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Show Do Yon Aet This Way : Did you ever notice how some men will walk up and down the floor when they are trying to convey the impression that their brain is on the rampage? They strike a line across tho floor from corner to corner, pull a lock of hair Over the forehead, jam their hands into their pockets and commence their march and their talk if there is any one to listen. I knew a man who expressed great joy, great sorrow, great rage and great every thing in this manner. I was duly impressed im-pressed with this magnitude of his intellect, intel-lect, and bowed in respect, until one ' day I saw him deprived of this mode of expression or impression. It happened in this way: This man with the powerful brain was striding up and down in a very small room. There I wa3 room for the lock of hair qn his fore-1 head, plenty of pocket room for hia hands, but that stride interfered with the comfort of two or three others in the ' room. Finally, in desperation, one of : the ladies said: "Oh, Mr. , do sit "down. You make me nervous." A gen- tleman said: "Let him walk. It is an ; -evidence of great intellect." The laugh that went up broughtintellect to a standstill. stand-still. He looked surprised, perplexed, nis hand went to hia brow and then he brightened up and said, "Well, then, I must have a cigarette." He lighted ona It certainly was a moat surprising bal- ance for intelligence. Chicago Herald. |