Some autograph hunters' .ricks are
revealed in Hie Connoissen.'. Oeorgo
Eliot was taken in by a lady who en
listed her sympathy in fictitious social
work. Another wrote to Ruskin a
touching letter of supplication which
elicited no reply. She wrotf
a tone of almost piteous
but still silence. Then sin
another name and address,
i gam ra
atreaty,
adopted
became
the bogus secretary of an imaginary
art club for young students in a prov
incial town, and invited Mr. Ruskin
to come down and deliver an address.
The simple-minded author wrote back
a long, delightful Utter, asking to bo
excused from giving an address un
til the club had made same progress,
but imparting much admirable coun-
set
lies of guidance.
Bereaved Mother's Grief.
The automobile rushed down the
roue huge! gigantic, sublime. Over
the fence hung the woman who works
hard and long her husband is at the
cafe and she has thirteen little ones
(a:; unlucky number.) Suddenly upon
the thirteenth came the auto, unsee
ing, slow him, and hummed on. un
known. The woman who works hard
an 1 long rushed forward with bands,
hinds made rough with toil, upraised.
n it 'id
,1
rood
to a
. a giantess. Then she hurled
v?se weds of derision, of de
ntón Oieu! And I'd just
him!" l.e inert, Paris.
de Votantes.
