FADING INK NO LONGER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 120, 15 June 1901, Page 4

FADING INK NO LONGER.

ipf'WuNr, lady, who moves in the best Society, entered a \Vest-Ei»d phnto«rapher's Itudio not lono; and taking three litters out o; the IMjte seal-skin bag sha JMrried, requested Mb to photograph them fcrher. |t-The letters were the most tender and , Jrfftent loving missives imaginable. They ■ere addressed to the young lady herself. jThe photographer's ciwicsity got the better |f his judgment, and ke finally said: — iV Yon'll pardon me, biK this job is a little tansuat, isn't it?" k" Is it f" she said, smiling. E"lt strikes me so," he replied. n I don't pe why you want photographs of those ' litters since you have the letters themselves ' »•' Don't you ? Well, I do. Suppose the tetters were to be lost or burned, or desteoyed in some other way ?" Wouldn't the photo-raphs be destroyed J |hst as easily as the letters ?" | "Perhaps not, especially if they were not fept in the same place with the letters. put I'm not afraid of losing them by fire or to any such way as that. The fact is the Ink is fading, and in a short time it will be ■legible." , a girl for you who won't mfcs any Chances in the breach of promise business.

BKT WITH HIMSELF. A& stoky is told of a queer Rambler cA thf who was in the habit of making |jragap» with himself, and was correspond Cbgly cheerful or downcast and gloomy, win Or lose. In sporting parlance, he was conItantly "at horse and horse" with himself, ind he found in that double-headed cohBition the highest delights of anticipation. iWthough he lacked the determination to actually bet, still he haunted the pool and tSrd-rooms with his hands in his pockets, jingling his silver coin and transferring hit money from one pocket to the other, accord whether his right or left side won. 1 [e kept a regular account mentally with bis right and left hands, ana thus realised alf the excitement ol Letting without being subjected to the liability of dropping his wealth, tmt at the same time he was constantly on the verge of actually participating in the Ebut never could jnuster up Murage to t the money on the table, great scheme was to select a number fc a lottery, which he wojjld carry in his head; and he awaited the report of the drawings with feverish anxiety, which for jfeveral days previous t» the event almost prostrated him, so nervosa and worked-up pould he become. J One time he actually won the first prize in this way. The gain sfso mueh wealth, in his Inind, proved to be a shock he could not irithsland, aad superinduced an attack ol Wain lever, to which he suceombed.