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Show THE SHATTERED IDOL. K ( C "B -f the greatest sorrows of fa- t R yJ mous persons like myself," recent- (JBtr ly observed a well known novlbu, I. Ip? "is tho realization that comes to iw sooner k Br or later that it Is Impoflnlblo to live up to HfCr the Ideal opinioua that the people whom j- Bfeff wo meet in tho ordinary affairs of life have ' Wh'l formed of hk. f. R?fll "Not long since I bad occasion to remark ' K?n to a waiter in a cafo where I sometimes " E- dine : . mfe, " 'Waiter, this beef 18 extremely 'tough. '' Kk-7" "Whereupon the servitor looked at me rffljjpk with a ead expression nnd sighed deeply. Xljlp " 'May I Inqnlre.'said I, 'wbjr you sigh i W&t in that fashion'' HV' " 'Ah, sir,' said tho waiter, 'I took you 1 Sf? for a man who always said original things, P"e and here you come and say just the saraa 4 iin thing that all tbc rest of them do.' " Y iityl .1 |