Gladys was dusting the china, and I
was watching her.
“I wish I were that china,” said I.
.Not that I meant it, but It sounded
(sentimental.
* “Why?” asked Gladys, glancing over
her shoulder.
‘‘To be picked up by you,” I an
swered.
“Pooh!” said Gladys, “I put it down
again almost immediately.”
“ ‘Almost’ is such an expansive
word,” I remarked to my cigarette_
which turned red, perhaps because I
puffed at it.
Gladys seemed about to think, but
■changed her mind and spoke instead.
“We’re almost alone, do you mean?”
•she suggested brightly.
“We are, quite,” I corrected. Aunt
was out, speaking to the cook—some- i
'thing urgent, anyhow.
“You,” I began allegorically, "are j
Isomething in a shop-window.”
“Something nice,” Insisted Gladys,
j “Not necessarily,” I said, “but some
'thlng I want.”
"Oh!" murmured Gladys. She ap
peared to be In some doubt how to
take that.
"But I’ve no money,” I continued.
“Not really money” said Gladys,
'who disliked definiteness.
“Really money,” 1 said firmly. “Your
mother is the shopkeeper.”
"Is that quite nice?” asked Gladys,
doubtfully.
“So I can't set you,” I concluded,
without expressing an opinion.
“I don’t see—the—the—what do you
call it?” declared Gladys.
"How's that?" I inquired, flicking
the ash off my cigarette.
Gladys—well, no, she didn’t really
blush.
“There’s no window to this shop,"
she explained. Then she did blush.
Perhaps she doubted my honesty.
Your mother is doubling shopkeep
er and window," said I, as I heard my
aunt's footstep approaching.
She looked at us suspiciously as she
came In.
What are you two talking about?”
she inquired.
"Shops," said I promptly. “Wonder
ing whether there’ll ever be a bargain
sale.”
"There’s generally one,” said my
,aunt informatively, “every autumn.”
She eyed Gladys’ depressed expres
sion in surprise. You see, she didn't
know she’d been continuing an alle
gory.
"I loathe bargains!” Gladys burst
out.
"Sometimes you can't help getting
them,” I said, to soothe the little girl's
feelings.
1 don't think she quite grasped it;
but, then, girls often get the meaning
from the tone rather than the words.
“Oh, in that case—” she admitted.
“In what case?" asked my aunt, a
trifle bewildered.
“In case I ever got a bargain, Gladys
wouldn’t object,” I explained.
Gladys got up in a. hurry and con
tinued her dusting. Well, honestly she
implied that.
“Why should she object?” demanded
I my aunt.
J shrugged my shoulders.
1 don't think it's at all nice or you
rwhobji
noyed. 1 somewhat an
I didn’t,” I protested. “I said she
wouldn’t object." h
„relyofUnt l0°ke(1 at me with some de
gree of exasperation.
lv".Y™seeni m*.” she said severe
y’ ,to be Set«ng more difficult of com
ZmZ’D every day' You talk uttfir
“Not 'utter,* ” I pleaded.
, titter rubbish,” insisted my aunt.
never can understand you, and I
don t think Gladys does, although she
pretends to.”
"Gladys!” I cried indignantly.
t Not always," she answered.
„lbere! saitl m>" aunt triumphantly. I
That is,” corrected Gladys hurried- '
ly, "I always understand what you say, !
but not why you say it.”
I speak that 1 may not think,” I ex
plained.
Xow what does he mean by that?”
asked my aunt helplessly.
"My meaning,” I admitted, “is not
'er' obvious—not to a woman, any
how.”
"There’s a difference,” explained my
aunt kindly, "between foolishness and
cleverness.”
"That,” I acknowledged frankly, “is
so. The difficulty is to discover what
Is the difference.”
I paused politely as my aunt ap
peared to be about to speak.
"Yes?" I said encouragingly.
"Nothing,” said she. “Go on.”
"I haven’t solved the problem my
self, I informed her. “The difference
between sense and nonesense,” I went
on. “depends as much on the listener
as on the speaker.”
My aunt rose to her feet.
“Absurd!” said she. “Sense is al
ways sense. You are talking absolute
nonsense.”
"You, then,” I said admiringly, “have
solved the problem.”
Q. E. D.
At a dinner given by a high official
at Washington a distinguished French
man. who was visiting this country as
a delegate to a certain industrial con
ference, gave expression to extrava
gant praise of his beloved France. His
neighbor at table, on the right, would
smile and bow in polite acquiescence
every time the visitor would mention
an instance of France's superiority
above every other nation.
“The French,” exclaimed he, “are
the politest people on earth.”
The neighbor at table again smiled
and bowed.
A little piqued by the other's si
lence, the Frenchman asked: “Amer
icans admit, do they not, the superi
ority of the French in politeness?”
“O, yes.” came the reply; that's
our politeness.'—Lippincott’s Maga
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Questions of the Day Thrust Upon
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1 for their interpretation of them.
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agony of disagreeable scenes seeni3
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