A SAFEGUARD
One cool day last June, just after the public bathhouses had been opened, a boy of ten or twelve came into school with his hair very wet. The teacher at. once surmised that he had been indulging in a bath, and asked him about it. He admitted the fact.
"Weren't you afraid you'd take cold?" she asked.
"No, ma'am, the water is filtered."
HOW SHE DEPARTED
At an employment bureau, an Irish girl was asked regarding her past record. She gave satisfactory replies to all the questions, but had no reason for leaving the place she had last held. Finally she was asked point blank:
"Now tell me, did you have any words with your mistress that led to your giving up the position?"
"Niver a wor-rd, sor," she was quick to respond, "niver a wor-rd, shure; Oi jist quietly locked the dure in the bathroom whin she was insoide, tuk all me things, sor, and lift the place."
CONCEALING HIS CONTEMPT
That doughty Pennsylvanian, Thaddeus Stevens, once displayed so much annoyance and disgust with the decision in a case on which he was engaged that he reached for his hat and started out of the court-room in the most informal way. Near the door he was stopped by the voice of the judge: