Where They Hide Things

Some women have curioua ways of liiding tlieir nioney. The Cincinnati Commercial says: "Mis. Ilansen put ftfty dollars in the oven of her stove one night to keep it safe. Next morning, after breakfast, the national debt had beendiminishedexactiy thatmuch. A student of the curioua would firfe it inteipstitig to note the places in h women hide their money. One jxcellent and frugal dame used to tuck ler little savinga away under a corner of the carpet. The tiny roll of greenbucks crew latter and fatter in the course of a year or two, when, the day ter it counted $250, the house took ire, burned to the ground, and again ;he national debt was diminished by a little roli oi' woman's pin-money. There was that caref irt lady, too, who osed aometimes to bide her diamond rings betweeji two tea-cups in the kitchen cnpboard, sometimea behind a certain brick in the cellar, and again ander the lining of an old hat. She had divers other places of safety for her ewelry also, the only trouble benig that she had so inany hiding-places ghe occasionally forgot where she last put her precious things. and about every three months would fancy she had been robbed, and the house would be turned inside out, and all thereln be inaile uncomfortable until the missing gein would be, Cound carei'ully tucked away in the foldi of the bottom towel of tïie pile'xin the left-hand corner of ttie lower drawer in the clothes-press at the eaat end of the dinimf-room." Madame c. dressmaker, lias ;i great deal of trouble with her work-girls. Tlie other day one of them carne to her to say, "Madame, 1 iear 1 shall not be able to work mucta longer. 1 think I am going blind." "Why, how is tliatV Vou seem to get ilong pretty well with your work." "Yes; bnt I can no longer see any tneat on my ilate at dinner." Madame C. understood, and the next day the young ladies were served with very large but very thin pieces of meat. "Ilownice!" the girl exclaimed. "My sight lias come back. I ean now see better than ever." "How Lsthat, Misa BV" "Why, at this moment," replied Miss B., "I can see the plate through the meat !"