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Show THE CITIZEN 50 Start the Christmas Dinner with T O M .ATT O ID If your Christmas bouillon cups hold Pierces Tomato Soup, they will prove a wonderfully tempting introduction to the big brown turkey and the steaming plum pudding. Its ready SANATORILY PACKED EVERLASTINGLY BACKED BY wrongfully, and added, I guess you didnt know Tower. Another picture came up in the editors mind his special writer, handsome in that oddly feminine way, dressed like a tailors model, oozing conceit, showing his very white teeth under a dandified little brown mustache in a mechanical smile. "I knew 1 was a him enough, he growled. fool to tolerate him here. A great perplexity showed in Cochrans eyes and he rubbed his brow. I lay awake nearly all last night thinking this over, Mr. Hinton, he said, 1 think I understand it now, but I dont believe I could explain it so you would understand it because it was all in the air and because, probably, you wouldnt believe that of me. Tower used to saunter back to the local room every now and then He in the afternoon, you know. wanted to show off. He'd talk about well known men and women in town as though they were intimate friends of his call em by their first names or nicknames. I suppose he did go around a good deal and had some acquaintance with prominent people and picked up the gossip. He did it to impress us, you know, with what a devil of a fellow he was. Hed speak to Freddie Tyson as though Tyson would hand the paper over to him if he said so. Of course, there was no harm in all that just a conceited fellow showing off. But it was the way he talked about women. I never heard such abominable names and all that. It Made from the choicest Utah tomatoes, skillfully seasoned with choice spices Pierces Tomato Soup is more than soup it is a rare repast an appetizing preparation for a holiday feast. cooked-- you need only The Utah heat it. Canning Co was all as much as to say that he had only to wink at any woman and shed come along. It made me mighty sore on general principles, and especially his talking that way to the boys, some of em just youngsters. Two or three times I had a good mind to tell him to cut that stuff out or keep out of the local room. But you know how it is a fellow dont like to set up for a saint and look foolish. So I kept my mouth shut He sauntered in one afternoon. That was about half past three, I think, when the days work was about done and everybody was going home. Three or four of the boys were hanging around and I had some work to finish up. Bessie had come in there. She had her coat on, but not her hat. She was talking to me and Herbert Wells at my desk. Well, Tower sauntered in. It was the first time he had seen her. She didnt see him, for she was looking the other way. He saw her and stopped dead looking at her well, as though he found her very good to look at. That part of it was open enough. And he looked around at young Wilkins and somebody else as though he were sort of demanding an explanation of a girl like Bessie being there. And young Wilkins stepped up and Introduced him to her. She was nice to him as se was to everybody, and he followed her back into the exchange room where she put on her hat. We could hear her laughing. They were in there may be five or ten minutes and Bessie went THE DADDY OF EM ALL O OGDEN SINCE 1888 out and Tower came back into the her. I knoThe did. I could feel it. local room, fixing his mustache with I could see it in, their looks and their the end of his finger in that way he air towards me. It was in the air. had and showing his teeth. The city He was acting his part toward me all editor paused a moment and confessed, the time suggesting it all the time. with humility Someway I always It was just as though he had said to hated the fellows white teeth. Well, them, 'Ill take this young woman as a subject and show you how the spell he came back with that selfsatisfied air and says, The lady pleases me. works. It was just as though he had Now, nobody could find any fault stepped up to my desk and put his with his saying that only the way he hand on my shoulder and said to said it, and the sort of fellow he was everybody, Watch me walk off with and the way he talked about women. this chumps wife. Yet there wasnt It would make anybody mad; but anything at all that a man could take thtre was nothing anybody could take up. I dont know as l ean explain it. up about it without looking like a He was acting the part all the time fool. That was ten days before we doing everything he could to get them were married. After that every day to think wrong and t oget me to think or so until we were married and she wrong, as though he had a grudge left the office, he would come back and against me for marrying her and talk to her sit on the comer of the against her for marrying me; as desk. Of course somebody told him though that was an open humiliation right away that she was going to to him. One day, for example, he came back marry me. I could tell by the way he looked at me, and his air toward into the local room with a note in his me, that he felt that a kind o finsult hand. It looked like a note from a to him. It seemed to kind of grind woman and as though he had just got him, you see, that a girl like Bessie it. He was reading it as he came in; was going to marry a chap like me and he looked up in that smug way and says, 'Well, she says shell come. as though he couldnt stand for that. The city editors voice showed in- And then he talked a minute or two creasing tension and he wetted his dry about women that any of em will I thought it over nearly come if only theyre invited right, and lips again. all last night, Mr. Hinton, he re- so on. I was working at the time I understand it, but its hard and not looking up or paying any atpeated. to explain. You see, it was all in the tention although I had to hear what air all in suggestion with nothing he was saying. He walked over to anywhere that a fellow could really my desk and clapped me on the shoultake up without looking foolish. I der and said, 'Cheer up, old man! You look downcast! and laughed. Nothing know he talked to some of the boys young Wilkins and some others about in that, that a fellow could take up, |