maisters and Che**.
"A considerable proportion of i
players are clergymen," a minister si id
the other day. "If you doubt this, em?
mit in the newspai>ers nml the week?
lies the column devoted to questions
md answers regarding tin- game and
to chess tournaments. It will amass
cou the number of 'Bee's' and 'li.
D.'s' that you will come upon there.
'hess is. you se-, a game too weighty
md serious for most people, who like
n their amusement to unbend. Hut
.his very weightiness, this very seri
msness, is what makes it so particular*
y attractive to ministers, for they can
mt afford to unbend in the.'.- play to
:hfl same extent that others can; bencs
.-hess for them rattier than pingpoiig."
-Philadelphia Press,
A Tolstoi Protest.
Tolstoi ls completely out of pntlence
leith modern literary taste. "Tlie Ig
lorance of our educated circles," ho
leclaros, -is such that the truly pgrcat
Junkers, poets and prose writers,
irhetber of antiquity or of the nine
senth century, aro regarded as stale
md out of date, Incapable of satisfying
he high and relined demands of tho
?resent genesathm. We either patron*
v.e these masters or frankly dismiss
hem with a contemptuous smile.
"In philosophy the last word is found
n the humoral, crude, Inflated, lucoher
mt stuff of Nietzsche."
Comparing Families.
Harold?Hy uncestors were all hon
st, but they were not stylish.
"Thut's nil right. My ancestors were
Jl stylish, but so fur as I can learn
hey wouldn't pay their debts."?De
rolt Free Tress.
Short and Informal.
"Hiivo you had a housewarming in
our now dwelling yet?"
"Yes; my wife tired the redheaded
ook the other day."?Chicago '.Tib?
uc.
