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Show SHE WAS SO THOUGHTFUL! Dut We May Be Permitted to Doubt If Every One of the Party Was Grateful to Her. Tho family picnic has reached the selected spot. It Is eight mllos from nowhere. Papa puts down the baskets and packages with a sigh of rcllof. "Now, children," ho says, "wo will begin tho fostlvitles of the afternoon by shooting our llroworks." Laying out tho cannon crackers and other things ho cautions tho children to bo caroful, while ho searches through his pockets for matches. Finding Find-ing none, he hastily turns over nil the bundlos and packages, and then says: "Mamma, I put a box of matches In one of these baskets. Did you see anything any-thing of it?" "Yes, my dear." "Where is it?" "Locked in tho pantry at home. I hav9 read bo much about terrible accidents acci-dents happening because matches wero kept near .llroworks that I was determined deter-mined to remove a!' possibility of such a thing occurring It It could be pro-vented." pro-vented." HHHHHn |