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Show NOT EVEN LOVERS' QUARREL Dialogue Might Have Seemed-of Significance Sig-nificance to Listener, but Really It Had None. (A dialogue between He and She.) "What have you got there?" "Where?" "In your hands, behind your back." "I'm not going to show you." "Ah, please do." "Promise you won't try to take it away from me?" He sneaks up close to the girl, who furtively holds before him a photo, which he clutches with both hands. "That's beautiful!" "Do you really think so?" "Yes, pretty nice. But you are much more beautiful, you know." "Now you're flattering me. I think I look just horrid in it." "Oh, you don't. Aren't you going to give this one to me?" The girl flies to the other side of the room in evident terror. The youth flies over after her, and in an apparent struggle manages to (quite easily) wrench the photo from her grasp. "Give it back to me! Please give It back!" she pleads. "Give It back? I guess not!" "I think you're just the meanest thing!" In a little while they quiet down, and, despite the fact that she continues contin-ues to coax him for the photo every few minutes, he carries it away with him. She goes to bed perfectly happy, hap-py, for she intended that he should have it; in fact, had it taken especially espec-ially for him. Detroit Free Press. Condescension. "Isn't the style of music you have been playing rather lacking in classic quality?" "Oh, yes," replied the highly accomplished accom-plished girl. "But one must show some consideration for the tastes ol one's parents." |