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Show At a Disadvantage. While awaiting the coming of her friend, the mother, a visitor to a Baltimore Bal-timore household was holding a desultory desul-tory conversation with one of the little lit-tle girls in the drawing room. "Where are your two little sisters?" the caller asked. "Oh, they," observed the little girl, with the air of one upon whom responsibilities respon-sibilities rest heavily "they're out somewhere to have what mother calls 'mischief and what they call 'fun.' " "And why didn't you go to share In the 'fun?' " asked the caller. The child sighed. "Mother trusts me so dreadfully," she explained, "that 1 can't have much fun." Lippin-:ott's. |