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Show KASY TO PICK OUT UMBRELLA. Englishman' Was One That No American Amer-ican Would Carry. Aa Englishman who bad left a New Yorlc hotel for a western trip wroto back asking tho manager, to look up an umbrella ho had forgotten and to keep It for him. Tho letter contained no description of tho umbrella, which was one of several dozen that had been left by departing guests. How-over, How-over, out of tho miscellaneous collection collec-tion on hand tho manager picked out ono umbrella, tagged It with tho Englishman's Eng-lishman's name, and laid It away for safo keeping. Upon thoTotum of tho traveler that umbrella was given hira. it proveu to uo tho right ono. "How on earth could you tell It wa3 his?" asked a Dr. Watsonlshklnd of clork with as much awo as If ho wero addressing Shcilock Holmes himself. "Thoro was no possible way of Identifying Identi-fying it." "Yos, there was," said tho manager. "It was tho heaviest, clumsiest, ugliest ugli-est umbrella In tho bunch. An Englishman Eng-lishman always canles that kind. All tho rest of thoso umbrellas woro flimsy affairs, such as most Americans use, but which no Drltleher would walk across the street with. Knowing Know-ing the national taste, It was Impossible Impossi-ble to mako a mistake" |