make a lunatic ashamed of himself.

"A drummer, who travels for a large Eastern jobbing concern, was once
entering the establishment of a firm which always bought heavily
from his house. One of the proprietors was just going out. They came
together in the doorway, and, before they could pass each other, a
rival salesman slipped by and sold the other partner a large bill of
goods.

"Congress ought to pass an appropriation for the purpose of teaching
people how to pass each other. If the surplus energy and brainwork
consumed in this task under present methods were applied to some more
useful purpose, a great reform movement would have been inaugurated."




THE MANNISH WOMAN.


"I don't want to achieve a reputation as a 'knocker,'" said the
Observer, knitting his brow thoughtfully, "but, I nevertheless, aver
and maintain that the national evil of this great land is the mannish
woman.

"No, I don't mean the woman who can earn a living in some professional
pursuit that has hitherto been monopolized by men. Why, with our male
milliners, dressmakers, cooks, and what not, she has been driven to it
by man himself. Even the servant girl has become a thing of the past,
and the 'help' of the present day wears trousers,--not metaphorically,