Life — February 14, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LIFE The other day, in a comer of a veranda, Was on the other side of a lattice engaged another man. ‘* Now, Jim,” makes people think you are crazy ; so.” Jim said not a word in reply. he was a surly, dogged fellow. ** Just think of it,” the voice went on; fabbering to yourself like an idiot. Sometimes f the habit grows on you, as it seems to be doing, you'll presently be gi away badly, “Some of your affairs of heart w 0, trouble. said he, “you've got to stop it; it’s a foolish habit. and I'll be hanged if I don't know but you are getting He seemed to be taking this plain talk well, or else Jim, it won't do—it won't do.” the Listener happened to hear a man who ‘evidently in a little friendly admonition of It “you're no sooner alone than you begin s you talk to yourself about serious concerns. ing yourself 1g you into Now you'll be coming out next, and get Still Jim’held his tongue. rattle on to yourseif about things that aren't of much consequence, of ordinary business affairs; and it doesn’t make a great deal of difference about those even if somebody does hear them ; Emily. Emily, Emily serve you right perhaps, for a reply. firm grip on you, off in'the middle. Bite it in tw or it'll get the better of you! “Yes, quit it, Jim!” there was only one man there.—Aave Field's “One thing must be admitted in favor of our sex," rights and superiority to ber husband. ‘+ In but suppose, when the habit is so fixed on you that you don't know what you are saying, some of the boys should overhear you murmuring to yourself: 1’ woulent you be guyed unmercifully, though ? Jim still doggedly held his peace, though the voice waited five minutes, “Oh, Emily, ‘And it would presently the voice began, ** before its gets a Whenever you hear yourself beginning to utter a word choke it right Stop talking aloud to yourself—stop it, I say, stop it, hen there was a sigh—evidently from Jim. could not resist the temptation to peep around the lattice at the fellows, The Listenet He did so, and Washington. * announced the advocate of female the time of need we are always strong. Can you mention the name of a single woman who has lost her head in time of danger?” * Why, there was the lovely Marie Antoinette, my dear,” suggested her husband, mildly, with a deprecatory smile.— Youth's Companion. THAT one had lost the buoyancy of youth. She had not the delicious sense of pos- session of the earth, with none of the responsibilities for keeping it in order, that animat- ed two younger women whose conversation was recently overheard on the street. They had just emerged from the Telephone exchange, where they were employed. “Sometimes,” said one of them, “I think that I would like to be famous; that I would like to go on the stage and act, or on the lecture platform. Then again I think not.” “‘T thiok not all the time,” was the positively-spoken rejoinder. Still, it must be nice to play upon the emotions of the multidute.” OF course itis. “That's what makes it so jolly in the telephone exchange. | When we talk sweetly to some man through the ‘phone I can tell by the way he coos back that he is smirking in the most absurd manner. And if I want to make him angry I tell bim the line's busy and ring in his ear, I tell you, my dear, when it comes to playing on the emotions of he multitade Sarah Bernhardt will have t6 give extra matinees if she wants to surpass us in opportunities."—Nate Field's Washington. ‘THE sort of sentiment which the French system of marriages de conveyance, or in plain English, of marriage for money, produce is well illustrated by a story which a rench paper tells. Marie, a young lady, announces to her parents that she has accepted the hand of Monsieur x. “Child, you are craz; “ But why, mamma “Young X will have no money for many years, because it all belongs to his grand- father, and after that comes his father, and you will be old before you get at the property.” “But, mamma—" No buts about it—you are a bad and undutiful child !" “But, mamma, it is the grandfather whom 'I've accepted !"" “The grandfather! Oh, you little angel!" Wilmington News. ! exclaims Marie's mother. A story is told on a Captain Wielder, who was endeavoring to instruct some young ladies in military tactics, and during the course of instruction he sought to teach the ladies the position of a soldier, Said the Captain, according to a Chillicothe paper, “You must stand erect, allow the weight of the body to rest naturally and easily upon the feet, which must be pointed at an angle of about so degrees. 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