| To properly view an eclipse to its full, a party of several good spirits should get together. Whether an eclipse of the sun or the moon, each should take a glass and smoke it. A great deal depends on the quality and character of the glass. Some glasses are much more certain to reveal an eclipse than are others. If the first glass when properly smoked does not show the eclipse, try another and a stronger one. It is very probable that this glass will show the sun or the moon in the throes of an eclipse. Still another glass will show two suns or two moons. The third glass is likely to show several moons and several suns, fixed stars and those that need fixing, comets and milky ways, sky-rockets and pin-wheels, all combining to eclipse the finest display of Fourth of July fireworks ever projected by the mind of man. And when the beholder of this mighty spectacle wakes up during the afternoon of the following day and sees but one simple unadorned sun doing business in the whole expanse of the broad, blue heavens, he has a feeling of pity for all those who retired early the night before and missed the social, spiritual, and educative uplift that comes from viewing an eclipse under just the proper conditions. | Health Hint: Young ladies desiring more color in their cheeks should try brushing the same with a two days' growth of bristles on a masculine chin. |
| SUNDAY | WHO DARES? |
| Some men are brave, no doubt, in war, But the iron-nerved rip-snorter Is the fellow who rides in the sleeping-car And refuses to tip the potter. | |
| MONDAY | |
| TUESDAY | |
| WEDNESDAY | (1890) Improved excelsior machines invented. |
| Same date—Breakfast food introduced. | |
| THURSDAY | |
| FRIDAY | (1828) Daniel O'Connell, elected to parliament, refuses to take the oath. |
| Same date—First and only time on record a politician ever refused to take anything. | |
| SATURDAY | |
| NOVEMBER | |
| The man behind the man in front constitutes a pull, not a push. |
HELPFUL HINT FOR DECEMBER
| Now, do not show your resentment toward those who forgot to send you presents last Christmas. Send each of them a little remembrance—but be sure to select something that will force them to spend forty or fifty dollars to take care of it or to surround it with the proper atmosphere. This is much better than mailing a post card and letting it go at that. | Health Hint: Fatigued brain-workers desiring to engage in some restful employment should try hair-dressing. The barber does most of his head-work with his hands. Household Hint: Do not mistake the cat for a sofa pillow; those who sit on the cat, thinking she is a cushion, will rise again. |
| SUNDAY | A SACRED THOUGHT |
| "Oh, had I the wings of a dove!" sang she And I thought (and I guess it was pat) If she gets them, on next Sunday morning we'll see The two of them pinned on her hat. | |
| MONDAY | |
| TUESDAY | |
| WEDNESDAY | (1906) Terrible disaster throughout United States—many magazines have hot-air explosions, shattering scores of reputations. |
| THURSDAY | |
| FRIDAY | (1897) Thousands invest in Keeley motor stock. |
| (1898) Keeley motor discovered to be a fraud— first Keeley cure on record. | |
| SATURDAY | |
| DECEMBER | |
| All things come to him who goes after them. |