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Show A Secret Standard. A small boy and his smaller sister woro being interviewed by an admiring admir-ing visitor. Sho asked tho boy how old ho was, but ho had an attack of shyness and could not toll. Ills sis-tor, sis-tor, howovcr, did hotter, and announced an-nounced that ho was six years old. "Six years old!" oxclalmod tho visitor. vis-itor. "What a big boy! And how tall oro you?" This bturnped both tho children. Tho visitor expressed surprlso that a six-year-old boy could not tell his height, and even tho lit-tlo lit-tlo slstor hung her head ln shamo. Then tho visitor gave it up and talked of othor things, but soon tho llttlo girl edgod around to hor and wills-porod: wills-porod: "You mustn't tell mamma," ho said, "but nob is Just tall onough to reach tho Jam on tho pantry shelf." |