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Rh ter-day is enough to bait a couple of mouse-traps with, an' if I should happen ter want any more later on I'll call ag'in.—Will S. Gidley in the May Woman's Home Companion.

The other day Mr. H. G. Wells had a transatlantic visitor. The sun was shining outside, but an occasional flying cloud brought a slight flurry of snow with it. But there was no fire anywhere, and the long French windows were flung open wide to the sea breeze.

Mr. Wells works regularly every morning at his writing. In the afternoon Mrs. Wells transcribes on the typewriter the morning's work, and in the evening both of them go over the day's result. It is often changed tremendously by the night's criticism.

"It's no use my promising to send 'copy' to you by Saturday," said Mr. Wells to an editor. "I must wait and lay it before my wife. She will know whether I can do it and she will see that I keep my promise."

Mr. Wells' marriage is a literary partnership as well.—From The Saturday Evening Post.

Considering the great utility of the bicycle and the pleasure and recreation it affords to countless thousands, its slow development is a matter of considerable surprise. This fact strikes us as especially strange when we remember that a two-wheeled affair very similar to the bicycle of today was in use over a century ago. This state of affairs may be accounted tor through the fact that the development of the bicycle was impeded by social and economic conditions. Fifty years ago, or even twenty-five, there was not the rush to get about that has become one of the characteristics of the present day. Consequently there was no demand for the bicycle. Development in railroads and wagons was being perfected, owing to existent conditions. This development came to a practical end, however, in the 70's, and the real development of the bicycle begins at that time. The pioneer in bicycle construction, in America, at least, was Col. Albert A. Pope, of the Pope Manufacturing Company, the makers of Columbia bicycles. It was he who gave the industry its first impetus, and it has been largely through his efforts that the bicycle has reached the place it occupies and is the perfect machine it is today. The Columbia bicycle, whether due to superior facilities for manufacture, or the care in and extent of experiments that the Pope Company has carried on, has always been in the van of bicycle construction. It has been the invariable rule that the Columbia has led, and the others have followed, but no innovation has been adopted, until it has been found by the severest tests to be an improve- I SIMPLY THIS

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