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In opposition to the tendency of Difficulty of Doing Right Thing In the most fashionable wed-our times, they seem to have Mr. J. Haslam, in a speech at ding of the summer, Miss Muriel assumed that if bakum picking a meeting in connection with the Full Ofbtons Oatalogue Supplement Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and was an anachronism, some sub- Federation of Grocers' Associa Mrs. Wham K. Vanderbilt, stitute should be found, so they tions, recorded in the "Yorkshire became the bride of Mr. Frederick are going to set tho men who Post," said that whatever grocers C. Church junior, of Boston, an come under their charge to the did they would, like other people, insurance broker and member of sawing, chopping, and bundling be wrong. "If you are not suc a family as prominent la Masla- of wood. This decision calls for cessful in business," he remarked, chusetts as is the Vanderbilt no. criticism; for while by

no "you are incompetent. If you are family in New York. The chief means every man who resorts to successful you are a profiteer. If Interest in the wedding was the the casual ward on occasion is to you go to church you are ̧*

be classed as a professional hypocrite. If you do not, you are. question, undecided until the last moment, whether a Roman Catho- tramp, it is still in the public in a sinner. If you give away) lic or Protestant clergyman would terest to find some appropriate money or are hospitable, you do it officiate. In spite of all the task which suggests to the re for advertisement. If you do not pressure brought to bear upon tipient that his daily bread and you are stingy. If you drive a him, Mr. Church remained true to his nightly shelter have to be Rolls-Royce, you are extravagant. the Episcopal faith, and two surned, and if aimless roaming If you drive a Ford you are the Episcopal clergymen officiated. about the country by people joke of all your friends. If you Up to the hour of the wedding without any visible means of wear both belt and braces you are everything was in readiness for subsistence is to be discouraged. a pessimist: if you wear neither the pastor of a Roman Catholic work must not be too attractive. you are an optimist. It is very church at Newpors to step in and Human nature is infinite in its difficult to carry on under these pronounce the couple man and variaty, but we never heard any conditions." wife if Mr. Church relented. The one. however peculiar In his or bride, whose mother is a Roman her tastes, who enjoyed picking Catholic, has been reared as when Thomas Carlyle was extoll oakum, even in the golden age

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Men's Hat Sizes For Women.

bobbing and Eton crop fashions Compelled by the. shingling,

the leading manufacturers have to make smaller hats for women, decided to make women's hats in has what have come to be known as "men's sizes." No man who has put a hundred hats before his soen a saleswoman compelled to

those conceptions. will be few regrets over the cessa- tion of oakum picking. pursuit does belong to the past, This and it has been difficult to justify for a good many years past. Tá.erary “Ghosts."

my

A novel whek prived on lesk the other day mide me reflect

th; labours of fibrary "glass"

will regard this as another incur sien of woman into man's domain, "A seven and one-eighth, please, in a sky blue felt" will narrow down the search considerably. "There was never any general use of hat sizes for women until

wife before she finds one to suit

they reduced their measurable head circumference." a "Daily Mail" reporter was informed by a firm of manufacturers of

Four hours before he was due to hang for murder in Chicago-how migh they paid and how Jail Russell Seolt, the young y ave hirst. Are there lists of actor and financier, was saved useful and no debt diservas from the gallows for the second people kept in the most remote time within a week and the third er of the publisher's safe? women's hats, although the time since he was found guilty of t, how do they get in touch with circumference in inches" WAS holding up a chemist's shop and Would-be andhers?

Csilly often used as an index," killing a clerk in April 1924 at a mild sors of glasting, Bugistered smaller than men are Vrat Hee age adivertisement which size as small as 5 should be re-

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secure a new trial for the condemned man, who had almost any man woman who man-by the hatters to be because ages to become famous, or murvy women's heads are smaller than given quested a last few hours in rats, ipso facto acquires ut men's. The 8 size is for the cient skill to write miniso heres. woman who still keeps all her which to remove bitterness from or else tukis completely is fiction tresses, Pointing out the advan- his heart against those who would and turn it over? How oftentages of the new system, a London hang an innocent man and to lately we have set this enricus hatter observed: "It makes it make peace with his Creator.phetom Mrs. Spooks has easier for women to order hats by Mrs. Scott spent all day making only to make a sufficiently, sandal telephone!" ing a final and unsuccessful pleas figure of herself in the Pivore to the Governor for executive Court to find the path of litera- clemency, and she was en route to remedy temptingly s

Another pleasing myth ex- Springfield, Chicago, to bid a last to lur feet, Mr. X., die aflike ploded! There has long been a farewell to her husband when she resting afterglis Lumph in the in-tradition in America that Horace learned that the Chicago judge ternational hopscotch championship, Greeley's handwriting was more000000000 had been persuaded to grant ands it is surprisingly easy. id difficult.to decipher than that of stay of execution on the claim of delightfally profitable, to join the any other man who ever put pen Scott's father that his boy is runks of "them, writin' fellera,

to paper. According to one story insane as a result of the terrific | The novel which I have mentioned an employee discharged from the strain of approaching death and bars on its cover the name of a "Tribune" office used his letter of long fail incarceration. Judge July who has lately become famous dismissal for a whole year 18's David had been aroused from bed quite her iliretion." "You free railway pass on a line of early in the morning and persuad- would never give suspaud her of which Greeley was a director ed to hold a special court of novel writing but here is the book. Another tale is told of a com session to hear the father's plea. Howhers there must be positor who annoyed the other Scott claims that his brother and silent company of ghosts, ready ta

members of the printing staff by not he shot the clerk, and his re-write, for a posleration, auye's his constant boasts that he could fusal to broadcast a plen from his autobiography or a novel just go easily read the editor's copy cell over the radio urging his though to a cried off by the name They attempted to play a joke on brother to give himself up weigh-Over-in The-toole."

of its ostensible author.-Mark him by inking the feet of two ed with the judge in signing the

cockerels and setting them to stay of execution. The condemn- The Sargasso Sea.

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ed man is only 30 years of age, The expedition ship Arcturus, and as an actor he once played in with the famous scientist, Pro- a sketch written by himself in fessor William Beebe, on board, which he took the part of a man docked with hundreds of speci- scrawled on the first one in imitableRLA unjustly convicted of murder on mena of deep-sea life brought tion of Greeley's hand, and the circumstantial evidence who was from the mysterious Sargasso whole batch was hung on the finally pardoned, Scott is well Sea, which the ship has been ex-copy-hook over this man's case. known in Windsor, Canada,ploring Fifty of these specimens He calmly proceeded to set it up, where a few years ago he was have never been seen bfore. Inter- and it was not until he reached rated as a millionaire.

viewed on his arrival, Professor the last page that he found a word Beebe said that the Surgasso Sea that baffled him. He took it to of tangled seaweed, in which ships the editor's room, and Greeley There is to be no more oakum are said to have been lost, and the promptly declared that the word picking in the casual wards of Humboldt current are myths. He on which he was stuck was "un- what used to be described as work found only scattered islands of constitutional." houses, says a London paper. The seaweed. He hopes, however, for is pure fable. Writing in one-of And now we learn that all this very word "work" jars, on the great scientific results from his nerves of so many people to-day specimens. The Arcturus sailed Don C. Seitz, the businese mana- the American magazines, Mr. that workhouses in deference to last March to explore the Sargasso ger of the New York "World" their feelings are now known as Sea, concerning which so many and "institutions." The ancient prac-strange storica have been told. Pulitzer, says that Greeley's biographer of Joseph tice of picking oakum was a very It extends over an area of 3,000 much-abused penmanship was, monotonous and soul-deadening miles in Mid-Atlantic, stretching after all, not so bad. He has operation even for vagrants, as from the West Indies towards some of it in his own possession, casual visitors of this character Europe and Africa, and it has been and he finds it by no are known, without offence, in said that the water is so thickly illegible. The letters, it is true, Scotland: and it was inevitable filled with masses of yellow sea push forward, and the lines slant that sooner or later it must go. weed that ships have enmeshed in uphill, but they are easily, read. Oakum is, of course, the coarse them and been unable to extricate Mr. Seitz suggests that the com- part separated from flax or hemp themselves... It has also been said mon belief is due to the fact that in hackling, and once upon a time that terrible whirlpools have been for the last two decades of his life there was a great demand for it formed where the Humboldt, and Greeley wrote in a "Spencerian" for caulking the seams and decks Panama currenta meet. Professor age; e. at a time when the of ships, as well as for stopping Beebe has exploded these legends. popular script was in the copper- incidental leaks. There was. It is known, however, that the sea plate style which was then the every-justification in the heyday contains myriads of weird fish, ideal of all schools of penmanship of the sailing ship for regarding and it is understood that Professor in the United States. Perhaps, oakum picking as a task which Beebe has, brought back with too, Greeley would naturally come had to be done by someone, and him specimens of phosphorescent out better in a comparison with since it required little skill and fish, fish with huge, mouths; pro writers of to-day than with those was not attractive, some in truding eyes, and squids that fight of his own time, for the standard genious person suggested many with whales. He may also be able of penmanship to America has years ago that criminals under to throw light upon the stories of sadly deteriorated since the intro- going punishment and tramps ses serpents, octopi, and monsters duction of the typewriter. Why who indented on a workhouse for with tentacles powerful enough to Is it," said a New York editor to a night's lodging might well be set to the task. But now almost drag a ship down into the Cepths

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