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Show QUITE A HOPELESS CASE. From the New York Mafl and Expresa " j The brilliant Miss Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler tells an amusing anecdote of her experience at a dinner party with a man who would not listen. This man took her in to dinner, but otherwise paid little attention to her.lShe tried to make conversation, and spoke of things military, apropos of the recent South African war. Suddenly he turned to her and -said: "Is your husband a soldier, by chancer She answered: "No, I'm not married." The entree had barely departed -into the realms of the unknown when, with an ingratiating smile, the conversation having now merged Into the range pf things political, politi-cal, he said: "I suppose your husband Is a politician?" "No," she repeated, somewhat louder, -"I've no husband. I'm not married." vToward the end ef , the dinner there occurred that momentary mo-mentary pause when a hostess is engaged en-gaged in collecting the eyes of her guests.. He took advantage of It With a. glow of Interest he turned. "Does your husband happen to be here tonight?" to-night?" It . was . too much for Miss Fowler. The signal of departure wai given.' She rose. "I really don't know." she said. "He rnay be. One never can tell what may come of these little parties par-ties !" : |