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to take care of her little child she should have addocl to her A. B, the further degree of Q. M. qualified mother. THE ABILITY OF HUMOR Cousin Bill Taft tells this one on himself: "I was eifroute to Philadelphia one day this week and had about 20 minutes to wait until train time. Consequently I went into a neighboring drug store to buy a shaving stick. The clerk stared at me as he wrapped it up and then remarked: " 'You're the dead image of Taft." " 'Please don't emphasize the dead part of it so,' was the reply. 'I feel very much alive.' This story leads an Eastern paper to remark that "but for the saving grace of a sense of humor, Taft might be a morose old man, withdrawn from the world and wrapped up in dreams of the past." It is Cousin Bill's pronounced good nature that has made him loveable and usable. And it is really a big quality in any man it doesn't render blind to the practicalities. Jt explains why Taft could remain fat and happy and unsophisticated through a long career of political job-holding. It is the fellow who can see the humorous in the hard scramble for wealth who lasts longest. Perpetual seriousness begets chronic morose-' ness, narrowness and egotism. A laugh softens disaster and a joke takes the sting out of defeat. There's nothing much sadder than a big man gone stale. Tie Cousin Bill Taft to a post with, a ten-foot rope and he would kick some holes in the ground with his heel, tear off a pant button, take out his jack-knife and start a game of golf with as many holes as the rope would permit. It is his biggest and finest quality to come up smiling and he'll be round and large and ruby and probably useful, after much abler men of his day have dried in their shells, figuratively speaking. o o "Yes, so many revolutions, you know." N, Y. World. He Yes, I was once within two Fards of a tiger. She Where? He At the Zoo! o o DIZZY "f should think the South Amer cans would be an awfully dizzy peo ple." "You would?" Mrs. Nuwed (to dear friend-) What's the secret of getting a new frock from hubby after he refuses once? Mrs. Wiley If at first you don't succeed, cry,-cry, cry again!