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Show jf l A Poignant Anecdote. '1 X , "Tho great fault of American scrv- j a ants is familiarity. To bo familiar is 2j to bo inoillcient. A familiar cook Is as $ ' inulllclent as a pesBlmtBtlo doctor." 4 "j Tho Bpcaker, Mrs. Doardman Harrl- ' man, is perhaps tho most brilliant con- vorsationalist in New York a fact i ; vbicli renders moro poignant this an- ecdoto. 1 t "1 had a roolc," she continued, "whom 1 tried to break of hor ovor-fa- f I mlllarlty. What was tho result? This j . cook, discussing mo in tho servants' L . lull, said: ) "I dou't Bay sho'B a bad mistress, t A ' but bIio'b n woman of only ono Idea. ' ft ' Why, 1 can't never got hor to talk of a ' ,- Hlnglo think but eating.' " |