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Show A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Comedian Joseph Jefferson Declined a Unique Money Making Proposition. Several jweeks ago when Mr. Jefferson was playing Rip Van Winkle at the Walnut Street theater he found among his mail one morning a letter from a furniture fur-niture man. The epistle, which was written on a letter head adorned with a large cut of a folding bed "closed" and "opened," read as follows: Mr. Jefferson: Sir I taw you play Rip Van Winkle last night, and I have a proposition to make to you. When the curtain goe3 up on the third act, and you rise all stiff and sore after your long sleep, you might say a few words something like this: "Oh, how stiff I ami If 1 had only slept last night on one of Blank's patent folding beds, warranted 6afe, durable and comfortable, how much better I would feel this morningl" I think it would bring down the house. Now, I am willing to pay you well for this, of course. Let me know what you think of it. The owner of Blank's folding bed has not yet heard from Mr. Jefferson. Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Record. |