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Show 1 be Value uf a Look. My room mate's lucceia In the recitation recita-tion room was so great thai only hi most inliinate friends ever suspected that be was not the most distinguished genius of the whole fifty or more lu the class. "How do you do it?" I asked on day. "Will you promise, If 1 1st you In. not to do it youreelf?" he responded. When I bad sworn not to infringe upon his system, he explained: "You see Professor Pro-fessor Dlank is always looking out for the fellows that don't know anything of what he is talking about and coming down on them with a perfect ' noser. When they flunk, he is as- ploased as if the trustees had doubled hi aalsry. - So in hi classes I always look as Intelligent as poiblo-thls way." And he tlliv minuted Ills face with a look which an actor might have envied. . "Of course he thinks lie cau't get meou that, an i the qiiUMtiou got along to tome man who knows tice a much, but wboe face belie him. On tho rure occasion when 1 do know lometliliig, I look lik this" he wrinkled his krow Into s slightly pussled exprcftiioo "and be I down on m In an lnUiit. I ruftramir Danh's ambition is Jut the other way. Ho wants, in his blwased good nature, tc give everybody a chance to shine; so for him I reverse the expressUm, and look intelligent when I know something and despairing when I don't. In this way I make ray little learning far from a dan gerous thiug. See?" Kite Field's Washington. |