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Show Practical Diplomacy. "Papa," inquired a young hopeful of some seven summers, as he looked up from a book he was rending, "there's a word here which puzzles me diplomacy?" "Diplomacy, my. son," nnd the ohl man smiled paternally as he said It, "means this: Doing or saying precisely precise-ly the right tiling at precisely the right time." "Ah!" retorted the young hopeful, "then I guess I exercised diplomacy last night." "How, my son?" inquired the fond parent. , "Why, I rolled Johnny over into my place just before inn came in with the castor oil, and then back again just j before she came to the other side." |