Life — December 31, 1896 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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TF ‘OR At Wlly “THE female sex,” said Monsieur C. he most illos } in the world.” “What new proof have you of the want of devotion of women to the canons of logic?" he was asked. Why, take my wife,” answered Monsieur Calino. Thad all the trouble in the world to get her to enter ther thirties, and now, a dozen years later, I can’t get her put of them."—7he Wa ino, lately, “is Turopore ROOSEVELT was not always the fluent prator and ready extemporancous speaker that he is to- Hay, but this is not a matter of surprise, as precocity is never proof of greatness, although it has in many noted instances characterized those who afterward became Theodore Roosevelt was a wide-awake, hustling ‘ood at his books, but better at his sports, a lover bf all outdoors, and a healthy, hearty, sturdy American At school he was required to write essays, deliver * speak pieces,” just as are all schoolboys in khose modern days, and his old playmates still delight relate how Ted” brought the house down by his method of rendering that old stand-by, ‘ Marco Roz- is." Everybody knows at least the beginning of the stir- king poem : At midnight in his guarded tent The Turk lay dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knees in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power. When young Roosevelt's turn came to speak he rose ith all confidence and began : Re midnight in his guarded tent urk lay dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knees=—" ‘Then his memory failed him and he repeated : “ Greece her knees—" In vain; his memory stubbornly refused to work. Once more he shouted desperately ** Greece her knees— ‘The old professor looked over his spectacles and en- couragingly remarked : rease her knees once more, Theodore; perhaps she'll go then."—Chicago Times-Herald. A RECENT clopement and wedding in Chicago have revealed the fact that there is an elopement club among the girls of a Chicago high school. Its written consti- tutiqn has been discovered, and its salient features are lows : his organization shall be called ‘The H. P, H. S. Elopement Club.’ ** Absolute secrecy as to time and particulars of elope- ment shall be maintained even between members. ‘‘Membership shall be limited to seven, and shall cease the moment the wedding-ring is placed ona true sister's finger. ** The older the man inveigled into eloping, the more credit shall be given the departing sister. “Boys under eighteen years are not to be considered responsible. ** Milwaukee is the Gretna Green preferable. “Trunks and trousseaus absolutely forbidden, wedding trips are also barred. Long HARPER AND BROTHERS, The Relation of Literature to L ley Warner. Frances Waldeaux. By Rebecca Harding Davis. In Bohemia with Du Maurier, By Felix M Original Drawings by G. Du Maurier. sexes English Society. Sketched by George Du Maurier, The Sguare of Sevens. By E. Irenaus Stevenson, A Virginia Cavalier. By Molly Elliot Seawell. George Washington. Ry Woodrow Wilson. trated by Howard” Pyle, Harry Fenn, and others. By Charles Dud. Tus. 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