a young lady," infoed the blond mustached one
to a clerk at McClurg's. "She has both the 'Rubaiyat' and 'A Tale of Two
Cities.' What do you advise?"

O. B. W.

* * *

"I never could get to Detour, either," communicates Jezebel, "but
recently, on a train, I passed through Derail, which seems to be a
fairly thriving village, although some of the houses need paint."

=> _Old readers detour here--_

* * *

YES, YES.

Sir: Herbert F. Antunes is a piano tuner in Evanston.

L. L. B.

* * *

=> _Resume main pike._

YE STUFF.

Sir: "Yee Laundry" reads the sign over Yee Hing's washee at Deming,
N. M. Wherein ye olde world is joined with ye olde English.

C. P. A.

* * *

"Henry Ford is poverty stricken intellectually, morally, and
spiritually."--Comrade Spargo.

Hint for Briggs: "Wonder what Henry Ford thinks about?"

* * *

Powell's taxicab service in Polo, Ill., offers "a rattle with every
ride," and for the life of us we can't imagine the kind of car employed.

* * *

Speaking of Detour and Derail, "I wonder," wonders A. T., "whether in
your travels you ever got to Goslow."

* * *

DATED.

Sir: From the Blue Book: "Pleasant View. Saloon on left corner. Turn
left. Then follow winding road."

A. C.

* * *

YOU KNOW THE TUNE.

"No girl," say the rules of Northwestern University, "must walk the
campus after dusk, unless to the library or to lectures, or for purposes
of learning."

_I'm a merry little campus maid,
The campus sward I rove,
Picking Greek roots all the day
And learning how to love._

* * *

Considering "A Treasury of English Prose,"--prose that rivals great
poetry--Mr. J. C. Squire came to an interesting conclusion--that "there
is an established, an inevitable, manner into which an Englishman will
rise when his ideas and images lift into grandeur; the style of the
Authorized Version."

* * *

Auguste Comte listed five hundred and fifty-eight men and women who
could be considered great in the history of the world. An English
writer, striking from the list names that he had never heard of before,
arrives at the "asto