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Show Hypothetical. "Miss de Smyithe." began the young man. "I want to ask you a hypothetical hypothetic-al question." The girl nodded assent. "If a young man of good family and pound health and an assured income of $5,000 were to meet the most charming of girls and feed her ice cream for a year; if she had a complexion like a rose, hair a crown of golden glory, the hand of a fairy, iho. bearing- of a queen; if she knew bow not to play the piano, how to induce her small brother to absent himself: was versed in cooking, competent to superintendent a home-; and if a young man, auspiciously auspici-ously catching the girl aione, were to muriner into her ear of pearl. "Will you marry me?' what, in your estimation, estima-tion, would be her condition of mind and what her answer?" "While not an expert alienist," responded re-sponded the girl coyly, "I think she'd believe him a chump for being so slow, but she'd say 'Yes.' " With the preliminaries thus settled, the naming of the day was a simple maiter. Philadelphia Ledger. |