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Show Beans and Blushes. The conversation of a little group ran 'the other evening on the odd replies that people often make through misunder-standing misunder-standing other people's remarks; and one of the company told a story of a humiliating humil-iating circumstance of this sort of which he was once the victim. It happened quite a number of years ago, when the hero was a younger man than he is now, and when it was the fashion, if one had ladies at the theatre, to take them to Copeland's to supper afterwards. This young man had taken two young ladies to the theatre, and when ho entered the restaurant with them it was with the determination to do the wildly magnificent magnifi-cent thing, and so distinguish himself before the ladies and all the other people in the place, that young men usually have on such occasions. But before he ordered he wished to consult the young ladies' preference. lie bent toward them and remarked softly: . "What shall it be?" The tall young waitress who stood bo-' bo-' tind tho chair must have heard the lart word and caught a familiar sound in it, for she spoke up, quite at the lop of bar voice and loud enough to be heard all Over the restaurant: "We're all out of beans!" And it was quite out of the young Man's power to get a publio reputation for magnificence that night Boston , Transcript. |