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Show . . Pemoline, but Meat. After your soup and fish you begin to talk with your neighbor. , She is an American married to a Frenchman, French-man, and she toUt you this funny little story anent a famous little beauty who had been betrothed to, her husband before sho ever met him. Said she: "I was a little under tbe weather, and so when she called I had to ask her to ; come to my boudoir. On my writing desk stood a picture of my husband one he had given me when I first met him and which ( was framed very gorgeously in silver. After sho had talked about hersolf a little while ; sho went over to this picture, gave it the ! most loving look and said: 'Ah, he had that j taken for me.' I Angry? Of course I was angry, but my , native wit didn't desert me. I waited for j a few minutes after saying. 'Did hef And j then I reached out and got a little case i from the table just beside me, opened it j and showed her the picture inside. It was the heads of my husband and myself taken together on our wedding trip, and then I announced: 'He had that taken for me.' I don't think she will bore me again." You couldn't help but laugh, it was such an intensely in-tensely womanly thing to do. St. Louis Republic. ' |