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Show Forestalled. District Attorney J. F. Clarke of New York was talking about the recent re-cent kidnaping cases. "Kidnapers," he said, "are apt to disappear now. They have become too unpopular. Why, a kidnaper is as unpopular as a widower. "Widows, now, are very attractive, but about a widower there Is always something uncanny, something almost clammy I mean, of course, from the matrimonial point of view. "I know a widower who is thinking of marrying again. He thought he'd broach the matter delicately the other morning to his little daughter, so he cald: " 'Ah, my dear, how I did love your mother!' "But the little girl gave him a suspicious sus-picious look and snapped: " 'Say "do," not "did," papa.' " |