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Show Looking Forward. Mr. Wiggins, being in a frivolous mood, was giving a burlesque imitation imita-tion of palmistry pretending to read his wife's fortune in her palm. Six-year-old Ruth was listening with intense seriousness, but neither of them was noticing hr. "And, finally," he concluded, after the usual recitals about a dark man, a light roan, a journey, and a large fortune, for-tune, "you will live to a great age." "Thank God!" broke in Ruth, clapping clap-ping her hands ecstatically. "Then my children will have a grandmother!" |