Her lips were silenced by a kiss and a fervent, “You little fraud of a sweetheart!” _Interludes_ The rich man speaks about how he spends his money, while his friends speak about how he made it. * * * * * You could tell the old-time hero by his medals; the modern one is known by his collection of loving-cups. * * * * * The spendthrift sometimes does more good with his money than the philanthropist. * * * * * The fact that figures won’t lie probably accounts for the invention of statistics. * * * * * A political job differs from any other kind, inasmuch as you work before you get it, instead of afterward. * * * * * The miser holds on to his own money; the millionaire to other people’s. * * * * * _His Cogitation_ “Well, then, amongst others, there’s the man who habitually talks to himself,” ruminatingly said the Pruntytown Philosopher the other evening. “If he does it in order to listen to himself, he is a fool; if he does it to avoid listening to his friends, he is a sage; and if he does it to save his friends from listening to him, he is a philanthropist.” * * * * * _The Safe Side_ REPORTER—Were you quoted correctly in that interview in the morning papers? SENATOR—Come around the day after tomorrow. How can I tell until I see how the interview is going to be taken? * * * * * _An Inference_ “My wife and I have lived happily together for twenty-five years.” “Now, tell me, old fellow—in confidence, of course—which one of you has had the other bluffed all this time?” _The Constitution_ BY FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS _Author of “The Kidnapped Millionaires,” “Colonel Monroe’s Doctrine,” “President John Smith,” “Shades of the Fathers,” etc._ The practical man values a house not by its antiquity, but by its conformability to modern standards of construction and equipment. If he purchases an ancient structure he is not required to pay an added price because of its lack of plumbing, its absence of gas and electric lighting fixtures, and he is not entranced that its roof leaks and that its cellar is damp and moldy. This same man, if he gives the subject a passing thought, will likely assure you that the Constitution of the United States is a perfect document because it is more than one hundred years old. It also is likely that this is the extent of his information concerning that famous document.