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Show "iVhret Is n rrofennlonatT I was sininT at an afternoon party, aud I waa the only "professional" thero. A little hoy played tin violin. I remarked to my hostess that tho hoy showed sijrns of great promise. "Ia he a professional?" pro-fessional?" 1 asked. "Oh! no," said my hostess; "ho's the son of a gentleman!" Tho dear lady meant no offense, Bho only meant that tho father wius a man of means; hut that she should havo put it in the way she did and made the remark to tho only professional in tho room was, perhaps, unfortunate. Nervousness eomo-litnos eomo-litnos causes people to blurt out most inconvenient in-convenient truths. I arrived once at a house to sing at an "At Home." My host was a very nervous, ehy man. I remarked: "You have two grand pianos in your drawing rooms, I sue," Oh! oh ! ye yea !" Raid my host. "We hired the one that's ojten for this afternoon. after-noon. My wife said, 'Wo can't let Cor-ney Cor-ney (.I rain play on our lest piano.' Hal ha I ha!" I laughed a hollow "ha! had ha I" and went meekly to my hired companion com-panion for the afternoon. Somet tinea ladies sidle tip and say in an undertone: "lie merciful, Mr. Grain, our piano is a new one." "Oh I pray don't nxlogizo," I reply, "it'll do well enough for my work." Murray's Magazine, |