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394 before the wedding several score of the groom’s more in- timate friends always insist on taking drinks with him, The cumuiative effect of so much sympathetic stimulant is liable to make trouble, so the best man does not permit the groom to over-indulge his feelings. The usual way is for the best man to act the groom's proxy in this matter, so that the night before the wedding is full of trouble for him, Never- theless he must be up early the ext morning, must see that the bridesmaids have all recei. ed their bouquets, that he has the minister's money in the tight pocket, that he has a wed- ding ring in each of his pockets, that the carriage orders are understood, that the groom has made adequate provision for his wedding journey and that the ushers are presentable and can walk. All this he must do without letting the groom leave his sight. When the wedding is over and he has con- signed his charge to the care of the bride, he takes the groom's place as host, and sees in particular that the grocm’s friends from out of town are suitably entertained, and shipped home at convenient intervals on their proper trains, Only when the last of them is gone can he call his man and go home to bed. Is a man ever best man more than once ? Some very popular men have been best man as often as a dozen times, but usually one or two experiences is enough to convince the experimenter that matrimony itself is a less try- ing ordeal. HIDDEN LUMINOSITY. HIS lamp is so heavy 1 can hardly carry it.” “Why don’t you turn up the wick!” > LIFE - THESE LEADERS OF THOUGHT. IRST NEWSPAPER WOMAN (4ng on her dotted vetl): 1 interviewed an oculist last week about these veils. They are very injurious. SECOND NE they make my ey SPAPER WOMAN (tying on hers): Yes; ache horribly. I've written it up, too. H You say there are no flowers for the dinner table! Where are the chrysanthemums I sent home ? Oh, George, don’t speak so loud, you might hurt Bridget’s feelings; she didn’t understand what they were and has cooked them in mil ®€% FOU look very dull this morning,” said the fresh traveller to the conductor on a Western train; “what's the matter. Sick?” “No, only bored. Why, man alive, we haven't been held up and robbed for three whole days !" NEW BOOKS. L/FEOF EDWIN BOOTH. By William Winter. New York and Lon- don: Macmillan and Company. More English Fairy Tales, Collected and Edited by Joseph Jacobs, New York: G. P, Putnam's Sons. London: D. Nutt. Two Soldiers and a Politician, By Clinton Ross. New York and Lon- don: G. P, Putnam's Sons, Old Court Life in France. don: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Knickerbocker's History of New York. By Washington leving. Mlus- trations by E. W. Kemble. Van Twiller Edition. Two Volumes. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Montezuma's Daughter, By H. Rider Haggard. mans, Green, and Company. The River and Wilderness Series. ness Fugitives. II. The River Fug The Price-MeGill Company. By Frances Elliot, New York and Lon- New York: Long- Lena-Wingo. II. The Wilder- By Edward S. Ellis. St. Paul: A FRIENDLY WORD. F Marie Antoinette, Mr. William Shakespere, Frederick the Great, Venus, Dante, Napoleon, Cleopatra, and Captain Kidd should appear at a social gathering on Madison Avenue, the American public would be very greedy for details of the event. The bare announcement of their pres- ence would send a thrill of excitement throughout the world. Such is not the case when we read of the presence of Mrs. Fred Neilson, Mrs, Burke-Roche, Mrs. Charles F. Have: meyer, Mrs, Paran Stevens, Mrs: George L. Rives, Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. Henry Sloane, Miss Randolph, Mrs. William D. Sloane, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Albert Stevens, Mrs, Duncan Elliot, Mrs. I, Townsend Burden, Mr. and Mrs James Lorillard Kernochan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Borden Harr man, Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, Mrs. Fernando Yznaga, Mrs. W. Seward Webb, Mrs.S. V. R. Cruger, Mrs. Ogden Goelet, Mrs, William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs, Henry Clews, Mrs. William Mrs. Arthur Randolph, Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Padelford, Mrs. George B. De Forest at some public or private enter- tainment, particularly when we have already seen these same names a great many times; for it isa lamentable fact that the original excitement decreases with each repetition, It forcibly illustrates the evi jous advertising. While Marie Antoinette, Mr. William Shakespere and the others. may be less interesting personally, the ladies and gentlemen just mentioned fail to create a proper enthusiasm, partly because the novelty of their presence has disappeared, Lire does not care to go into a discussion as to what extent these estimable ladies and gentlemen possess the quali- fications for a permanent popularity. He only wishes to assert, as a friend, that the constant reiteration of their names in the public press is not arousing that joyful interest which they themselves may possibly imagine. comicbooks.com