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Show Really Civilized. "It was tho last placo In tho world I ever expected to find trading stamps," said tho Ntjw York woman. "I got them .In a Chinese curio shop right down In the Chinese quarter. I went there to get somo real cups and saucers, somo real Incense, and a few other real ornaments. Onco In tho shop I bought a good deal moro than I had expected to buy. My bill reached a petty figure, consequently I received re-ceived a whole bunch of stamps. I waB so surprised when tbo proprietor handed them out that 1 hardly recognized recog-nized those familiar adjuncts to trade. "'For goodness' sake I said, 'do you glvo trading stamps down horo?' " 'Sure,' eald the proprietor.- He waa bo completely Americanized, you see, that ho oven spoke Idiomatic English. 'We hae to glvo them to keep up with the times.' "The little man seemed qulto proud of his advancement, as woll ho might, for what surer evidence could he havo offered of western civilization?" |