Interesting Washing

An amusing little story is told inconnection with a French journalist, who in his early days as a reporter had a deeply rooted aversión to the regulation notebook of his order, and hit npon a method of taking notes which afforded him great satisfaction. He wore large white linen cuffs, and npon them, by the aid of a tiny penoil. he took down his notes and impressions in all sorts of places, unobserved by those around him. At first his laundresswas greatly puzzled by these peculiar ornamentations, but as time went on she learned to decipher many of them, and gathered the news of the week f rom her patrón 's cuffs, much to her delight. One night, when she took home the washiiig, the journalist chanced to be coming out of his room as she entered. "Ah, monsieur," she said, dropping a courtesy, "your last washing was very interesting, but we had less political news than the week bef ore. Is it not so?"