The Girl In The Boarding House

"Be confidentlal with no one," writes Ruth Ashmore in the November Home Journal, advteing 'The Girl Alone in the City," who :ives in a boardimg house. "Do not allow yourself to become the vtotlm of the idle young matron who has not your need for work, who has a great love for gossip, and who is only too wllltag to teU you an unpleasant story abouty our landlady, to hint at the various people who own her money, and who joys in seeing you shudder as slie hints at some awful story whieh she supposes is true, and whlch makes you thihk less of gome one who had seemec agreeable. I do not advise you in the evening to seek the solitude of your gloomy iïttle room, but I would suggest that you be careful, even in your choice of acquaintances. A lively game, some pleasant musie, or an interesting chat may be possible, even in a boarding house parlor, provided Lhe game is not allowed to entrancing, the music to continue too late or the agreeable talk to -legenerate Into gossip. 'Do not permit yourself to dlscuss whether the palé young man at the end of the table pays four or five dollars a week, whether the landlady's rent is properly attended to, or whether ín dividlng the most palatable dish, she gives larger portions to some people than to others. She would be more than an angel if she did not find pleasure in showing some courtesies to those who are considérate of her. It might be wise for you to thlnk that she once made a home only for those who were bound to her by ties of love or kiindred, and that now it is stern necessity that forces her to make a home for all sorts and conditions of men and women, and that shf: deserves sympathy, rather than harsh critieism. Put your mother in her place, and try to decide whether she would do better or vvorse.': This sort o' green cheese tale Is reeled off by the Daily Times scribe : A modest young lady who desired to make a purchase at a dry goods store addressed the young man behind the counter thus : "It is my desire to obtaln a pair of circular elastic appendages, cápatele of being contracted or espanded b.y means of oscillating burnished steel appliances that sparkle like particles of gold leaf set with Alaskan diamontls. and whlch are utilized for retaining ia proper position i lic habilaments of the lower extremIties, whlch innate jdelic-acy forbids me to mention." Tlie clerk thought a moment and said' he believed sh needed a pair of garters.