Life Studies

Th" mnn o v. li'-f'i:; is tnc siient partner of tha god Tli" aiMji wlio is chronically hard-up is geuerally down at the heel. The mun who chases bubbles will be sure to bark Ms shins, eooneror later. The tronble with the administration has been explalnod. The President likes hard-boiled cg-gs. It begin.s to look as though the book 'agent would have to go. Somebody has invented artificial eetre. An eastrru pbysician bas published a work telling how to prevent scan. A treatise on mlnding one's own business, most likely. A New Sforker was flned a thousand dollars the other day for nearly killing a wotnan. It may bc taken for granted that she was not his wife. It is snid tliat aChinuman oever goes crazy. There is no reason why ho should. MUIinery bilis are unknown in the Flowery Kingdom. The average lengthof life is said to be on thfl iiicrcnsc, bui the m:m wlio is waitlng for aotnebody'g old shoea don't seem to tind mnch comfort in the discovery. "Colored jewels are to be all tha raTC this season.1' says a f:ushion item. What's the odds whether the cook is white or black so long as she understands her business. "All men are rnlcd by trilles," says an essayist, but Miagáis afiirms that any man who calis tus wife a trille don't know what he ia talking about. She weighs over two hundred. A scienti.'-t somewhere has been trvLng to prove that sunlight is blue. He will flnd tlir. present an excellent time to push his theory. The holiday bilis are beginning to come in. If there is anywhore in Ufe a silverfringed, 18-karat, full-jeweled moment, it is the diamond-bespangled instant when the young husband lirst discovers that his wife knowa how to cook. Dr. Marv Walker was forcibly ejected from one of the departments at Washington the other day, on account of hnpertlnent conduct. If she wants to be treated as a gentleman she should behave as such. The blissful chisticity of spirit which a self-inadc man ia supposed to possess, is despondency itself compared to that ecstatio buoyancy of soul which permeates the being of the street arab whohas learned t plav a tune on the raouth organ.