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Show HIS FIRST ATTEMPT. (Kansas City Times.) They were in a carriage going to a ball. He was just of age and was wearing, his new dress suit. It was his first attempt at "doing things up in style " Never before had he worn a dress suit or taken a girl to a social function in a carriage. He had dressed m nervous haste, and yet he had tried his best to see that his raiment was absolutely faultless. fault-less. ' . As i they were driven rapidly toward the hall thev talked ot the fine time they expected to have suddenly sud-denly the girl stopped talking and gazed intentlv at the bottom of the hack. The youth noticed that she was apparently interested in something, down there, and he asked : "Mary,' what's the matter with u? Vhat makes you so quiet?" "John," she replied, re-plied, "perhaps I shouldn't, ask you such a ques- feet? The young man looked down. H0 was still in hie old carpet slippers, soekless. |