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Show w"her She Uved. It is strange how difficult some persons per-sons find It to answer n simple question directly. Even the fact that time, other people's time, is valuable doe not disturb dis-turb their cnjoynieut in chatting of various vari-ous things which have no bearing on the two or three words which their Interlocutors Inter-locutors wait more or leas patiently to hear. Tho following conversation took place not long ago in a busy savings bank. Said tho cashier, "Where do you live, madam?' "Well, I just came up from the Cape. My sister's just been married, and her husband lias a fine place down there. He's doing well, Is Amelia's husband, and Tra glad of it. They say" "Excuse me, madam," interrupted the cashier, "I wish to fill In this blank with your residence," "Well, I was going to toll you. She wanted mo to go down and visit ber at the Cape. Ho I've been down there a month. She wouldn't hardly let me come np today. She said I must stay a week longer, anyway. But I thought" Again the official protested, "What is your address now?" "As I was saying, I am going to look for a boarding pluce. I don't know yet where I'll stay, 1 want a place to suit me for all winter. And I can't decide" She paused a minute for breath, and seemed rather surprised to be asked sternlyt "Where have you been staying! That address will do." "Why, at my sister's, down on the Capo, I never make long visit, but I've been thero more than a mouth, she being just married and thinking a sight of tiw." "Yes; where does your sister liver "Down on the Capo' "Whereabouts ou the Capo? What townr "Athensvills." And tho cashier and fonr custom era who bad been waiting breathed a sigh of relief as she turned away murmur-tag murmur-tag that Athonsvlllo wasn't really a own, bnt that her married sisU-r liked living thero very well. Youth's Companion. |