Judge-Jones answered an adver
tisement and sent a dollar for four
pairs of socks. When they ar:ived,
Jones looked them over and then
/ wrote the advertiser:
"Socks received. The patterns are
vile. I wouldn't be seen on the street
with them on."
Back came the answer:
"What are you kicking about?
Didn't we guarantee that you wouldn't
wear them out?"
Pole's Passion for Gambling.
The trial at Crakow of a Polish ad
vocate named Steinfeld who has come
to gFief t.hrouo;h g;a:biirig has been
the bccahion of some curious revela
tions about the hold which this vice
has on business men in Austrian Po
land.
Dr. Steinfeld's wife in her endeavor
to keep her husband out of temptation
tried the plan of never leaving him
out of her sight even when he went
to his office. The lawyer then made
a practice of going to bed early and
rising at 4 in the morning before his
wife was awake in order to hurry off
to the so-called "Monte Carlo" at
Crakpw, which he would find still ,in
'full swing at that hour. When stay
ing at hotels during the summer he
would arrange meetings with other
card players in the bathroom and play
there for hours, while he told his wife
that he was taking a cold water sure.
Rules for Talking Weather.
The English are as insensible to
their weather as they are to a 'vast
number of other things. They talk of
nothing else' but there is yet an arti
ficiality about the conversation that
denotes it to be a standardized topic.
