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Show AN EVERYDAY INCIDENT. His shoulders squared with determination, the man struggles for footspace In the surg, lng crowd. His eyes are set on the goal far, far ahead. , A woman blocks his path. Unheeding her protestations, he brushes her aside. Others crowd against him. others push him to one side and to the other, others are apparently determined that he shall not win his way, but with bead down and shoulders up be neither gives nor asks for quarter. On and on he forges bis way, until at last he brings up before the beauteous blonde creature who regards him with an expression of haughtiness haughti-ness mingled with wonder. We who can read her thoughts know that she is asking mentally what brings him here. ' He Is not cowed by her imperial glance. Taking from bis pocket a narrow piece of ribbon he exhibits It to her. Is it a talisman t Is It a signal? Is It a sign or a symbol 1 Listen. Ha speaks. "I want two yards of the same shade and width as this stuff. W. D. Nesbit. |