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Show PHOTOGRAPH MADE HER WED. TIIIC day after the bachelor girl announced her engagement en-gagement she destroy cd a lot of papers and photographs. photo-graphs. Amoug the Inttcr was a picture of herself, her-self, taken by an amateur photographer. "I wouldn't hnve ltlchard sec Unit for anything." eho said. "To tell the truth that picture is what made me marry him. UulU I saw myself as 1 look there I bad declared that I wouldn't marry him. I liked him well enough, but I didu't want to ninny any one just yet. There was time enough for that, I thought, later on. when I had accomplished a few things in the literary liter-ary line, "Well, one day a friend took that picture. I can't describe the sinking feeling that came over mo when I saw it. I showed It to the most truthful girl I know. " Do I louk like that?' I asked. "In that ca6e the truth was so humiliating that sho bated to tell It, but her natural habit of candor prevailed. pre-vailed. " A camera Is uot llkclj- to lie.' she said. "Then I locked myself up In my room and epeut a whole afternoon studylug that picture. I looked at the fiat hair, the lines around the mouth and eyes, the general evidences of approaching age. " 'You cau't nfford to wait a few years,' I tolil my. bclf with merciless honesty. 'Judging by thut picture It Is now or never.' "That very night I wrote to ltlchard. I told him I had reconsidered and was willing to name tho day, which should not be far off. lie, poor fellow, attributed at-tributed ray change of heart to a tardy appreciation of his own virtues. Heaven forbid that he should ever learn the real reason That Is why I have destroyed l hat phntojrniph " |