occasion; every inch of it had been examined with the idea that the
pin, falling from its proper place, had caught in the folds.

The surety company assigned one of its detectives to look for the
pin. From surface indications the loss had the appearance of a
theft--an "inside job." The company, however, asked that its
detective be allowed to search the woman's house itself. The request
was granted readily. The detective then inquired for the various
gowns which the woman had worn for dress occasions within the
preceding several weeks.

This line of investigation the owner of the pin considered a waste
of time, since she remembered distinctly wearing the pin to the
restaurant on that particular night, and her husband also remembered
seeing it that night and put his memory in affidavit form. But the
detective persisted and with the help of a maid examined carefully
those other gowns.

In the ruffle at the bottom of one of them, worn for the last time
at least a week before the visit to the restaurant, she found the
pin. The woman and her husband simply had been mistaken--honestly
mistaken. She hadn't worn the pin to the restaurant, and her husband
hadn't seen it that night. The error was unintentional, but it came
very near costing the surety company a large sum of money.

The benefits of a newly established clinic for animals
were demonstrated in a special feature article in the _New
York Times_ by the selection of several animal patients as
typical cases. Probably the one given below did not seem
to the writer to be sufficiently striking if only the bare facts