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Show I Candor. 1 Controller Grout of New York, was talk-I talk-I lng about candor. . "Candor Is all right in Its place," ho I said, "but out of placo It Is unspeakably dreadful. "This fact was impressed on mo the I Dther evening at a dinner. "A llttlo girl, tho daughter of tho hostess, host-ess, at tho end of this dinner, was brought in for the dessert, and placed beside a maiden lady of about CO. "Tho maiden lady was a llttlo sentlmon-itaL sentlmon-itaL Sho talked In a sentimental vein to the child, and anally, leaning forward, aho jiuld: " 'How protty your oyoa aro, dear. " 'Fank you,' said tho llttlo girl. . "Tho lady laughed. Then sho eald: ' " 'Can you toll mo tho color of my eyesr ' "Tho llttlo girl answered promptly, in a Iclcor voico audlblo half a mile: , " 'Green middles, yellow whites, and wed jjKlms,' " |