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Show Embarrassing Situations WHY does a sober and sedato city genlle-umn genlle-umn start hatless to his place of business? busi-ness? Why should one of the most' dignified digni-fied and serious-minded of women go down town with her dress skirt wrong side out ? It is hard to say; but one can readily imagine imag-ine the dismay of the poor lady when 1 friend met her and called her attention to the spectacle she was making of herself. A .New Hnveu professor, whose tits of mental aberration wero as frequent as they were amusing, was one flay out in a heavy rain, with his umbrella lield high over hla head, when be m"t a friend who stopped him and exclaimed : "Dear me. professor, why don't vou put up your umbrella? You'll be drenched." "Put up my umbrella?" said the professor. pro-fessor. "It. is up." "Yea", It'i up, but it isn't open." For h'llf an hour or more the professor lonl been walking the streets with a closed umbrella hald above his head. At another, time the same scholar was riding downtown in an electric enr, and lost himself in a book he was readiug. Suddenly Sud-denly ho noticed symptoms of merriment among the other passengers. What could they he loughing at? The mystery was explained when he discovered dis-covered that, hnviug been annoyed by something some-thing between the plate of his artificial teeth and the roof of his mouth, he had removed Ilia teeth aud was holding them up to view between the thumb and linger of his hand! A justice of I he Supreme Court of the United States, than whom there never was a more sedate and dignified man, once appeared ap-peared at a dinner party with his handsome wic on WfOllf side out. A Boston WOmtn Of a dignified and even haughty mannor was trying on some very expensive wraps In a suit and cloak store, when she said to the clerk : "I do uot think that 1 will decide on one today." She had reached the door when a floorwalker floor-walker detained her nnd said: "I hen your pardon, madam, hut I shall lone lo ask you to remove dial coat of ours before you leave the atom.' |