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Show AN ARTIST IN SILENCE. J. Pierpont Morgan wa- almay a silent man, and he would sometimes champion the silcut with a story. "Old .lohn Bate, an upholsterer." no the story began, "wa: renowned for his silence! People who had been hi customers for a generation hail, many of them, never heard a word from him except ' 4'Ood morning. Five dollars. Thank you. Good day. Old John, in fact, cultivated silence as a genius cultivates cul-tivates his art. "A natron one day said to J'thn: " 'What's the best kind of mat tresef ' ' Hair. ' was the reply. 1 ' The iiatron , some t went v v ear-later, ear-later, had oerasion to buy another mat tress, and again he asked: u What's the best kind. Johaf' 'Cotton. " Cotton f the patron ened. 'Why. vou told me twenty yean ago that hair was the best.' "The old man gave a quaint sigh. " 'Talking has always been mv ruin he said." Exchange. |