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Show j SHE WAS PLAYING SAFE. ! 1 It was the first vaudeville perforin i ancc the old colored woman had ever seen, and she was particularly excited , .over the marvelous foats of the magi . cian. But when he covered a news- . paper with a heavy flannel cloth, and 1 read the print through it she grew a i little nervous. He then doubled the ' cloth and again read the letters ac- - curately. I This was more than she could stand, I and, rising in her 'scat, she said: "I'm goin' home! This ain't no place for a woman in a thin calico dress!" Clipper. |