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Show PROBABLY DIDN'T GET LOAN Would-Be Borrower Freed His Mind, but Remark Poured No Oil on Troubled Waters. The story Is told of a banker who suffered the loss of one eye r-nd hnd a glass substitute made. The glass eye was wonderfully fashioned, so much so that lis wearer was satisfied satis-fied no one could tell It from n real organ. A dny or so after he began wearing It, a customer of the bank sought n loan, but the banker was not quite satisfied with the collateral. collat-eral. After much persuasion from tha-would-be borrower, the hanker said: "I will make you a sporting proposition. prop-osition. If you can tell which of my eyes Is gluss, I will make you the- loan." "Thai's easy," replied thc other. "It's your left eye." "How do you know?" asked the banker. "It Is .he more sympathetic of the-two," the-two," responded the borrower. Wall Street Journal. |