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i:??SIE THE MANICURIST: g - s i By C. L. CULLEN. . (Copyright.) Mousie Mildred broke into a merry ilittle muffled laugh. She had been silently intent up on my nails for quite some time. The sudd?n out burst of subdued yet bubbling mirth surprised me. I asked- her about it J---"-. . "Oh,;: mithin',' ?he replied. I insisted. "Well," said she, I>ausing for a mo ment to poise her auburn - haired head sidewise, and to glance up at ?nae- with artless archness from that bingle, lose, that's all!" There was nothing elucidatory about that cryptic phrase. So I inquired again. ."Lose what?" I asked her. "Oh, nuthin' to get the gurgly goiter about,", replied Mousie Mildred, jak bing at. the refractory cuticle with the .orange stick. 4 drop a little bet that I make with myself, about you when you limp iii, that'syall; but seein' that it was on'y one o' them mind bets,. I ^don't have1 to base any hard-go?g?d kale to the hand-book, and so it's al! Tight; there's no harm did." * "But what ' was ' the nature of the net?" "I hate to tell yuh," she replied, going -after an imaginary hang-nail with the cuticle scissors; "because you're one o' them zigs-I mean gents -that's a hull lot more dignified than tlaey look. "If I tried to tell yuh about the bet I tried to put over with mysielf you might get sore as a stockyards sweeper and start in to raze the plant to the groun' and fire a volley over the remains." I reassured her as to that, and again urged her to unfold the ?haracter of her wager with herself. "Well," said she, bestowing another ;dazzling upward glance upon me out .of the corner of her wood-violet eyes, ""it's this way, seein* ih?t you're pin 3?n! me to the stick and nickin' me for "what's inside, my think-dish. 17 "When you come in, a while ago', .'and lamped around the t tables, : and piped me .takin';a: peak; at you, and then come ? browsin'. ,oyer. to, my. table here, I made one o'them 36^?ent mind lots with myself that yqu was. one o' them^ oh-youjbabesky-doll. kind, that'd ardly pass, your mit^/oV?if ip be made human lodkin' 'before you'd be .gin -to slip ine th?t To you like1 the theater, Aspasia?' line o' Castiliatf con, :and then get busy guessin' whether I liked ? the way they dish up Bpaghet' at Dufanti's, or would I prefer to tool .out to Foodmanston .Inn in a chug -chaise, and. poke provender , into my map ai freshco, with the birdies twlt terin' tweet-tweetie in the trees, and .all nature smilin' like a front-row gell on the end of the line slantin' a Pitts burgh steel magnet in box A. "That's the way I have you tucked away in the back of my bean when you squat in front, of my bench, and that's the bet I made. Y' ain't mad .over my tellin' yuh, are yuh? You ast me, and I had to unreel it." Again I reassured her, and she pro ceded: "Yuh can't always tell about a zob -I mean a gent-that's there with that town-tease, hamlet-hoiden, oh such-Iarks look about him when he first breezes into a mitt-maison and .does the hurry pipe aroun' the tables to sort over the lookers. "You ain't the first gamble I lose with myself tryin' to pick 'em right on the blow-in, nor the twentieth, when it comes to that. "I'm just as often Little Lucy the Lo; er when I try to pull that read-'em qui k numbah as any o' the rest o' the cia- -polishin' dolls scattered aroun' thei > works. "We all get in German just as often as we dope 'em right. As I was sayin', VI handicapped you for one o' them ^stout-just stout enough-cut-ups "that'd be purlin' the old numbah nine bunk into my ;pinkie-winkio listeners long before you lifted your paws out of the soakin' pan. Says I to myself, 'This keg-I mean gent-will be dang lin' one o'them cochineal-red-ink feeds at the Cafe de Noah's Ark at me before I have time to find out whether he laites his nails. "I'm Jerry to it now that you wouldn't kite a claw-trimmin' doll to a wop or any other kind of a tahb'-dote for the hull lower half o' the island on account o' bein' 'fraid o' what might come off later when, the family was i-epped to it" Unwelcome Invitation. Donald, aged four, had been kept at nome for some time for fear of catch ing the whooping cough, so one after noon, after much pleading with his mamma, he was permitted to take a little outing. While sitting on a bench in the park a child sat down beside him, who at once began to cough violently. Donald's mother snatched him away quickly and immediately started for home. Donald was quite silent on the homeward journey, but just as soon aanke stepped inside of the door of his hqa5e he exclaimed excitedly to his sisters: "O, kids! What do you think? 1 got invited to the whooping cough : today." Ancient Gateways. In days when cities were walled about for purposes of defense against an enemy, most of the masters of the people being marauders and brigands, there were real gates, by which' is meant tremendous doors of solid oak built within stone walls which were indestructible by any weapons of those times. The ancient g?t?s were built in the walls of cities at those points where the chief highways centered and on which an enemy would surely try to make his attack. Appeal for Help. Ruth, who is'two, was visiting her.' grandmother, who' had some summer boarders- with'whom there was a lit tle: boy: whom Ruth disliked very' much, but who was fond of--her. One day, when Ruth was seated on a porch bench the little, boy . came up and sat down close beside her. ; She tried every method to remove him and final-. lj? called in desperation to her'grand mother: "0, grandma, please Vr'cfo come and help me; I'se too much squeezed." . . ." ' ? ' ''"'. ? ; ? ? : . U ! .'.'ii' .V; .; ??I Not What He Meant;. lu a case in which, .a ^nxan; was, charged; with cruelly ./ili-tr.??tin'g ; a*, horste by'working it .in'an unfit, state," a constable expressed the '. opinion that the animal was not1 capable of doing , any more: work- ?n account of its age. ' A solicitor for the defense suggested that the horse . merely required a.-: rest. ? 'Magistrate-"Eternal:.'rest?" Solicitor--"I do not mean that, i sir." ? ''s ?. Wh?t Made Her Laugh. : ' Jean wa& warned by her p?rents'not. to mention the fact ' th?t their guest at dinner had an unusually large nose. In-the cours? of the evening me?hJe?n became convulsed with laughter. She was asked with fear and ? trembling what was the cause of her-mirth. Her reply was: 'O, I'm not laughing at your nose, Mr. Smith-I'm laughing at the plates on mother's plate rail." Flag of Belgium. The Belgian flag perpetuates the colors of the duchy of Brabant, and was adopted when the monarchy was set up in 1831. The red, it should be noted by those who wish to use it cor rectly, forms the fly of the flag, the yellow "the middle, and the black the hoist. The Russian Imperial navy flies the ancient blue saltire of St. Andrew on a white ground^ ? > - ' ? Where CI o ves. Come From. The best cloves come from Amboyna, 'one of the, Molucca islands. , They, are grown,also in Java, Sumatra,;Zanzibar apcT'ln" the West' Indies., The clove, tree grows as high as ,40 'X?&t 'fhe'r?ij?' fruit-resembles a1 small olive. 'The yclovo> of-commerce is -'ttie- r blossom' which! Ifs dried by - exposure to- wood smok?'atid' the sun.' ' ? ? -? .j .?. -? j ji b IFrench Loquacity. There ils no nation like the French. A French milliner will make ? hat "put of a piece of felt and nothing; and a French official will make a diplomatic episode out of nothing at all, putting into five minutes of futility all the Gallic civilization of centuries,-Ar nold Bennett in the Century Magazine. Kindly Thoughtfulness. "How did you ever get the nerv? to play the cornet? Doesn't your prac ticing drive your wife almost to dis traction?" "No," replied Mr. Meek ton. "She encourages me. She thinks that anything that'll change my ordi nary facial expression is worth some sacrifice."-Washington Star. As lt Appeared to Her. Mary, aged five, had been attending camp meeting,, for several days with her parents, and upon her return her little brother asked what it was like. "Oh," she replied, "it's a place where they have Sunday every day in the week." Rich Soil of Russia. The soil of Russia is rich in ores of all kinds, and the mining industry is steadily increasing. 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