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Show Sympathy. Slum stories are usually Interesting, and so the last one told in one's hearing hear-ing is set down herewith: "A friend of mine," said Charles Keene, "does a good bit of work at a mission In a locality better known than liked. We will call her Miss Blank. Recently she arrived to find a woman in whom she had been much interested in a frightful condition all beaten up by her other half quite beyond be-yond recognition. After some bathing bath-ing and patching up the woman was resting, when she suddenly looked up to Miss Blank and asked her if she had never been married. Miss Blank said she had not. " 'Gee,' murmured the beaten-up specimen, 'it must be fierce to be an old maid.' " |