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Show LACE SCARF AS EAR TRUMPET Ctderly Lady Has Discovered It Acts as Sounding Board. With advancing years a dear old lady lias found that her hearing has becomo eomewlmt affected. She hat not found It necessary to use an eai trumpet as yet, but It Is difficult ai times to catch nil that friends oi Anything said In nn undortono Is com pletely lost to her that Is. it was un til she ' It upon a novel Iden. Whllo visiting a friend recently tb hostess had pitched her voice aliniis" to the straining point nnd her ocn' orgnns were getting tired, when "Aunt KIr" n aha fa n rTuntlnnnlplv Iprmfl' Interrupted her by saying: "Pleasr dearie, hand mo my laco head sarf." v "Do you feel a draught?" anx!ousl Inquired tho hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Not the slightCBt," said "Aunt Sis" as she adjusted the head covering. "Then why do you wear It? U will make your head tendoi" "Oh, I think not. You see, tho scarf acts as a sort of sounding board. It keeps out nil other sounds except those of the human voice. When I wear this I can hear even a whisper. I can't explain why It Is, but It Is so, nevertheless. I have had lots of fun over It, too. My boys havo been taking tak-ing advantage of my Infirmity to whisper whis-per to each other I didn't hear them before I began to wear this scarf, but now I know lots of their secrets and they don't know It. It's a good Joke on them." |