to the station. He therefore addressed a passer-by in the best French he could recollect from his college days, mispronouncing it with great emphasis. He voiced his request for information as follows:

   "Pardonnez-moi. J'ai quitté ma train et maintenant je ne sais pas où le trouver encore. Est-ce que vous pouvez me montrer le route à la train?"

   "Let's look for it together," said the stranger genially. "I don't speak French, either."

   The traveler in the Blue Ridge Mountains made his toilet as best he could with the aid of the hand basin on its bench by the cabin door and the roller towel. He made use of his own comb and brush, tooth-brush, nail-file and whiskbroom. The small son of the cabin regarded his operations with rounded eyes, and at last broke forth:

   "By cricky, mister, I wantta know! Be ye allus thet much trouble to yerself?"

   It is quite possible to trap clergymen, as well as laymen, with the following question, because they are not always learned in the Old Testament.

   "If David was the father of Solomon, and Joab was the son of Zeruiah, what relation was Zeruiah to Joab?"

   Most persons give the answer that Zeruiah was the father of Joab, necessarily. That is not the correct answer. The trouble is that Zeruiah was a woman. And, of course, David and Solomon having nothing whatever to do with the case.

   There has been much controversy for years as to the proper definition of the much abused word "gentleman." Finally, by a printer's error in prefixing

    un

   to an adverb, an old and rather mushy description of a gentleman has been given a novel twist and a pithy point. A contributor's letter to a metropolitan daily appeared as follows:

   "Sir—I can recall no better description of a gentleman than this—

   "'A gentleman is one who never gives offense unintentionally.'"

   The airman, after many hours of thick weather, had lost his bearings completely. Then it cleared and he was able to make a landing. Naturally, he was anxious to know in what part of the world he had arrived. He put the question to the group of rustics that had promptly assembled. The answer was explicit:

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