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Show OLD LADY'S POLITICAL LEANING. Was Not at All Particular About Gladstone's Glad-stone's Appearance. A very amusing letter tho artist onco received, was from a London baker, who had asked Mr. Shepherd to glvo him somo designs for bread beastlcs, of which tho baker made a specialty. It ran as follows: "Somo years slnco an old lady got mo to do some bread faces, and I produced pro-duced somo fairly recognlzablo profiles pro-files ot eminent statesmen. She objected ob-jected to Lord Itandolph Churchill his oyo was not large enough. I explained ex-plained that there was as much fire and languago as one currant could convoy, but at her suggestion I substituted sub-stituted a sultana, with the best results. re-sults. Tho old lady, however, In ordering or-dering later on betrayed her political learnings. She said In a postscript: A currant will do for old Gladstone's eye!'" M. A. P. |