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Show Wise Bridegroom. "Alert?" repeated former Vice-President Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks when questioned concerning one of his 'po-' - litical opponents. "Why, he's as alert as a Providence bridegroom I heard of the other day. You know how bridegrooms starting off on their honeymoon sometimes forget all about their brides and buy tickets tor only themselves? That is what happened to the Providence young man. And when his wife said 'to him, 'Why, Tom, you bought only one ticket,' h answered without a moment's hesita tion: "By Jove, you're right, dear, I'd "forgotten myself entirely!'" Lippin-cott's Lippin-cott's Magazine. |