Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1911-01-13
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
They May Not Be Quite So Nu-
merouS as You Imagine.
EN5tI III NV
GUESS AS TO THEIR NUMBER.


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Then Dc Some Thinking and Fiquriru
4 and See :, ~ Far r.Fron Your Guess
e fou Cone and Incidentally Learn
How Mary Folks You Don't Know.
Did yon ever have the experience Of
walklns. down Main sfreef. witss z..snau
who Is running for officer. All the time
he . sowisg ri shs ada lr4t rts people
you tndet axesat tlnses-insa block he
viii stop 70 shake hands with an ac-
qunintance tSA fx
You seem to know every one.R you
say toibinlalInusf enuiousgyl.
That's right" he replies. not with
ont s5ue grides n guess 1 do know
everybody worth knowing.
Yvt how many people does he know7
How many people do You kpUw your
selfl Did yon ever try to figure If out?
What proportion of the people ia the
United States do xou lpew2 Certainly
yon don't know the one-hundreth part
OF them. Even the president of the
United seltes doesn't and couldn't IL
be Kept travelling all the time, making
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that there is no person in the whole
world that knows a million other per-
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II is business. too. for a merchant to
remember all Of his. thousand custom
ers. but Ferg few merchants flre able to
I do Il Possibly some of the politicians