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Show UMBRELLA ALWAYS AT HAND Tor Small Sum, Subscriber Is Guaranteed Guar-anteed Protection From the Sudden Shower. The llelglans have just founded a company whose originality will be hard to best. This Is iho I'tnbrella Lending society. The company has a capital of several sev-eral million francs, and half as many umbrellas and Its cbjtct Is to save people from the troi'bln of buying and carrying these occasionally useful but cumbersome articlea about when not In actual employ. Subscribers pay II a year, and are given an aluminum counter with a number It la mudi easier evidently to carry a counter than an umbrella. If tli" subscriber Is taught In the ralu all that he has to do is to go Into the nearest restaurant, tobacco shop, or big store, and In return for his ticket he Is Immediately furnlthed with a respectable umbrella. When the sun comes out axntn be enters the first similar establishment and deposits his utnbrelia In exchausa for another counter Stray Stories. |