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Show Hit Modest Request. The great pianist at the drawing room function nroBo from his Instrument Instru-ment and held up his hand. Wbrn'thb hubbub of voices died down he cleared hie olco and spoke. "I do not ask," he said, "that you moderate your conversation to the point whero you enn henr mo piny. I don't caro whether ou hear mo or not. But In order to do myself Justice, I must request that joii allow me to hear myself." In the silence that ensued hobroko three strings and n plate glass window. |