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Evening Star, Issue 11893, 22 May 1903, Page 4

A Good Concern.—" You may hitch your •wgon to a star, hang the ocean on a torado to dry, wipe the dust from a cyclone with a safety razor, wear the aurora borealis for an evening gown, twist the sky into an omelette, set an earthquake to rag time, unbuckle the belly-band of eternity, and open up the sun and moon as health resorts, but you cannot find another insurance company as those writ! en by the Company." This is a specimen of an insurance -company's advertisement in an American newspaper. The Three Women.—ln a village lived three women who were asked to join a woman's club. "Alas," sad the first woman, "I have lived but twenty years, arfd I have read but few books save t*iose of a frivolous character. Ido not know enough to join a woman's club." "But I," said the second woman, "have lived twenty-five years, and I have read Buskin and Emerson and much of frowning. I know enough to join a woman's club." " I,'" said the third woman, " have lived thirty years, and I know too much tojpig-f dab/