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Show Selfish Youth. "Youth is apt to be selfish," said Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, tho distinguished novelist, at a Matuchen oicnic. "Woman in her youth," she went on, "is especially apt to be selfish. I aever forget the story of the young man from Boston who stood in the center of Boston common in a downpour down-pour of torrential rain. "As he stood there, soaked to the skin, a little boy in a mackintosh accosted ac-costed him. " 'Excuse me, sir,' said the boy, 'but are you the gentleman who is waiting or Miss Endicott?' - " 'Yes,' the young man answered. " 'Well,' said the boy, 'she asked me to tell you she'd be here just as soon is it clears up.' " |