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Show MINDS M COMPLETE ACCORD for Once, at Least, Mr. and Mrs. Smith Found Themselves in Absolute Harmony. "We are united in this movement," said Thomas M. Reed, a Denver physiologist, physi-ologist, apropos of a fight against the drug habit. "Yes, a single thought possesses us. and in that respect we're like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. "At 3 a. m. of a hitter cold morning Mrs. Smith in her thin nightgown was pacing the floor with her colic-tormented babe in her arms. The babe's squawks of pain were terrible, yet they were easily drowned by the ear-splitting roars of young Smith. Jr., who tossed about his crib with a toothache. tooth-ache. "Mr. Smith, shivering in his pajamas, bent over the washstand, trying to prepare a cotton filling for his son and a mustard plaster for his babe, when his wife's voice, scarcely audible above the uproar, reached him. " 'John,' she said, 'if seven yea-rs ago, I could have looked forward and beheld this scene, do you know what I'd have done?' " 'Yes, love,' Smith answered. You'd have done just what I wish I'd done.' " |