| Show 0 If w Cot Copyright br 1913 bj The p Press Publishing Co f r n 3 UT T those marbles a away wa I r erica cried p Mrs Airs Tarr Tan And how she did it with Ith only onh two o pairs of hands Mr 11 Jarr Jart could never nc have told you rou that fond mother swoop swooped d down on Master Jarr raised him to his feet red gathered up nil all hIs marbles buttoned his Jacket smoothed his hair hall slapped him n. n few times where hero it It would do the most good shook ok him about a bit and ami ordered him to get et ethis his overcoat and hurr hurry off oft to school chool all nil at it the same sarno time But I want my mr marbles raw maw I Iwas Iwas' Iwas was was' just waK-just just counting them In the h hall J. J I wasn't pla playing with them maw Deed I wasn't I l II Ir lI I r wont won't have hao them under m my feet teet to trip and fall falI over replied d Mrs ll's JarrA Jarr A A dozen times you OU have hae promised mo not to Play pIn with your our marbles in the house And yet et you ou have e the tho piano baso base and m l the thc chair le legs 8 all marked up where 1 youve you've been shooting shooting- the marbles marbles mar mar- bl bles s In the parlor Youve got the drain from the the- Ice Ico Icebox Icebox box stopped from one that ran under the refrigerator and pot got In the drain Youve You've broken a window throwing a marble at the tho cat and Ill I'll have e to send Bend for tor Mr SI and that will cost me what me-what what did I S say last laft time Yes 7 75 io cents cents ht It lt will cost me 8 85 So cents because every evor time Mr comes cornes to put In Jn glass ho tells me prices have bone grono up tip So Just for that Ill I'll keep tho marbles Oh Olt dont don't sequester the tho bo boys boy's s playthings playthings play play- things thinS's Just because the cost of ot living has bas advanced ad said Mr Ir Jarr Boys Bos cant can't help playing marbles That's rl right ht Ta Take c Willis Willies s 's part and andset andset andset set him against me mC er e every time I endeavor endeavor en en- cn- cn deavor to correct him cried Mrs Irs JarrIll Jarr Jan Ill be bc good I wont won't take the thc marbles marbles marbles mar mar- bles out of at my m pocket honest I wont won't maw sniffed the bO boy m my marbles marble please maw I wanna vanna so to to school Do you ou mean to tell mo ma that you OU want 1 to pIa play marbles on the cold ground In n thi this bitter February erp cried Mrs Jarr The Thc idea This is the hc wrong ron time of ot year to pIa play mar mar- bles hIes Ill I'll put them awa away for or you until June or Jul July when tho the weather is warm Ruck Huck Truck Huck walled balled Master Jaster Jarr Tarr dry sobbing in his great grief f Marble Marblo time Ume Is now no maw Vo We 0 wont won't be marbles in summer And nd h why wont won't you be playing mar- mar I Q 0 fi fitiles tiles bes in summer Summer Is the thc best time So you'll either play pIa In summer summer sum sum- mer or you wont won't play at all Im I'm gong go- go n ng to lock those marbles marble up That will 1111 keep keel you vou from Crom scratching up tho the floors and breaking everything e in the with them An And It will also keep you from kneeling on tho the col cold pa pavement pavement pave pave- e- e ment in this hitter blUer weather Why h you OU camo came home last st night with your our knees out of or your OUr stockings H and amI your our hands han s were vero all aU grimed cHimed an and l raw and ami bleeding from Cram the cOl cold No 0 wait wall till sensible weather before you ou pIa play marbles 1110 r boy oy burst into a bitter wall of or grief and and Mr Ir Tarr Jarr came to the rescue Mother he said softly you 1 0 may mayas as well try tn to set act back the course orthe ot or the tho tides the rising of the sun or the stirring of or the lira sap Imp th the running of or water vater or tho the growing of the tho grass all grass all allin in their due and appointed times times as a as to endeavor to make malte marble marblo time come caine before or after aftel February kite time before before before be be- fore or after late lato March or earl early April Caddy In Ar Arii Ar H and May Ia and each In their appointed season pa playing ball or going barefoot It is the law and observance of boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood since before times was measured that tho the antediluvian kid crept from the stone n age c caves caes as the sun grow grew stronger and stayed lon longer longor or In mid Feb ruan and rolled round pebbles and knuckle bones upon tin ground with his shrieking savage sa primordial playmates playmates play play- matesI mates mates- I I dont don't know kno what you ou are talking about said sald Mr Mrs Jarr but do you ou mean to tell me mg that boys bOYR MUST play marbles In February and March The They must musto replied Mr i Jarr Noone Xo No o one knows win why No o whisper Is heard of or it Hut But In mid February marbles appear appear ap ap- pear and boys bos play pIa with witti them rain hail hall snow thaw or warm spell matters not It is JS th the tho LA LAW LAIl hat Vw lw asked Mr tl Jarr The primordial l In taut law said Mr Ir Jarr Oh bother you OU and your our nonsense replied d Mrs Jarr Tarr You mean Its It's the fashion with boys bos Here Willie 11 II e take tale takei I i your our marbles I The Man an on t the theRoa e oa BY II u. T. T 1 BATTIN Copyright 1913 by The IUs Pr bing Cul CulIN Co IN IS RUSSIA t i MET a l man the other da day who lira I been selling Roods goods In began tho the cigar salesman Jj R 11 said he had made mado lots of or money was waR Interested In his story and nd aske If the spoke the spike language Dont have havo to ho replied you you ca get et a college professor there for tor ti fifty a week weel to go along and do th tb talking I was selling Helling photograph views of ot the thc world wOrld the tho kind you t taki tak taka k a slant at nt through a n. stereoscope Ate Alit you rou sell them tho the pictures they hay hav hayto hayto to bu buy the machine to look at the with They arc aTC not used to Lo being c car can canvassed n In Russia and are aro very poUt about It lt Though they arc surprise that you ou call the they do not show it t In that country the think that the they can get het et better price puce h by waiting for tor business to come t te them Instead of or going after aCter the bust bus ness as we do A About hou t every other cal th professor proCessor would translate back t me the answer of ot the tho victim Is is It no most extraordinary that you ou call on u for your our business I 1 would that the dealers only carry a fc few hint h dred views but hut that I had thousands The first day da I would woul show only for tor foreign i eign The next day lay I would cal al with a 0 porter to deliver the purchase These I would have to sort out fro fron the stock with me In this wa way I would woul get to stowing stow In lug ing them more pictures and some o 0 otheir oj their own country Before they kne what the they were doin doing I J would sell the their the about abou t. t 30 worth getting double th tb prices we ask In this country Tb mOne money was plentiful an and I sent hat hal homo home to my wife What was he doing now now asked thai th linen man t. t Selling tooth paste warranted t stop d decay ca I fell for Cor a tube on th the strength of or his story about lius Russia y And I guess uess his stor story wa was as asas PhOny as his paste commented the linen man |
