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Show He Was Prepared. Blanche King, the actress, is always preaching caution whether she practices prac-tices it or not is, as Kiplii.g says, another an-other story "If everyone was only as cautious as a man I once knew," she? said Ihe other night, "nobody would ever go broke. lie called at the money-order window of the local post-office post-office and asked permission to send an order for $100 to the 'old country.' Then the man with the money gave his own name as payee. " 'I'm going over next week,' he volunteered, vol-unteered, 'and I want to have the money waiting for me on the other side, so that I can give it to my mother.' "'Why don't you take it with you?' asked the clerk. 'You would save 40 cents.' " "Woll, suppose the ship sinks and I drown?'" Young's Magazine. |