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Show Eating lu Presto Time. An orchestra in a restaurant where I whs dining ihu other evening struck into that always beautiful Intermezzo of "Ca Valletta Rusileuna." Thoy played it very slowly and the head waiter fidgeted nnd gnawed his .tip. At last hu disappeared in the direction of the musicians, and a moment later the intermesso began to gallop along, presto, prestissimo, and at thu end of It the orchestra struck up u two-step, The head waltor camn back relieved. "We can't have slow music Here, madam," he said to me, when I asked htm about It. "Wu'd ttuverget through and I wants to get off early. People e its loo slow wheu thoy plays slow music." And when I looked around I saw that knives, forks aud spoons were moving to thu tempo of thu two-step. Everybody was hurrying. The head wuiter knew what he was about, |