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Show Cured ;i Had Club Habit. The visito $ from Milwaukee was talking abotig the disrespect shown to th speakers t a recent big "dinner which he a tended in, this city. "In my clu'o in if' waukee the same conditions condi-tions used to! prevail," he said, "but now it is different. By the time cigars were around tnere used to be a number num-ber of men vho would "not refrain from talking ;fnd laughing while the answers were tnade to the toasts. The speakers wouli be embarrassed and 96 per cent of th) men at the table annoyed. an-noyed. But' a few weeks ago an attorney at-torney began to speak. Then he stopped for ja moment. 'Mr. Chairman,' Chair-man,' he said) 'I move you that a committee com-mittee be instructed to take down all the names of those who have persisted in talking ai d laughing during the speeches tonight, and that charges be preferred against them if they are members of the club. If not members I ask that they be excluded from future fu-ture dinners.' When the applause subsided sub-sided the chairman said he thought there would be no further interruption. interrup-tion. And there was none." Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times. |