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Show A WOMAN'S SEARCH REWARDED. Borne years before he died, ex-Congressman Henry G. Burleigh, who once said that the most perfect gentleman he knew was John G. Carlisle, because the latter, when Speaker, recognised a Republican Re-publican upon the floor "as readily as he did a Democrat, got. into an argument erith a man about the characteristics of women. This man waa a confirmed misogynist and attempted io belittle the splendid qualities of the fair sex. "Tell me, sir," he cried, "whether -woman ean persist in anything long enough to succeed t" "I know one who succeeded by persistency per-sistency after nineteen years," replied the ex-Congressman. ''It was on her wedding trip that brilliant success crowned her long efforts. She and her husband were in a Pullman sleeper and she occupied the upper berth, while her 220-pound husband held down the lower one. All was quiet when her low, mellifluous voice was heard: 'John, dear, are you a wake I' 44 'Yes. dearest: what is it!' " 'Why, John, X have at last found I what I have been looking for for nineteen nine-teen years. Guess what it ist' ' 'Can't imagiet dearie. Please tell me.' ; " 'I have at last found a man under mv bed.'" Leslie's Weekly. |