An absent-minded doctor was called in to see a child two years old suffering from convulsions. After a careful diagnosis, he prescribed as follows:
“Nervous excitement. Avoid all violent emotions; abstain from wines and spirits; avoid excess at table and other indulgences; travel a good deal; go frequently to the theater. Beware of reading a certain class of novels.”
SMALLEST RACE OF PEOPLE.
The inhabitants of the Andaman Islands are the smallest race of people in the world taken as a whole. The average height of a full-grown Andaman is three feet, eleven inches, and the average weight less than seventy pounds. They are very warlike, and, as they throw poisoned spears with marvelous accuracy, it is not at all strange that travelers do not care to encounter them.
HER FATHER HAD NO OBJECTION.
“How does your father seem to regard my coming here?” anxiously asked Adolphus of little Bobby, while Maud was upstairs, getting ready to present herself.[Pg 53]
“I guess he don’t care nothin’ about it,” replied Bobby carelessly.
“So he has no objection, eh? But what did he say, my little man?”
“He said if Maud was a mind to make a fool of herself, why, let her.”