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REGRET to say, madam, that your little son betrays every symptom of degeneration."

"But, doctor, is there no hope for him?"

"I fear not. I understand that he has read every book in his Sunday-school library."

ISS MENTAL PABULUM, of Boston, who is an enthusiastic yachtswoman, has given orders that, during the ensuing yachting season, the crew of her yacht, the Trigonometry, should refer to "a spanking breeze" as "a maternal zephyr."