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Show I ENGAGEMENT THAT CAME FIRST. I Something; Like an Apt Illustration of the Eternal Feminine. A woman who had a deposit ot 10, ! 000 appealed to an Influential friend I during the financial flurry, to help her I get the money. She called at his house at a late hour upon the same evening that the newspapers mentlnnrd the name of her bank. I Bhortly after nine o'clock the I next morning the woman answered an-swered the telephone. Her business friend advised her to remain at homo until he could 'visit several banks and see If any ot them would advance the money. He called on four without success, but the fifth promised to advance ad-vance It. The man quickly Jumped to a telephone. Ills acquaintance, according accord-ing to instructions, had a check for the full amount made nut and ready to present. " "Como down at once to the and bring your check with you, as I have everything arranged," said the man. "I can't come to-day, I have an engagement en-gagement with my dressmaker," replied re-plied the woman who had been in such distress. X. Y. Evening PoBt. |