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Show MERE MATTER OF EVOLUTION. Successive Steps From Kitchen Tablo to Hall Mirror. Mrs. Compton looked at her patient but bewildered husband with an ex- "jjH presslon of good-natured superiority. "Dear mo, George," she said, cheerful-ly, cheerful-ly, "I don't sco the use of my trying to explain to you, but I'm perfectly willing to do It, or course. "I did Intend, as you Bay, to buy a kitchen table, and I camo homo with JM a hall mirror. But It was an abso- lutely natural change. "T Hi "First I looked at kitchen tables. 1 Then the clerk called my attention to BJ tho kitchen cabinets, with drawers BJ and everything. Then I said bow much BJ they looked like bureaus, except that BJ they had no glass. Then he showed. Hj mo one with a glass, and then he said Bfl ho had such a pretty bureau, It 1 HJ cared to look at It. "So I looked at that, and it was B pretty, but tho glass was rather small. HJj So then ho showed me a dressing caso with a nlco glass mirror, and I said what nlco glass It was. And then bo U Bald, 'If you want to see a flno plcco ot glass, let mo show you ono or our new hall mirrors.' "And of courso, Oeorgc, you can un- BJ dcrstnnd that when I saw that beau- BJ tl fill mirror I had to have It; and HJ you know you don't llko me to run HH up bills In new places, nnd I hadn't' HI enough to buy a kitchen table, too, so now Isn't It clear?" Youth's Com- panion. HJ |