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Show Her Mother Wanted the News. "Tho habit of moving the Hps when reading is a good deal moro common than people suppose Dut speaking of that habit, a queer thing happened recently re-cently on a train on which I was riding. rid-ing. I was sitting by n mnn who moved mov-ed his, lips whon ho rend. While ho apparently mado no sound ho really shaped his lips for ench word. Ho wns reading n newspaper and bo was I. I was seated next to tho atslo After wo had been reading a little while I felt some ono touch my arm Looking around I saw a littlo girl seated by a woman across tho nlslo wns smiling nt mo. "'Plenso, sir,' sho said, 'would you hold your papor lower?' "Of courso I was surprised nt tho ro quest nnd nsked her why. " 'Decnuso, sho rejilled, 'my mamma hero, who Is deaf, wants to be ablo to watch your friend's lips so she car get tho nows. Sho can tell what ho li rending that way. It hurts her cyci to read print on a moving train."' Kansas City Times. |