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Show MADE A trOMCOTC STORM. Mary's IUp-rt r?'l-d fcr E.ercle of Much Dlplomffcy. "You never ran tell what Is liable to happen to a rhap thso days," said a well-known mtn about town to tho Star rounder, '.'hllo sitting In the lobby lob-by of a certain hotel tho other oven-lug. oven-lug. Tho afou3atd man about town Ih married anil has a vary pretty homo or Columbia Heights. "You see, It makes n, dlfforcnco what precautionary pre-cautionary mua-juros a fpllnvv takes to avoid any of tliojo llttlu storms that aro liable to cnnio up In one's homo dosplto tho predictions of tho weith-er weith-er bureau. My wife went to lslt sonio friends of hers out nt lb-atts vlllo one afternoon recently, Intending Intend-ing to stay threo day.i, with the un-derstand'ng un-derstand'ng that I was to Join her thero on tho day boforo her ret.irn home. Well, on tho morn trig of (ho day 1 w-i to go out there she discovered discov-ered that she had either !()3t a piotty neck pin 1 had given her or had left It at home. She tlm.iht thut sho may havo left It on the maatelplece In tho sitting room, a"d bolus qullo anxious about It she called up tho houno by 'phono. Of courso. It was my luck to havo como down town, and tho call was answered bv tho niuld." "Mary," said tho inadame, "did you Unit nnythtiK when you cleaned up tho sitting room this morning?" "Mary's answer," said Mr. Man-Abotit-Town, "gave mo a lolt that required re-quired diplomacy for settlement ri enter than that In tho Han Pinncls-co-Jap..H'so school muddle." "What did Mary say?" asked the Star man, drawing closer to tho narrator. nar-rator. "Why, she told tho tuadame that sho found eight corks, threo pucks of cards and a lot of linker chips on tho Moor!" Washington Star. |