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Show Didn't Concern Him. "Sir," tho sad-faced man sold to tho heayy-set man who was smoking a long, black cigar and reading a newspaper, news-paper, "would you allow your boy to smoke cigarettes when ho grows up?" "I've iover given tho question a minute's min-ute's thought," ropllod tho other. "What! Never pondered upon tho effect upon tho constitution, to say nothing of tho mind of your son, to allow him to smoko tho deadly things?" "Never a thought no, sir." "And will you allow him to drink?" "I havo never thought about it." "Oh,, can such things bo? Aro you letting your child grow up in tho mldBt of temptation without speaking a fatherly fa-therly vid to" "Look hero, sir! You mean well, I supposo, but let me tell you that I've been a confirmed bachelor for tho last 20 years." |