISPOSED Of To the home 0ade WEI
readily disposed OF In the region W"o'e
,,oy NOW have more use for ioodstu"
.,d bospitsl supplies than for new iash-
,on.d GOWNS. one concern I'm which the
da,,, GALES averaged 500 kronen last year
rsnorts this year AN average OF nel"ech
80 and so kronen.
.r. ,,a, dat gets too fur away said
,ntc I,bcu FUN dat idea about oSht
bo,rs' work. eight hours recr'atloh az
n;oi, hours' sleep Is mighty II Die 10 lllu
hise'f I'D aginst eight hours i"dl, - >,
hours worry an eight hours insomnia
Washington star
Writing to a German paper from Ne"
York a foreigner says that ne mas d's-
covered other than architectural changes
3, H.u York since my Ihisl visit here hve
wears ago. one of them l. the difference
in the way that many men READ theli
,evsnapers At that time noticed that
nearly every man turned 20 one OF the
,as, n,ees Of his paper as soon as he
hogan TO read Il. and when | asked the
reason FOR this was told that the STOCK
Exchange report was the attractive feat
IRE. Il may be Imagination Oh my part
or an error OF perception. but ! believe
that the men OF New York are not 50
deeply Interested I'm that part of the news
as they were and that more Of them
begin to read their papers on the hrst
page
SilHcus-A man never hears the best
things that are said about him
Cyncus-No. he's dead then.-Philadel-
phia Record.
In many OF the articles which have been
published recently about General Daniel
r. Sickles he has been referred TO AZ
the only major general on the retired
list sho served with similar rank In the
Civil War" The records Of the War De-
partment show that the following officers
now on the retired list served IN the
civil War as major generals. Grenville
NJ Dodge. f. J. Osterhaus. Daniel T..
81.
She-You once said YOU would die for
me. and now YOU refuse to get up aud
light the fire
Iie-That's perfectly logical II ! died
for you I'd be done with 1t. but II | get
up once and light the fire you'll want mo
10 do IL every morning Boston Tran