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Show Didn't Concern Him. 1 "Sir," tho sad-faced man said to tha heavy-sot man who was smoking a long, black cigar nnd reading a newspaper, news-paper, "would you allow your boy to smoko cigarettes when ho grows up?" "I'vo novor given tho question a mln. uto's thought," ropllod tho other. "What! Nover pohdored upon tho effect upon tho constitution, to say nothing of tho mind of your son, to allow him to smoko tho deadly thlngB?" "Nover n thought no, sir." "And will you allow him to drink?" "I hnvo novor thought about It." ' "Oh, can such things bo? Aro you letting your child grow up In tho midst of temptation without speaking a fatherly fa-therly word to " "Look hore, sir! You mean woll, I suppose, but lot mo toll, you that I've been a confirmed bacholor for tho last 20 yenra." |