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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
THE MIDDLE AGED MAN. 
Something Said to Him by the Dentist 
Sets Him Thinking. 
“My dentist tells me,” said. the 
middle aged man, “that my teeth 
will last as long as I do, and when 
he said that to me I was at first 
pleased, because then it seemed to 
mean simply that I still had pretty 
good teeth, good for a long time 
yet, and I thought that some day 
I would say to him, sort of half 
jokingly: 
“<Toctor, you tell me my teeth 
will last as long as I will. About 
how long do you think my teeth 
will last ? 
“In that way, you see, by indirec- 
tion I am going to get a line on 
how much longer he thought I was 
likely to live, and as I thought that 
over I smiled to myself, thinking 
that was a pretty bright idea. But 
do you know that when I came to 
think it over again I didn’t ask him 
finally. I didn’t. 
“Because I think he knows. I 
have been going to him now for 
ears, and he knows my teeth 
hrough and through. He knows 
by them how old I am, and he 
knows their rate of wear exactly 
and how much longer they will last, 
and he could tell me how much 
longer I will last. But I haven’t 
asked him because I don’t want to 
know. I don’t want to know at all. 
“As a matter of fact, I think 
that when we come to my time of 
life we don’t much fancy dwelling 
on that, though there are times 
when it seems to intrude itself, 
when we realize that the years 
ahead of us are not so many as— 
well, as they were some years ago, 
when life seemed to us intermina- 
* ble. Any actuary could tell us what 
our expectation of life may be at 
the present moment. 
“We expect, of course, that we 
are going to live longer, to be the 
exception, but even if we should so 
prove we can count the years still 
coming to us without using many 
figures. We are getting to where we 
can see the end if we look that way, 
and I can’t say that I have any fear 
of it, but I certainly don’t find any 
pleasure in contemplating it. I'd 
rather stay. 
“So I haven’t asked the dentist 
because I don’t want to know. The 
thought of it does drift in on me 
once in awhile, but when it does I 
shunt it off and get busy and keep 
plugging and take a cheerful view. 
“I’m glad my teeth are good any- 
how,”—New York Sun, 
Turning Off the Gas. 
At a fraternal banquet in Wash- 
ington one of the speakers, getting 
back at the toastmaster, a clergy- 
man, for some of his witticisms, told 
the following: 
At a church service conducted by 
the. toastmaster a lady in the con- 
gregation suddenly remembered that 
she had left her dinner, a roast, in © 
the stove at home and had forgot- 
ten to turn down the gas. In her 
anxiety about her Sunday dinner 
she hastily wrote a note and handed 
it to her husband, a deacon, then 
engaged in taking up the collection. 
Mistaking the personal note for a 
church notice, the deacon carried it 
up and handed it to the minister, 
who, among other notices, read: 
“Go immediately home and turn 
off the gas.” 
When the laughter had subsided 
a member of the banqueting party © 
arose and said: “I would like ‘to 
suggest that the lady got her note 
wrong end foremost. Sending it up 
to the minister, she probably meant 
to say, “Turn off the gas immedi- 
ately and go home.’ ”’—Pittsburg 
Chronicle-Telegraph. 
Rooting House Plant Leaves. 
Perhaps to the amateur the most 
interesting way of propagating 
plants is that of rooting leaves. 
There are quite a number of plants 
with which this is possible. Echeve- 
ria, Rex begonia and gloxinia are 
among the common plants propa- 
gated by this means. To root 
echeveria the leaf is _ carefully 
broken from the stem and inserted 
in the sand. It takes about four 
weeks for it to start into growth, 
when a small bud will be produced 
at the base of the leaf. Sometimes 
this bud does not start, but still the 
leaf will grow. I know of one leaf 
which has been growing in a potfor | 
four years_and still has not made a 
bud.—Suburban Life. 
Making an Egg. 
“Grandpa, does hens make their 
own eggs ?” 
“Yes, indeed they do, Johnny.” 
“An? do they always put the yolk 
in the middle?” 
“They do, Johnny.” 
“An’ do they put the white stuff 
around to keep the yeller from rub- 
bin’ off ?” . 
“Quite likely, my little boy.” 
“An’ who sews. the cover on?” - 
This stumped the old gentleman, 
and he barricaded Johnny’s mouth 
with a large lollypop. — London 
Scraps, 
MANCHESTER, MASS. 
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