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Show WHY HE WOULD SE PAINED. Very Sufficient Reason for the Father's Indignation. A kind-hearted lad saw a smnll boy seated on ono of .the benches In Falrmount park tho other day smoking smok-ing a cigar, which sho afterward told a friend seemed almost as big as himself. him-self. Tho lady Is an enthusiastic anti-tobacco anti-tobacco workor, and never loses an opportunity to Impress, especially upon youthful pilaris, tho ovlls of using tobacco In any form. Seating herself by tho stdo of tho lad, sho said, kindly: "Oh, my boy, wouldn't your father bo dicndfully pained If ho saw you smoking thnt cigar?" "Hnthcr think ho w'oultl," responded tho twentieth century young man, without removing tho weed from his mouth, "this Is ono of his best cigars." ci-gars." Philadelphia Ledp.er. |