Show The World Growing Smaller The world is growing smaller every day Three gentlemen were standing together in the east room of the White House at the last State reception Richly dressed and beautiful women were thronging that magnificent parlor from the green room having been through a the expression is for a presentation to the President in the blue room The social mill was in furious operation that evening and an enormous grist was be ing grourfd out Suddenly a mediumsized fascinating lady from New York in an elegant and becoming costume emerged from the hopper She was the wife of a high railway official in that city The three gentlemen glanced at her No one of the three knew that either of the others had ever seen her before Ah 1 said Browne the last time I met her I was pouring sand into her shoes at Long Branch Indeed said White The last time I met her was at the Hotel Conti v nentat in Paris when she presented me to Clara Louise Kellogg And that reminds me said Greene that the last time I saw her I was seated by her side in her carriage driving driv-ing up Fifth Avenue for a turn in Central Cen-tral park And then the three gentlemen looked at each other and shook hands and laughed Washington How Post small this world is |