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gjWHIW vm ."' &- r. s It 3 MUCH TING-ALING! BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, A NICE LITTLE WEDDING Parke rsburg, W. Va. Miss Rae Aurora Archer 'doesn'-t believe in waiting too long at the church and she thinks "it's unlucky to miss" the train when you're going on a wedding trip. So when the minister who was to make Rae Aurora Mrs. Harry Butcher failed, to show up, the bride elect took the groom-elect by the arm and they marathoned away to a street car. -o WHAT DOYOU MEAN, CHESTNUT Something of a chestnut itself is the slang word chestnut. ,It'& more than 50 years since the actor, William Warren, first made a watchword' of chestnut Warren was acting in the drama, "The Broken Sword," in which a certain Capt Zavier tells many fishystories. It was when War ren, who "played the role of Pablo, interrupted" an oft-heard story with the complaint, "A chestnut, I know it was a chestnut, I've-heard the story twenty-seven times," that a-story told too often was first branded a "chestnut." "Have a minister at the 60th street corner," was the message she had telephoned ahead. The jninister was there. He "was boosted onto the car, the conductor cut out his "fares, please," and acted as best man. The bride and groom got their train, the minister almost got nervous prostra tion from the jar to his dignity, and the conductor may get fired for miss ing "fares" and "attending a wedding while on duty." . r SALE OF CHILDREN In selling their children, .the Japan ese, in the famine-stricken districts, have been following a custom that has not always beenj unknown in. Europe. In the year101T fang Ca nute found it necessary to issue an edict forbidding -English -parents to sett their children to the Irish as slaves; in accordance with their habit In ancient Egypt the unwa'nted :hild had-only to be exposed on'the. banks of the Nile to be adopted and pro tected by the state. " ' f o o One-half the population of France is engaged in agriculture. mfmStotetfr H E- v. ' - , .. ..,!- JH HaStirmrfikili m iifi ft & wtfYlMihiiffllhMiffflwWMMi t ? jfeidBfl IMMiAM tammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MMMMMMMMMHHMi