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TTTinTcOMFORT IN ABUNDANCE AND A WEALTH OF ARTISTIC INSPIRATION FOR THEIR LIFE WORK.
B^s. New Turk.)
A MEMORY CLASS OF ART STUDENTS STUDYING A MOONLIGHT SCENE.
i:CL!FFE ARTS AND CRAFTS COLONY.
E WHEELER IS STILL WRITING AND
■E OF EiGriTY-ONE.
m:\v-\oiuy daily tribune. Sunday, august 30, ioos.
UP IX MAIXE.
The stranger in town enters the postoflice
and sits down on a barrel. After a twenty
minute wait he addresses a native.
"Any huntin" around here?"
'•Some."
"Rabbits?"
"Ain't seen none."'
"Any tracks?"
"Plenty."
"Deer?"
"Nope."
"Fox?"
", Nope."
•Wildcat •.
"Nor>«!-"
"What kind
"Trolley."
(Exit stranger.)— Han-er'-H Weekly.
"DIVERS DISEASES."
One of the classes of small boys in Bethany
Sunday school includes several lads who live
•H-ar the Schuylkill River and who ar<- arcus
tomed to going swimming from the w harvos
below Smith street. The young woman who
teaches tin class was Instructing them la
Sunday in tin- mira< les cf divine healing
Among tin- passages she read to them was
Mark i. 34: "He healed many of divers dis
eases." This aroused such a loi.k of interest
ami intelligence on on.- little fellow's face that
the teacher turned t<> him and said, "Well,
Charley, can you tell me what i^ meant by
'divers diseases'?" "Sure, I can," was ih
quick reply, "they're the "bends' and t!:. 1 sores
mother says we'll gel i:' we •.:■< f-wimn ing i-i
dog days.* Philadelphia ttecord.
1 I\DICTI\ I l> \n.
"1 should think you would object to thai young
man."
"I do."
"Then why not tell your daughtei -•■'.'"
"Beeaus< I lon't propose t<. do anything to
further his suit," LouisvilU Courie: Journal.
CARROLL BECKWITH AT HIS HOME IN ONTEORA PARK.
A IIUJXCH (IHUSTKMXG.
New York Tourists See Qumnt
Ceremony "Sear Sevres.
Pa - August 18.
A party of tourists from New Fork, when
making a trip in a motor car through th en
virons of Paris a few days ago, suddenly came
ur°ri an unexpected scene It was the christen
ing of a baby at th> little village "f Les
Molidres, near Sevres. As- the American visit
ors permed highly interested In the proceedings
they wore invited to take part in th< • ■ r. :nony,
which was different from anything of the kind
to be met with at home. Tin following de
scription of the w3d funtti'-n. related by a young
American woman, gi\es a g<M.:l notion of how
such matters are arranged in France.
Pere Sinoet is the richest peasant in Les
Molieres. His neat little house lias fio.. r s of
polished elm. His garden is the biggest and
brightest in the district, not excepting that of
the cure. Pete Sincet had mentioned casually
in the village cafe" that Ins wife was z> -ir.g to
bring up his son's baby. Young Sincet, the
baby's father, kept a sausage shop in -'ivres,
which he was about to -••li a fortnighi hence,
and owing to this the christening was fixed for
the following Thursday, a day which with
young folk in Franc is a half holiday. In
the week that preceded th> ceremony the busi
est persons in th'- village were Men Si:;r>et,
the baby's grandmother, and !:•■• neighi r, the
mother of th< godfather. At a French christen
ing the leading role is- that of the ■ [father,
but when, as in the present < ■■. c, th;ir (tart is
to be played by a younj •r of only • ighi years;
tlw responsibility falls i:;."n his parents. Both
the sponsors of the Sincet baby were of tho
same t> nili r age, ;m<: required a great deal of
drilling. Pierre's own father Piern is the
nam«- of tin godfather- being in rather strait
ened circumstances, the customarj distribution
of bright new copper sous !<■ the village chil
dren had to be cut down to narrow limits, but,
fin the other hand. "dragSes," or sugai plump.
being fairly cheap, these were purchased on
a lavish scale. Ftorty pounds of the large,
white and pink sugar almonds were ordered
down from Paris, with plenty of blue and
white paper bags, hearing the date of the fes
tivity in beautiful silver lettering, in which to
distribute the sweets to villagers and guests.
The two regulation presents were duly pur
chased a silver handled ivory spoon f<>r the
baby and a silk embroidered handkerchief for
the baby's godmother. On the other side of the
garden wall th< baby': grandmother, who had
been a line cook in her younger ■!;....■=. was get
ting read> foi th< Gargantuan feast which
would end the ceremony, and which would he
talked of in tin village f"r months to come.
There woal ! be fifteen guests at this banquet.
None of tl. -• :i f t--. n will eve] : rget it.
Long befon '.', o'clock t!. church bell had
[..■■; rinjrins joyfully and persistently. The
great "i ii;< " of a christening : - in t!. 1 length
of th< bell 'i;;:ir.^ Th( ". mneur" i: compelled
t>. pull his bell a few times, l ;;t il !.• rings for
: i sun th- "' .i loi '.. a greal •■■■ and
thai hi ' ■ received a big five fran pii r
( onlinur)! <in rlxbtb pace
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