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Show Child "Was Color Blind. Ex-Judge S. P. jMcConnell of ;. the George A. Fuller Construction company ( is credited with a story about' ah 'acquaintance, 'ac-quaintance, a dapper, conceited young ' chap, who has an aversion to negroes. t This acquaintance boarded a' northbound north-bound Eighth avenue car at Thirtieth' t street one Saturday night not long ago. - g The car was crowded, and after a few blocks had been passed, the young feT- low found himself in the aisle just be- ' hind a fat negress with a baby.- For the infant's comfort it. was slung over the mother's shoulder. It was a jolly little thing, smiling and trying. to talk : toallaround.it. Sudded.nly it -saw f he A prim young man and all at once its. fat little arms, shot out and its'black -fin-' J gers wiggled invitingly. . .-, .. . 1 "Papa! Papa!" gurgled. ' the. 'babe. . "Goo-goo! Pitty papa!" 1 ' . ' The chuckles and giggles of jthe on'- ' 5 lookers beoame guffaws when . the S mother, glancing" backward, said in - a & rejiroving tone: . . . , "Hush yo' mouf, yo' fool chile. That's not yo' papa." . .- 0 Then she turned to the young -fellow and apologized thus: "I'se noticed 'hit ? befo', sah, an' now I'se shuah. ob hit. " s This baby's suttinly color blind; he-is' indeedy. Too bad, suh, hain't it?" ' d The young man did not wait to reply - J nor does he know just how he g-pt off the car. v |