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Show Was His Humor Conscious? A young woman in I'inshui-uh v:: recently lnokiiig ai material in one of that riiy's leading dry goods shires in an atu-nipt to select what would make an atuactive skirt fur tin' seashore. The clerk rather sitvmiously suggeii'd the availability of several patterns. "But." said the young woman, "they are rather loud, don't you think?" Without a glimmer of a smile, and in a perfectly correct tone for a salesman to assume, he replied: , "Too loud for awnings just right for skirls." Fragile Distinction. "Mow does P.liggins get the reputation reputa-tion of being such a clever man? He's' always getting into some new kind of trouble." "Yes. Where he shows his cleverness clever-ness is by. getting tint again." |