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Show WHEN HE WAXED ELOQUENT Phonograpn Record of Just What Mr. Smith Said Might Have Been Interesting. Speaking at a dinner, Representative Representa-tive Joseph J. Russell of Missouri referred re-ferred to the glory of feminine fashions fash-ions and fittingly related a little story along that line. Recently Smith and Jones met In a restaurant, and while daintily manipulating manip-ulating the abbreviated bits, their talk turned to a comparison of domestic expenses. First It was beef, next It was butter, and finally millinery came up for a few sighful remarks. "You should have seen the peach of a hat my wife toted home n few day ago," said Smith. "It was all plumes and other embellishing things, and, after telling me that It was standing stand-ing against my account at $50 she sweetly asked me what I thought of It." "I see," was' the smiling response of Jones. "Of course you told her." "Oh, yes," answered Smith, with a grim expression. "I simply raved over that hat for an hour." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. |