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Show Wliere She had the Advantage. Chicago Tribune. She was anxious to go to the reception and abe knew that he was not, so she set to work to cajole hiin into it. She bat down on a little stool at the side of liia (hair ami looked Hp into his face in her most bewitch-ing bewitch-ing way as she asked: "Are you tired to-night, dear?" "O, no." be replied as In-smiled down at her. "I'm lazy rather than tired." "But you're not to lazy to do something for me, nre you?" "( t rtniul v not. little woman," he returned. '.What ia it?" "Well, you know," she. said as she took one of liss hands and affectionately stroked 11, "the Van Dnzcns " "Georg, I that is to-night, isn't it'" he exclaimed. "Everyone will be there, Alfred," abe pleaded. "Yes, bnt hang it all Mabel, think of my dress suit?" "It will do, Alfred, " she protested. "Do?" he, i zelalmed. "B doesn't lit me now and there are spots on it." "U, well," she suid, "it isn't exactly a full dress atTaii' anyway. Something el " "Something else! Mabel you know as well as I do that outside of that I haven't a thing to wear." "Well, 1 have almost nothing to wear myself?" my-self?" she argued. "Of course, but you can appear that way ami I can't. Most women do." He reached for his cigar box, and she felt so insulted that she didn't speak to him for ten minutes. |