SECURE FROM INTERRUPTION.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVII, Issue 4514, 11 April 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

SECURE FROM INTERRUPTION.

'Mr. L found that his time was frittered away by idle callers. This was how ha secured himself from interruption. Walking down a street one day a well-dressed woman in a shop caught his oj - e, and, wondering why the lady tamed so long, he approach.ed,and discovered that the "figure was a dummy. He passed on, meditating first about the figure, then, by a natural association of ideas, about women in general, and next about the politeness of men to women ; and then an original idea struck him. Ho was sure that no one would attempt to interrupt him while he seemed to bo talking to a lady. If a quicksighted fellow like himself could mistake a dummy for a woman? why should not other people? No sooner said than done! The figure was made and placed in his office. Mr. L. worked with his back to the door and his face to the figure . People came and looked and waited, and walked, away. The thing acted like a charm, and the few shillings for calico, buttons, hooks and eyes, and a few oddments were amply repaid by the saving in his valuable time. MORE ELEVATING. Senator Chauncsy Depew, the famous American speech-maker and storyteller, in a recent speech at Saratoga, U.S.A., _ denounced certain suggested changes in the United States Constitution. He said tho change would be pure vandalism, and he fired off the inevitable story to emphasise his point. Tom TunkLn, ho said, was travelling in Italy with a friend. One clay, in Naples, Tom said: “ Look here, we've done Naples thoroughly. Let’s go on to Florence.” “Oh, bother Florence,” his friend growled. “There’s no cafe life there, nor nothin'.” Toni turned on him severely.- “Look here,” ho said, “a man tours Europe for something a bib better than cafe life. I’m going on to Florence if I have to go alone. I’ve GOT to chip a chunk off Michael Angelo’s great statue of David for my souvenir collection!” DIDN’T LOOK MUCH. In a recently published diary of Li Hung Chang, tho great Chinese statesman, ho gives a record of his visits to Europe and America. One story of his experience with a Now York reporter is rather amusing. “Ha wanted to know,” Li Hung Chang says, “how many wives I had, an d after I told him I had as many as I needed, ho was impertinent enough to ask how manv I required. The question did not please me, bub I did not let him know it. for that would have been a satisfaction to him which I did not wish to give. “And so I asked: ‘How many wives have you?’ “Ho answered quickly; ‘None.’ “ ‘Good!’ I said : ‘you look as if you might ho able to take care of just that number I’” Reporter: “And we understand that you aro a self-taught, as well .as a selfmade, man?” The Perconage: “I ham, sir. At twenty-one I knew nothink. Then I get to work, and at tweaty-two I’d taught moself all 1 knew.”