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Show HAD MATTERS OF MPORTANCE Miss Fannie' Visit to the City Full of Business of One Sort or Another. "I suppose, Mies Fannie," said Mrs. Harris to her newly r.rrived guest from the country, "that you have a good many errands to do here In the city? Some shopping, perhaps?" "Well, I'd like to look round the , ?tores some, and see II thinga are much handsorcor than the things vie have at the Waybrldge stores, but 1 don't knew as I'll do much buying. I've always traded In Waybrldge, and I guess I always wilL But I've got some errands that I'm quite set on doing. For one thi'jg, I want to visit the art institute, and look at the Venus with the broken arm and the Victory without a head that the lady who stayed at my house last summer talked about, when she gave what she called an art evening in the town hall. "It didn't seem tome that those mutilated inisges would be worth looking look-ing at, but she said they were wonderful, wonder-ful, .so I just want to see tor myself. And then I'm planning to go to the public library and get out the magazine maga-zine with the end of a story I never finished. Some folks who were staying stay-ing with me a good many summers ago left quite a lot of that story in some magazines, and I've always been wishing to find out what became of the poor misguided girl in it. "And is that the extent of your business busi-ness in town?" smilingly Inquired Mrs. Harris. 'There's one more thing I'd like to do, and that i3 to go to the place where father bought my sewing-machine. He gave it to me the day I was eighteen. I want to tell the head man there that I never was able to use the tucker attachment. It used to just about ves the life out of me. Of course I wouldn't use it now, even if it did work, for I haven't done any fancy sewing for more than fifteen years, but I think the manager of that machine company ought to know that that tucker was dreadfully unsatisfactory." unsatisfac-tory." Youth's Companion. |