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Show Romance and Reality. Tho young man had pulled tho young woman up the hill on tho toboggan, to-boggan, and was amazed to find her moodily silent when they reached the top. "What Is wrong?" ho asked. If iti hud any romance about you, jou would hnvo taken advantage of tho occasion and tho opportunity to bay that you would bo happy to pull me up tho hill of llfo forever and ever, rhe sighed. 'Hut, i-but, I" "Hut lasf summer when wo were bkUtlng jou said you could think of no brighter futuro than to drift together to-gether adown tho stream of life." "I know, .Icar; uut when a man pulU 160 pounds of a girl up a half-mile half-mile hill he hasn't enough breath left to say what ho thinks, Drifting in n boat gies him i.,oro breath, and more tlmo to think, ami less laborious work for his arms." Chicago Trl bune. Irreverent Suggestion. Joseph II. Choato tells ot a meeting at a London club of a bishop and Lord Hosebery. During tho courso of their conversation tho reverend gentleman observed to his lordship: "I'vo nn In-Tltatlm In-Tltatlm to dlno this evening. What u n "co it Is n long dinner, I mer s thero are two things I absolutely abso-lutely drend a lorn- dinner and a long eermon. I content that however good they may bo nolther tho dinner nor tho sermon should take moro than twonty minutes at tho most." Hose-bory Hose-bory smiled. "It necrnt to me," ho said, "that tho ma,tter might be nicely I arranged by knocking ten minutes off tho sormon and putting It on tho dinner." |