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Show PROBABLY DIDN'T GET LOAM Would-Be Borrower Freed His Mind,l but Remark Poured No Oil . on Troubled Waters. The story is told of a banker whoj suffered the loss of one eye end had a glass substitute made. The glnss eye was wonderfully fashioned, so much so that Its wearer was satisfied satis-fied no one could tell It from a real organ. A day or so after he began! wearing it, a customer of t lie bank sought a loan, but the banker was not quite satisfied with the collateral. collat-eral. After much persuasion from the would-be borrower, the bunker said: "I will make you a sporting proposition. prop-osition. If you can tell which of my eyes is glass, I will make yon tlie loan." "That's easy." replied the other. "It's your left eye." "How do you know?" asked the banker. "It is Jie more sympathetic of the two," responded the borrower. Wall Street Journal. |