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Show ABSENT-MINDED FINANCIER. Strictly Attentive to Business He Lost Sight cf Domestic Felicities. A now story about a'.'sjuMnlndcd-ness a'.'sjuMnlndcd-ness Is being told on a West Philadelphia Philadel-phia man, and he Is not a college professor, pro-fessor, either, but an alert tlnnncier of large affairs who is so absorbed In his busln. ss that similar stories havo been told on him before, relates the Phlladelp.'da Itecord. HIb Infirmity. Indeed, la so well rec-OKiiized rec-OKiiized that at his office, In a btg llroad strut building, every sort of safeguard Is taken, anil ho Is a difficult diffi-cult person to see, except by appointment. appoint-ment. On this occasion, however, he was not In his office, hut nt home, alone In the library, awaiting with some trepidation the course of events upstairs, where great things were happening. hap-pening. Despite his anxiety, however, his mind wandered and ho fell to speculating spec-ulating as to how he should enlarge his business to as .to mako It fit tho approaching amplification of'hU domestic do-mestic establishment. Just then thero was n knock nt tho door. "Como In," said the financier A whito-capped nurso stuck her head around tho edge of the door. "It's a boy. sir," bIio said. Tho tlnnncier rnlced himself. "Kindly nsk him to stato the rtaturo of his business," he replied. |