eaver.

* * *

_UPON JULIA'S ARCTICS._

_Whenas galoshed my Julia goes,
Unbuckled all from top to toes,
How swift the poem becometh prose!
And when I cast mine eyes and see
Those arctics flopping each way free,
Oh, how that flopping floppeth me!_

* * *

"We are all in the dark together," says Anatole France; "the only
difference is, the savant keeps knocking at the wall, while the
ignoramus stays quietly in the middle of the room." We used to be
intensely interested in the knocking of the savants, but as nothing ever
came of it, we have become satisfied with the middle of the room.

* * *

A GOOD MOTTO.

I was conversing with Mr. Carlton the Librarian, and he quoted from
memory a line from Catulle Mendes that seemed to me uncommonly
felicitous: "La vie est un jour de Mi-Careme. Quelques-uns se masquent;
moi, je ris."

* * *

In his declining years M. France has associated himself with the bunch
called "Clarte," a conscious group organized by Barbusse, the object of
which is the "union of all partisans of the true right and the true
liberty." How wittily the Abbe Coignard would have discussed "Clarte,"
and how wisely M. Bergeret would have considered it! Alas! it is sad to
lose one's hair, but it is a tragedy to lose one's unbeliefs.

* * *

Chicago, as has been intimated, rather broadly, is a jay town; but it is
coming on. A department store advertises "cigarette cases and holders
for the gay sub-deb and her great-grandmother," also "a diary for 'her'
if she leads an exciting life."

* * *

We infer from the reviews of John Burroughs' "Accepting the Universe"
that John has decided to accept it. One might as well. With the
reservation that acceptance does not imply approval.

* * *

It is possible that Schopenhauer wrote his w. k. essay on woman after a
visit to a bathing beach.

* * *

We heard a good definition of a bore. A bore is a man who, when you ask
him how he is, tells you.

* * *

The sleeping sickness (not the African variety) is more mysterious than
the flu. It will be remembered that two things were discovered about the
flu: first, that it was caused by a certain bacillus, and, second, that
it was not caused by that bacillus. But all that is known about the
sleeping sickness is that it attacks, by