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Show SHE INSISTED ON FFICSH Alf. And Ilia l'oli.lloodal Man Had la Nlaad lha Drausht. Traveling brings out the Idiosyncrasies Idiosyncra-sies of people as no other experience can effect. Certainly the man and woman who occupied opposite compartments com-partments In n car that recently rolled westward from Now York could not be said to bo rm conveniently adjusted as Jack Rprat and his wife. It wak a very cold morning outside the framework frame-work of the Pullman, but within tho heat surged the mercury upward until It reached the fever register, "Porter," "Por-ter," snapped the man, viciously, "I want those ventilators closed You'll give us all pneumonia In a couple of seconds," and the porter meekly closed tho transoms, "Porter," Immediately called tho woman, "I want the ventilators ventil-ators on my side of the car open aa wide as you can open them " Tho nftl-clsl nftl-clsl hesitated only an Instant, for the woman's quirk "Do It nt once, porter," por-ter," brooked no delny. He pulled them down with a grin nt the opposite passenger. Hut tho mr-k didn't smllo himself. He uttered audible maledictions maledic-tions on suthor of his discomfort, and OHtentntlously shrouded his shivering form In an overcoat, pulling the collar well up over hla throat and ears, And tho woman, In a linen shirtwaist, read her book arrrnel), whimsically unmindful un-mindful of the glares of her neighbor. |