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Show When She Understood. "Aren't the modern dances charming," charm-ing," said Mrs. De Montmorence to the colonel, as she lorgnetted the young people on the floor. "Do you hesitate?" hesi-tate?" "No, madame," replied the colonel, "I may be said rather to fluctuate." And later in the evening, when she saw him bobbing up and down in the Lame Duck like a speculative stock in a panic, the lady knew exactly what he meant. Here' a Fine Idea. "Please, ma'am," said the little girl from the. next door, "mother wants to know if you will lend her your new mechanical tune player this afternoon." after-noon." "What an extraordinary idea! Is she going to give a dance?" "No, ma'am. We're tired dancing to it. She wants to keep it quiet for a couple of hours 'so that the baby can sleep." Evasive. "Will they charge me much, do you think, to get this advertising picture in the papers?" "Oh, I think it very likely you can gat it in at cut rates." Not His Business. "Conductor, this man is stepping on my feet," said the lady passenger. "I have nothing to do with the traffic traf-fic regulations, madam," was the reply. Drink Denison's Coffee, For your health's sake. Ins and Outs. "Did you run out of gasoline?" "I did, and the motorcycle policeman police-man ran me in." |