Show k u Mt Copyright 1 1911 9 1 1 by North North American I Press Syndicate V A A J VICTORY t r rIt It really took a lot lotI of 01 sand to ask tor hand J JI I had stage fright so 10 bad I shook Just like J aa an M- M pen pm leaf leat Though two a et j Job 0 b requiring 4 4 nerve norve I 1 did not t let my purpose sw swerve j the I way gal WM was wa quite beyond b belief Her father was a misanthrope by reputation reputation rep rep- and no hope Was Wa-s offered mo me by anyone who ho knew Ills his crusty wasH ways was j jHa Ha Hs looked BO so fierce my taco face got hot and I got scared and quite forgot Th The speech that I had practiced on so faithfully for tor days 1 I stuttered and I stammered till th the tha theold old man thought I had a a. chill ij And nd seemed emed Inclined to help mo rue on j and have the matter done Before Defore I could quite understand hed he'd sped grasped mo rue warmly by the han hand And then I knew oh Joy of ot Joys jOS that I at last had won He r really lIy loosened up and smiled Just juet Hire a happy little child It t was the first time he had done a thing like liko that In itt years He was as so very gracious that I X thou thought ht that I could smell amelI a a. rat Im I'm not a superstitious man but he ha gave grave me mo some som tears fears The wedding bells bella rang RUtty gaily and the present were Just simply grand Id I'd won my Araminta and the world seemed glad and gay It was not lIko ilko my luck a a. bJ bit I thought there was some catch c. In lulL J t. t It didn't seem as though it could b bany be beany any army other way Then the awak awakening awakening- wa was wa due this Id I'd wo won m my Araminta true But it ft seems that Id I'd also won her hei father and her mother They're living living- with us In our flat fiat for tor good and then not only that But we have also with us now her sister am and her brother UNCLE PETER We had always alwa's heard of or Uncle P Peter as a rich relative who lived Jived down east cast We Vv-e had never known him Intimately It seems much more difficult dif dif dif- to become chummy with rich relatives than with poor ones but we had longed to know him and what Ismore Is Is' Ismore more to the point to have him know us So far tar as Uncle Undo Peter was concerned concerned con con- we had never existed and It was a a matter of constant regret to us One day a collect telegram came from one of the cousins down east The Th telegram read Uncle Peter will arrive e at yo your r house tomorrow MAGGIE j The great day had arrived at la last last last- arid and wo we stocked the larder dusted off the family Bible hung Uncle Peter cra crayon n portrait in the parlor where the light ht coul couldn't nt fall fail to hit it hired a French chef bought a lot of ot new io togs s and sat down lown to wait walt Later a j up follow telegram came and it read J Uncle Peter coming b by express MAGGIE By Br express We might have known there was a 3 catch in it somewhere No live rich uncle would ever come to toe see e us The Tho man was dead and now th that t the eastern relatives had hall used him as as' as j long as the they could coul they were were shipping shipping ship ship- ping him to us There was only on one tIming thing to todo do and and that was to hire an undertaker amIgo and amid go to meet the train with a hearse which w wa lid i Uncle Peter Ieter didn't show up and the theba ba said he hadn't seen nn anything any any- thing of him so we rushed back to the house where we found our wife sitting lu it solitary state s1 In the tho parlor Uncle Peter didn't come by ex- ex pres we bawled j Yes he did she replied with fine sarcasm You see he was my uncle and not hers Ho He Ho was delivered hereabout here her about fifteen minutes ago There he I Is pointing In the tIme general direction directionS of the piano Where we asked There on the piano in that nifty little urn 1 And there he was in the cutest lit 1 tie tle imitation solid gold tobacco Jar that you ever saw And there he Is J Jet yet et or 01 as much of or him as is left Various Various Va Va- rious hired girls have at various times ml mistaken the Identity of ot Uncle Pet Peter r and used him to scour th the brass work on the kitchen range He has also been terribly upset at times but we take pride in keeping as much as Is 1 possible of ot him with us for sentimental sentimental sentimental senti senti- mental reasons Undo Uncle Peter alwa always S reminds us us' of what a person can get I alon along without if he het has to The cousins down east got his money A shipment of ot American tomatoes ns M a a. test was recently made to Sheffield England It was a success succesS' scarcely a a. tomato being bruised during the pas pas- sage saJe |