"Young gentlemen," said the college president, notwithstanding the fact that he was addressing the students, "young gentlemen, hazing must be stopped and stopped at once. It has injured the college more than any of you could guess. Only last week a gentleman declined to give us $1,000,000 because there was so much hazing Hazing is a bad thing financially."

"How about morally?" asked the student.

'"Aw-aw, really, there may be something in that, but—aw—the—the point has never come up, and I—aw—am not prepared to answer. But the point is worth considering."—Chicago Journal

Dr. Herbert Claiborne of New York, something of an inventive genius and noted for good looks as well as for medical skill, suffers from cold hands in the winter. And nothing will warm his fingers except hot water, a hot fire or a hot potato. He can be seen almost any frosty morning marching along at five miles an hour with a hot potato in each overcoat pocket and his hands grasping the tubers. He has two big potatoes piping hot wrapped in silk handkerchiefs for this purpose. "They will keep your hands warm for hours unless you happen to sit on 'em," he says. "They are great for a football match or when you go sleigh riding."

A celebrated anatomist states that the waists of English girls are growing smaller and those of American girls larger.

Scientists are theorists in nine cases out of ten. Their word remains undisputed for want of evidence.

This, however, is too important a statement to overlook. What we want are facts.

We are at present making a careful examination to ascertain the truth. We are doing the thing personally to be sure.

Several hundred New York girls were first selected. Tall handsome blondes were picked out. Each one was examined separately. The arm was exclusively used—except in some cases where both arms were necessary.

This is preliminary report. We have been so busy that up to date we have not had time to get the exact figures.

Speaking generally, however, we can say that the waist of the average American girl is all right. I t yields readily under pressure, and will sustain about 200 pounds to the square inch.

Divorces are, happily, rare in society circles. Separation by mutual consent, however, grows more frequent every year. Every one has upon his or her visiting list husbands and wives who never meet if they can help it, but between whom there has never been an open breach. Incompatibility of temper is the usual cause, and the reason for that is, one imagines, the still common custom of encouraging the younger generation to marry before they have begun to approach the years of discretion.—London Throne

A correspondent writes: In Quetta some years ago I had occasion to go early one morning into a miscellaneous store kept by a Parsi, who also kept a liquor bar. As I entered the shop I noticed a mouse reeling across the floor, and I remarked to the shopkeeper that the mouse seemed to be hurt, but his reply astonished me.

He said that the mouse and several others that invested his shop were confirmed drunkards. During the night the regularly drank all the liquor which remain in the glasses which the soldiers had used in the evenings for their drinks.—Madras Times

"A knowledge of drawing on the part of men would have the effect of increasing their good looks," said a lady teacher of that art recently, "and it would make presentable many a man whose appearance is not calculated to excite admiration. It sounds an odd combination, drawing and beauty, does it not? Nevertheless it is a fact."

To the natural request for an explanation she replied:

"The first principles of drawing are geometrical lines and curves. These lines and curves occur in everything. A potter in criticizing an ugly shaped jug will most probably tell you that its 'lines' are bad. Most of those who dabble in drawing and gain certificates merely learn to make these lines and curves without acquiring the slightest knowledge of their effect.

"Here is an example. Just take this pencil and raw a face. Oh, anything will do! But be sure to make two straight lines over the eyes for eyebrows. That's it. See how serious that expression is?

"Now rub out those straight lines and in their place make two curves with the ends upward. That face has an expression of intense surprise, hasn't it? If you had made curved eyebrows with the ends down in the first instance, the difference between the two would have been more striking.

"Well, the human face has its 'lines,' and by studying them our men could improve their appearance. The most elementary expedient is to adapt the mustache and beard to the lines of the face, and I must here tell you that 'lines' in technical language include both straights and curves. Such as expedient is within the reach of all, and there is no need for me to remind you that the whiskers make a tremendous difference in a man's appearance.

"Take a man with a aquiline nose, clear cut features and a broad brow, then imagine this individual with a long, drooping mustache; why, it accentuates the whole 'droop' of the face and spoils it. Such a man should have a small pointed beard and a mustache with ends pointing slightly upward.

"The exact opposite is also frequently met with. A man with feature that have a distinct upward tendency will wear a mustache with ends that are turned up and so long that they seem to be thinking of joining the eyebrows. Men with mustaches that display an inclination grow long ends think that those ends should be permitted to grow and that they must be trained upward. That strikes them as the only proper way. But to suit the lines of the face those ends should in many cases be cut off, and in others they ought to be trained downward.

"Whiskers, again, are allowed to grow whether they suit the face or not. Often a fine, vigorous, manly face is contradicted by an insipid little mustache worn over a firm, clear cut mouth, in the expression of which it does much to alter. It is quite a pity to see such fine lines spoilt in that way. The wearer cultivates the hirsute appendage merely because it is the fashion for men to have a mustache. You talk about women being slaves to Dame Fashion, but in the matter of your whiskers you men are worse slaves than we are to dress!

"Now don't run a way with the notion that I advocate general shaving. Some men who are clean shaved ought not to be. The lines of their faces simply demand that of which they are depriving their countenance very morning. It requires a strong, very intellectual face to do without beard or mustache. The latter is an absolute necessity for hiding the bad lines of some mouths that would if left totally uncovered spoil the whole face.

"Women as a rule are more careful of their lines and choose hats and other things to match. Men also study their dress more than the hair on their faces, but a knowledge of drawing would correct many mistakes in hats, collars and other masculine accessories.

"In the matter of color we rather pass from the domain of drawing and mere 'lines' and trespass into the realm of painting, but I cannot resist saying that both men and women, especially the former, would be all the better looking if they know more about the blending of colors, because they would not then choose hues which do not harmonize with their complexions. I have known a man with red hair to wear a red tie because red ties were fashionable!

"We are all going in for art and the beautiful nowadays, and you men are not handsome as a body. You could make yourselves more handsome be attending to such easily managed details as I have pointed out. See that your sons learn drawing."

A human face clock is on exhibition in a St. Petersburg shop window. The hands are set in the nose, and everything spoken into the ears is repeated by a phonograph through the mouth. From the latter feature it is unnecessary to state whether the face is that of man or a woman.