Etc. |

| Two young Germans of Berlin, neither |
|quite 18 years of age, had a perfectly |
|uncorking time aboard the White Star |
|liner Majestic, in yesterday. They were |
|favorites with the smoke-room stewards. |
|They learned later that man is born unto |
|trouble as the corks fly upward. Etc. |

| It was a long black overcoat with a |
|velvet collar, big cuffed sleeves, and |
|broad of shoulder, and looked decidedly |
|warm and comfy. It stood in one of the |
|large display windows of ----, and |
|covered the deficiencies of a waxy dummy, |
|who stared in a surprised sort of manner |
|out into the street and appeared to be |
|looking at nothing. Etc. |

| The bellboys put him up to it and then |
|Marcus caused a lot of trouble. Marcus is |
|a parrot who has been spending the winter |
|in one of the large Broadway hotels. Etc. |

| Lame, old, but uncomplaining, |
|remembering only his joy when a visitor |
|came to him, and forgetting to be bitter |
|because of the wrongs done him, meeting |
|his rescuer with a wag of the tail meant |
|to be joyful, a St. Bernard dog set an |
|example, etc. |

Some human interest stories begin, and effectively, too, with a direct
personal appeal to the reader; thus:

| If you've never seen anybody laugh with |
|his hands, you should have eased yourself |
|up against a railing at the Barnum and |
|Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden |
|yesterday afternoon and watched a band of |
|250 deaf mute youngsters, all bedecked in |
|their bestest, signalling all over the |
|Garden. Etc. |

| If you've ever sat in the enemy's camp |
|when the Blue eleven lunged its last yard |
|for a touchdown and had your hair ruffled |
|by the roar that swept across the |
|gridiron, you can guess