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w 'yS" !"' jf agents for the, United Statesrcpmmis siotf on industrialTelations. "Thrift as. 4. nalidnal ideal," says4 Miss Sumrfer4 "willnhave to have itff, inception irthernonje-. It will have to, be taught 'at the' mother's knee be fore it can become a principle of WHEN IT'S ALIMONY OR COIN, SAYS LADY .American .living, -The-American wo man Has never learned it.' The Euro pean woman knows arid practices it, lnstlnctivelyf.fQr it has become irfher rent in' her "after generations of frugal-Trying rleople haye" gone be Tore'her."' . o- ANTI-FAT, ME FQR THE OF EMBONPOINT ' Brooklyn, W. Y. John Schmidt,' Brooklyn-cptton' merchant, bought his wife"abirthday present the other day. ., It A:6st him $9,000.75 the, $9,000 is for alimony and the75cejits for a bottle of anti-fat A bottle of lilllanrussell stuffv guar anteed to keep-the figgur sylplike and willowy, seemed, to be Mr-ISchmiflt's ' notion of a. nice little gift for "wife." He incidentally ridded the suggestion WHAT DO. YOU MEAN BY COAT v " BUTTONS? As the man who wears a frock coat neverfcears a sword, there's no. gopd reason why he should have rows of buttons" at the back of bis coat. It was" different in the days' when "knighthood was in flower" and every gentleman of the frock-coat class .carrjed a rapier the buttons wjere placed pn his yelret cloak, to that if. she lo&ther waistline she'd surely lose his love. Mrs. Schmidt is fair, somewhat pastvforty and more interested in. Mexican war oiews than in the beauty page. Anyway, she ex pected .a pair pf lace curtaips for a pirthday presenti Slo-she took friend husband and-heV-trou'b'les'into court, and the'JJua'ge opined thatf'a lady's figure' is, her own affair, ard anti-fat is no fi( present to offer a.wife on her birthday, , m " hold hs sword belt in .place.' Sword belts ent out of fashion ofoaks gave waytq CQats, but the" tailor of today, as well'as. thg tailor of centuries ago, ornaments the back of every frock or cutaway coat" with a double row 6f buttons. It takes surflrght about 8'2v minutes to' reach us, the liht pf the neaiest Star 4 years avd 4 months. frrtiir niirrririfr