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Show Wis Already Supplied. The dealer In a Japanese art store was displaying to tho visitors his many treasuros tiny Ivory figures, beautiful beauti-ful laces and embroideries, India Ink prints, china and what not Ono man picked up a curious looking contraption contrap-tion a long cane of bamboo, with nn Ivory hand, fingers half curved, fastened fast-ened to tho end. "What's this?" ho asked tho Jap, with some show of Interest "That." returned tho slant-eyed one, "Is," hero ho masticated a few syllables, syl-lables, choked, sniffed, coughed and llnally swallowed, and went on, "or In the English a back-scratcher." " 'llack-scratcher,' oh?" remarked tho American. "Ver' nice; ver prlttee," went on tho ollro-sklnned merchant. "You want It?" his head slowly. "1 never buy noth-In' noth-In' I don't need. S'long's there's door facln's to my house, I don't have to buy no back-scratchers," and he turned to admire something else. |