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Show Thought the City Tame It was at it dinner part), and tho hot ten, coming up to her bolt friend, whttpered In her eir: "Would jou mind laying Jutt a tiny word to her by and by? Sho doom t know a rout, and tho women are ao j,j , horrid to alrangcrs." Tho stranger Indicated was Incon venlently In town from Bnshcllle, Oie. and being a distant rclalho. had to be crushed In at tho dinner, under , protest, at tho last moment. Tho hostess' fr end good naturedly promised to divoto herself after !t-i . ncr to the Siukotlllo widow. Hut the fair unknown did rot meit hor advance ad-vance with tho embarrassed di light which such clvlllllo should hae commended. com-mended. "If awfully hot In this par lor!" wna her first greeting, In a lono In which thero lurked a certain com-bathe com-bathe qutl ty. Hy and by tho conversation con-versation steered around to travel. "Have ou traveled much?" asked tho hostess' friend iuaul) 'Oh, I'vo boen ever) where. Wenl around tho world with my brother, who wna engineering. U'h), It waa In Russia that I met tho Colonel." (The "Colonel" was evidently her dead lord ) 'Yes," sho went on, "wo got ongagrd at Ttnrl oe Setn, In tbo grotto the) call Caprice." Thl was unusual, romantic, and the New York woman said so "Ah!" alghed the woman from Rnal.cUlle. "yea! It waa romantic There's been n lot of that In my Ufa When fc lodj's travi- 1 round and been on the plains and army pitta snd hunting buffaloes, n rl'co Ilka your Nw York seems awfully tamo. I kind o' r"y ou all here!" The woman agreed tint wo were, In fact, ery tame chimney sparrows, house fllei, hopping abcut. tepid and Insignificant, In touch of entertainment. entertain-ment. Now York Press. |