preference, carpenters and
plumbers.

* * *

Slangy and prophetic Merimee, who wrote, in "Love Letters of a Genius":
"You may take it from me that ... short dresses will be the order of the
day, and those who are blessed with natural advantages will be at last
distinguished from those whose advantages are artificial only."

* * *

Happy above all other writing mortals we esteem him who, like Barrie,
treads with sure feet the borderland 'twixt fact and faery, stepping now
on this side, now on that. One must write with moist eyes many pages of
such a fantasy as "A Kiss for Cinderella." There are tears that are not
laughter's, nor grief's, but beauty's own. A lovely landscape may bring
them, or a strain of music, or a written or a spoken line.

* * *

All we can get out of a Shaw play is two hours and a half of mental
exhilaration. We are, inscrutably, denied the pleasure of wondering what
Shaw means, or whether he is sincere.

* * *

WHY THE MAKE-UP FLED.

[From the Dodge Center Record.]

Mr. and Mrs. Umberhocker returned yesterday from an over Sunday visit
with their son and family in Minneapolis.

They are in hopes to soon land them in jail as they did the hog thieves,
who were to have a hearing but waved it and trial will be held later.

* * *

"It isn't hard to sit up with a sick friend when he has a charming
sister," reports B. B. But if it were a sick horse, Venus herself would
be in the way.

* * *

"Saving the penny is all right," writes a vox-popper to the Menominee
News, "but saving the dollar is 100 per cent better." At least.

* * *

_MUSIC HATH CHAHMS._

_What opus of Brahms' is your pet?--
A concerto, a trio, duet,
Sonate No. 3
(For Viol. and P.),
Or the second piano quartette?_

Sardi.

_Our favorite Brahms? We're not sur,
For all are so classique et pur;
But we'll mention an opus
With which you may dope us--
One Hundred and Sixteen, E dur._

* * *

BRAHMS, OPUS 116.

I care for your pet, One Sixteen
(Your choice proves your judgment is keen);
But in E, you forget, see,
It has two intermezzi;
Please, which of these twain do you mean?

Sardi.

Which E? Can you ask? Must we tell?
Doth it not every other excel--