One of the most annoying results of eye strain is the baggy condition under the eyes, which is very disfiguring. To restore the condition of the skin tanning acid is generally effectual, using 20 grains to an ounce of glycerine. It is applied ot the puffiness, with a soft camel's hair brush night and morning.

The marrying age is steadily receding, and it is quite within the range of probability that 41 will be regarded in the future as the equivalent of the present 21.

This is partly due to the keenness of the struggle for existence; a man desires to attain a position before marrying, and he finds the years slipping by with disturbing rapidity while he is climbing the ladder.

Both men and women too, fear that they may be deceived an many enter into partnership with one who will turn out to be undesirable.

So they will spend the earlier years and then the glamor of his single life will wear off. They will have gained experience enough to enable them to judge character with fair accuracy, and then will thus be less fearful of being "taken in."

They will fell that after all, it is better to settle down with a partner. And then marriage will come in middle age. The love making will not be the same, but it may well be a more solid fire—quieter, but more enduring.

A Bala woman has been much annoyed by the trespassing of a neighbor's chickens, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

The other day she tied with stout thread to large grains of corn cards where one was written:

"Please pen us in better. We are spoiling Mrs. Dash's garden."

She scattered these contrivances over her lawn. The chickens, trespassing as usual, ate the corn, and from their mouths that night the spoke the woman's message to their shocked master.

Thereafter they trespassed no more.

Marvelous as it may seem, New York women have lately discovered a way of fastening their waists up the back without calling for assistance. Though not lacking in generosity, they became so tired of the outstretched palm of the chambermaids that they now feel that it is time to guard their pockets. The Gotham woman discovered that if she put her blouse on hind side before, with the sleeves hanging free, it could be fastened from top to bottom, with the exception of the hooks at the neck and then turned around and the arms slipped into the sleeves without unduly straining the fastenings. So simple! So strange that no one had thought of it before. Or is it possible other women have used the plan and meanly kept it to themselves? Will the waist that buttons in the back have a new lease on life?

Peter Rindernecht, of Camp Bailey, Pa., is still talking of his narrow escape from an infuriated deer, which he finally killed in an unusual manner.

While the other members of the camp were away on a long drive, Pete, finding things slow in camp, decided to do a little hunting on his own hook.

Back of the Hinkle farm he jumped a large buck and fired a shot which made a flesh wound. The angry deer, lowering its prongs, made for Pete, who dropped his rifle and climbed the nearest tree.

The deer pawed at the tree, snorting with rage, and Pete thought it a fine joke until night began to draw near with the buck still on guard.

Pete yelled for help, but his cries only echoed through the ravines. It was very cold, and the hunter found that it would not be long until he would release his hold on the branches and fall to the ground.

A desperate plan was determined upon. Pete weighs close to 280 pounds, and when the buck, walking around the tree, was directly beneath him, the hunter doubled himself up like a ball and dropped.

He landed right on the buck's back, breaking its spinal column and crippling it so that the work of killing it with his hunting knife was easy.

In making love to another man's wife it is no longer good form to do it secretly. It is quite proper now to go to the man and advise him beforehand of your action. Thus there will be no misunderstanding and nothing to fear. You will be doing the manly thing. The man himself will be pleased. And his wife will be grateful to both of you.

To eat asparagus gracefully take lessons from some good sword swallower. Raise the stalk in your right hand very slowly until your audience is with you, then lean back your head, open your mouth to its fullest extent and put the stalk down as far as it will go. Then remove it with a nail puller.

When the friend you are calling on in the evening offers you a cigar, and you light it and discover at the first puff that it is made up of equal parts of cabbage and oakum it is no longer correct to tell him it is one of the best you have ever smoked. Instead of this, first throw it out of the window calmly before his face, and then throw him after it. Unless his nature is too hardened, he will understand and treat you better next time.

If you are paying for a pew in church and find it already occupied just because you were late on account of your wife not being able to fit her hat on, leave the church quietly and without fuss—only saving the time after you are once out for praise and thanksgiving over the fact that a woman's hat is, after all, of some use.—Tom Masson, in Judge

A phonographic device that will call the police by adds a new hazard to the dangers of the burglar's profession. When an attempt is made to force a window or door with which the proper connections have been made an electric current operates a phonograph in the garret. The machine calls up central and asks for the police station. The phonograph then informs the officers of the robbery, giving street and number, and repeats this information as long as the receiver is down. Meantime, the intruder, all unconscious that an alarm has been rung in, virtually walks into a trap, and if the call is promptly responded to is soon in the lockup.