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Show Where She Lived. ' It is strange how difficult some persons per-sons find it to answer a simple question directly. Even the fact that time, other people's time, is valuable does not disturb dis-turb their enjoyment 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 less patiently to hear. The following conversation took place not long ago in a busy savings bank. ' , .- " .; " ' Said the cashier, "Where do you live, madam?" :.! "Well, I just came op from the Cape. My sister's just been married, and her husband has a fine place down there. He's doing well, is Amelia's husband, and I'm glad of it They Bay"- ; , ; "Excuse me, madam," interrupted the cashier, "I wish to fill in this blank with your residence." t ' "Well, I was going to tell you. She wanted me to go down and visit her at the Cape. So I've been down there a month. She wenldn't hardly let me come up today. Sho said I must stay a week longer, anyway. But I thought" Again the official protested, "What ia your address now?' "As I was saying, I am going to look for a boarding place. I don't know yet where I'll sfay. I 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 sternly: "Where have you been staying? That address will do." "Why, at my sister's, down on the Cape, I nover make long visits, but I've been there more than a month, Bhe being just married and thinking a sight of me." "Yes; where does your sister live?" "Down on the Cape" "Whereabouts on the Cape? What town?' "Athensville." And the cashier and four customers who had been waiting breathed a sigh of relief as she turned away murmuring murmur-ing that Athensville wasn't really a town, but that her married sister liked living there very well. Youth's Companion. |
