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Show Forestalled. District Attorney J. F. Clarke of New York was talking about the recent re-cent kidnaping cases. "Kidnapers," be said, "are apt to disappear now. They have become too unpopular. Why, a kidnaper la as unpopular as a widower. "Widows, now, are very attractive, but about a widower there la always something uncanny, something almost clammy I mean, of course, from the matrimonial point of view. "I know a widower who la thinking of marrying again. He thought he'd broach the matter delicately the othpr morning to his little daughter, ao he said: " 'Ah, my dear, how I did love your mother!' "Hut the little girl gave him a suspicious sus-picious look aud snapped: "'Say "do," not "did," papa." |