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Show BOSTON CHILD KEPT DIGNITY Matron Meant to Be Kindly, But Youngster Was Not Conversationally Conversa-tionally Inclined. This story has been going the rounds of Boston about the ten-year-old son of Director Russell of the Boston opera house. One evening during an entr'acte at the opera house Master Russell was promenading alone in the foyer, in faultlessly evening dress a very glass of fashion. A Boston matron, seeing that he was lonely, began to make herself her-self "agreeable." "You are Director Russell's little boy, aren't you?" she asked, with patronizing sweetness. Master Russell resented this intrusion intru-sion on his dignity, but his courtly manners were unruffled. "Yes, madam," he replied, with an elaborate elabor-ate bow. "Where were you born?" "In France, madam" slightly more frigid. "What part?" continued the lady, feeling the conversation well started. "AH of me, madam." And he bowed and walked away. Judge. |