Villa-Range Ladies Home Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 3

THE LITTLE FOLKS, upon and nave contributed to tne WillTEClIAPEL CLUB. mural adornments. IYen the lire department has become interested, aid CHICAGO as for the members themselves they A. CURIOUS AJO UNIQUE INSTITUTION. The roltce of Different Cliles Combining in supplying luurai l'ccorations or Queer Sort A President AVho Is Much Respected but Always Absent Some of the Treasures.

'HE Whitechapel The Lazy Skates. Ekfttes like pair of Johnny's Are such mysterious things, A boy can fly with them almost As well as if he'd wings. Give them an icy sidewalk, Or frozen bit of pond, I think they'd go to Halifax, Or possibly beyond. And yet when I aBked Johnny, An hour or so ago, or more, As he upon his seven-league shoes Went skimming past the door, If he would do an errand Over across the town, Some lines above his pleasant eyes Gathered into a frown. And he began explaining It was so far to go 'Twould take so long it was so cold; He'd have to go so slow I think I've learned one secret That skates are swift and true At play but lazy, lax and loath When errands are to do.

Youth's Companion. Club, of Chicago, The question, when put to the house, was carried by the boy, who would Hoi don the shirt. "If you will not wear it," said his mother, "I shall send you back tc bed." Back to bed he went. He got no dinner. Afternoon came.

A neighbor went in to see him, his mother telling her that she had a bad boy up stairs. The boy lay there in bed wide awake, his little cheeks flushed with the situation, but showing no signs oi change of heart. "Don't you want to go to school asked the neighbor. "School!" was the reply. "I shall never go to school again "Don't you want to?" "Yes, but I can't.

I've got to stay here." "All your lifo?" "Yes'm," was the reply; "all my life. I shan't never get up again, prob'ly." What could a mother's heart do against so philosophic an acceptance of the termination of a career as this frwas organized by vcertain young newspaper men sense of hu mor, senso of the horrible, of good- mZX fellowship, of the ffpLzr grotesque and the arabesque, and of o. vn.rinfv nf ntlifir A Bright Boy. things chanced to bo well developed, and "who had a good deal of enterprise. The rented the rooms, held a meeting, A bright little bov and a good-look ing young lady came into an elevated car together -yesterday and commenced have become collectors with a mission.

talking about the tickets they had just The banquet-room of the club is What but kiss him at tea and go and buy the little bunch of pluck some downy little undershirts that would never tickle him? thrown into the chopper box. Their conversation attracted the attention of L-shaped and the long table round which the members sit lively session the passengerB near them. corresponds in shape. Above the table "How much do those tickets cost dangling from a pulley is a trombone asked the bov. A Dog with a which is performed upon when a pam "Five cents each ten cents for two," pered menial is required to bring in Keen Scent.

PARTY were seated in the office of a hotel in was the reply. That would be five for twenty-five some more of something, bkeletons, mostly of women, dangle here and there, and there are skulls each with cents, wouldn it, Jennie? an Illinois town Yes," said Jennie, and as she noticed one evening not the interest displayed by the listeners its ghastly history, among them that of the only colored man who ever com she concluded to show him off. "Now, tell me, how many tickets mitted suicide Chicagoi IS ailed on the wall half full of clotted blood is a could you get for a dollar slipper of the Chinese merchant lately Alter some Hesitation the answer long ago, whil-ing away the time with genial chat, when a big Newfoundland dog belonging to the night clerk woke up from came: Twenty. "Well, if you were to use two every and organized a club. In honor of the day, how long would the dollar's worth individual who has made Whitechapel last?" famous, Jack the Hipper was elected his comfortable nap near the stovo and This was a puzzler.

The little fel yawned dismally. I have got the low thought it over for a long time. president of the organization, but, as he has been, so far, absent from all smartest dog in tho country, tor Suddenly his face brightened, and he meetings and the club has not his defi money, said the hotel cierK. no can stopped tho showing oil by shout nite address, the Vice President per- ing: do anything but talk. A well-dressed, middle-aged stranger, who was a member of tho party, said "Why, until they Iorms the active lunctions ot management.

Under the constitution two aro all New York Times. I wish 'Spot was hero; hod show members of any profession may bo-long to tho club two bank presi Talkative Parrot In a Car. dents, two burglars, two preachers, you something worth seeing. He has got the keenest scent of any dog I know." "Ah, there, baby!" screamed the two actors, etc. And the ranks have been much increased bv additions to parrot hid behind a paper which Being pressed to tell about "Spot," is an membership under this rule.

Willie had placed over the cage the stranger continued: It is in interior decoration, as already The old maid looked startled, says a Exglish setter. I paid $500 for him Philadelphia paper, and a grin ap- i nnn said, that the club comes out strong, A l-U' 41 Zt rxe vu. xca ux uLmu Lm- ing prairie chickens in Iowa last fall, sengers and stopped at a well-known hotel at a certain town in that State. One even Oh, mamma! croaked the bird. Tho old maid glared at each passen ing a traveling man irom JNew lork killed by highbinders in San Francis- ger, nigniy indignant.

A II Tl dropped into the hotel ofljco. He took a fancy to 'Spot' and wanted to pur Where did you get that hat, I dJiko co, a donation irom tne Dan rancisco police force, and there are the shackles to know went on the irrepressible chase him immediately. Of course I worn by Martin Burke from Winnipeg bird. laughed at tho proposition, and at the and a lot of anarchist relics irom the The clerical passenger looked up in same time took occasion to expatiate it 1 Jilrb. Mim" tmmmmm police force of Chicago.

There are knives and pistols with which crimes upon tne dogs wonderiiu sense ot alarm and then felt his hat in hasty confusion. Every one noted the action, and a ripple of suppressed were committed. There aro hideous Chinese masks and slung shots, and laughter went over the car. sand-bags, and anv amount of such Ah, there, whiskers! paraphernalia of red murder. The vis The clerical man leaped to his feet itor is told the story of each, and tho and frowned at a smooth-faced young verv marrow in his bones changes its man near tho front.

"I won't be insulted he cried. composition. smell. He can find anything that you are a mind to hide from 'I'll wager twenty-five dollars he can't find my handkerchief in this house if you'll let me hide it where I wish to," replied the New-Yorker. "I immediately covered tho money, witli the proviso that Spot should have free access to every nook and corner of the house when in search of the hidden article.

"The New-Yorker left the office, and was gone for a half hour. Spot remained asleep on the office floor, near There is sonio debate among out "Dine ding: two more fares out of siders as to what the ceremony of initi the company's pockets." ation into the Whitechapel Club con The conductor Hushed and hastened sists of. Tho obligation is said to be into the car from the back platform. something extremely sulphurous, yet "Who said that?" he demanded. and by this allusion is not made to the actual exercises are said to be any Willie looked as demure as an angel.

convivial habits exclusively. There thing but tedious or complicated. a i my chair. When the New-Yorker re- are several well-known artists among One of the initiated was discovered out: 'Spot, this gen turned I called the members, and they have contribute later to have the imprint of a bloody precipitate departure from the car. 4..

4f 4i. ed sketches which are, to use the ver At Bond street Willie lifted the pa- hand upon his shirt front, but there is current a theory that the ritual is nacular, simplv paralvzers. There are per, grabbed the cage, and got on tne flexible, and that in many cases all one or two portraits, drawn carefully car. ceremonies, save those of a purely con Then the passengers tumbled. vivial nature, are dispensed with.

Saturday night receptions of tho club He Was Forgiven. have -become social events of note, and A Jjewiston nttio boy declared a in no instance, it is assorted, has any philosophic independence, and accept one present at these reunions failed to tleman has lost his handkerchief find it at Spot jumped up, wagged his tail, and went over to the New-Yorker. He smelled around the man's clothing and shoes for a moment and then started upstairs. We waited patiently for ten minutes, and then a chambermaid came down in a hurry to inform the clerk that an awful racket was going on up in the garret. As the clerk was posted he said: 'All right, I'll see about Just then Spot came downstairs with a handkerchief in his mouth.

But I was the maddest man for a minute you ever saw. The dog's beautiful brown coat was inky black witli soot. Didn't I swear You see, that infernal New-Yorker had hid the handkerchief in an old-fashioned drum- ed the consequence in so matter of return eventually to lamny ana menus. fact a way last week that it may make The record of the club in this respect a story, even if it is not so very fanny, is as pure as filtered water. No bones says the Jjewiston (Me.) Journal.

are bleaching in the alley. The Whitechapel Club, it need ills motner aressea mm up in a new flannel shirt and sent him to school, hardly be explained, is not an organiz The shirt irritated his cuticle or, in ation for gam, though incor other words, he itched. When he came cyvitttiivvjiK-r iii porated under the State law. It has a seal and its blood-red letterheads are home that night he was cross, and very cross for a small bov. and he declared curiosities.

It is a great institution. he and the shirt had parted company stove in the garret, and then shut tho Chicago Times. forever. The next morning, as the stove aoor. in getting tne uoor open 'Spot' had overturned the stove, but prepared to dress him the international display of scien for tho mother sohool, shirt.

tific progress to be made this year in tho boy drew the line at clude the Electrical and Industrial Ex he crawled in just the same and got the handkerchief. I gave a colored boy five dollars of the stake money to wash Spot' off." The party of listeners looked at ono hibition at Edinburgh and tho Exhi said he; don wanter wear that shirt." bitiou of Botany and Microscopy at from imagination, of the absent but A brief debate ensued, which the honored President, and there are other Antwerp. At the latter will be cele brated the tercentenary ot the com boy appeared to have formed his opin- another in silence, and the night clerk ion and. to have decided to stick to it, whistled softly to himself. sketches as striking.

Tho police force of thi and other cities have been called pound microscope..