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Show The Ba-ne of Friendship. It runs somewhat in this fashion; "I have half a mind to tell you something I heard about you the other day. Still, I am afraid you would be annoyed, and I believe 1 will not." Of course you say that you will not be annoyed, aud upon this assurance your friend proceeds to say: "If you are quite sure you will not be angry I will tell you." Then cornea some unpleasant thing reflecting on your temper, your tastes or, if there is a flaw to be found, your habits. Sometimes it comes in the definite form of an assertion that you have been guilty of Borne atrocity atroci-ty of which you know yourself to be innocent in-nocent Very naturally, in the latter lat-ter case, you ask whence came the charge, only to find that the calumniator has extracted a promise that the author's i identity shall not be revealed. So you are left defenseless. You cannot deny I or explain. Detroit Free Press, i |