Show I iA A New Tale Husbands Husban s Version and an Take Your Pick By KENNETT HARRIS PROFESSOR P recently wrote an article Instancing the remarkable unreliability of ot the tup statements of ot perfectly reliable eyewitnesses eyewitnesses nesses S of ot any anT particular event The ease case of ot Mr and tire Sir r in re the Burlingame apartment fir might have hat been added to the list of ot discrepancies Mr Yr was reading About an ana 4 4 0 D De a e e 0 l ee t tv v I n tal Returning with his derby hat on apartment hou house bouse e fire only onh about a week before To urn I his usual au audience lie he ob observed ered d tenths of the and tow leas of ot life by tires tire Is I caused by lIy losing their I beads beada The fhe ordinary sense en fn o that they UP are rp blessed with seems to to desert df them at t the critical moment and the result re lIlt is i of or curse course c disastrous Forethought Is altogether wanting too I and that seems strange for Oreg arc are HO no longer I among amo the possibilities they are ht hl probable In the event ent of ot a fire In this building I know exactly what I should do I have often otten thought it over oer I should pro proceed reed In a systematic manner to preserve pr ene our lives and the most valuable property I that we have hare I should be so scared to death that I Idon don dont t know what I should do said Mrs As Mrs Dunwoodie Tells It Without being duly dol sworn Mrs Yrs Dunwoodie Dun woodie nevertheless affirmed to a friend in substance and noll effect aa as At between the hours of ot 12 p m and andI 1 I a I m February 1920 19 0 deponent shook snook her husband br by br the shoulder and said Henry I 1 smell something burning Her husbands reply was a 1 strangled snore Mr Ir says that he is a avery avery avery very light sleeper and a breath or the lightest footstep will awaken WIlken n hint him instant instantly ly lr whereas deponent avers nothing short shOtt I of ot a stream of ot water wItter from an inch and a half bait hose hOte will will nil usually brio bria bring him to a sense seas lieD of ot the realties of ot life at any anT unwonted hour In this instance nce however n a 1 visor vigor vigorous out ous application of ot an elbow did the bud busi business ness uess Eh Eb what said Mr Yr drowsily mazzer mazzer Something burning around here said Mrs In Dont you ou understand Henry HenrI Fire Firel Mr odle made a leap out of ot bed that took him into the centre of ot the room The next moment he w was S fumbling the window fastening Dont open that window entreated I Mrs II They My ay that it a draught Do you yeu smell it Smell It shouted tier Iter husband er eT of n course roune I smell swell it IL Then he h e ST l seemed suddenly to te r II left lAft the window and snapped m 08 h Jig high h hills ills His face faro was rail pale pall lint but his hiB express l was calm de calm Now dont allow allo yourself t to get tb fn li 1 ened Isabel bp III MM said aud and added rc i c D selous of the obvious truth of ot the remark hU if people kept fOOl cool at tires fires they won wouldn Inn t get burned Get on your year things gs qui Uj but dont get ft excited TIle The sliver is In iu the tau tn sideboard drawer luHt ItT It Walt Henry Heary said Hid Mrs rt I think that Dont waste time in la toa I yourself f This drawers leaked Io kI 1 course COI Ill Why WIll deat do dea t you rOil get up and dress yourself OIl w ft r rI I wanted to tell you that Disappears Under Tinder the Bed d Dont tell me anything I where n the nation Are you rou going gel g to t dress your yourself self Without waiting f for r a reply tie he threw himself o os Ills stomach and nd began bean to toMy wriggle lp under tile the Md bed what t are IN j IOU w forT for asked Mrs My rs Mr Du shrieked Where b re are my ml trousers folded en the bark of the hair har ha harHut r But Hut Henry H ell ry if It Jud ke Itc calm cahu and lleren Ito to me a Moment t What hat are you doing now DO Mr Dunwoodie dle lad had taken his hill trousers and d after All rolling roiling rollin theta them into a tight wad 3 1 had crammed them theta In Ibio la a waste waite baske bakr Than he be Jerked dow dew two pictures from the Ibe wall anti and wrapped nipped them in a 1 blae His Ills wildly roiling rom It eyes eves next fell tell ou on the tha and n l th that t l the trousers j oJ athe the tUf t basket He lit teen smug open the tb do dor Sr r rand and aDd rushed out oat of the room returning return g almost with his Ills derby hat i uthe u 14 uthe the tb bad back of his bis he hear d stet and a in n his b hand in the shawl wl J he attempted to II his bk bed in of t drag wife wile from Irow tile the spire 1 her ber protects ji I cheese fw e floury Heary cried the e t s Cheese Cb Listen te to me mt DO DOI now I She spoke polle in Ia the voice owe that she resent for wc sl sad lad Mr Yr a listened Stop that fO B new W i ithe the lady lay and aaU go ro aad see If I haven left the dumb waiter shaft att seen in me till kitchen 1 I b believe its that wetter Welter girl In Inthe G n the flat below trying her new di Heres the Other Version Mr saki Eaid Now X 1 IU PH give you rou an instance The Theother other night ay my wife wove woke me up that th there re was wag a Ore fire in the For enough there was a s 1 of ot burn burning lag She Shea g grather rather lm imaginative at hut but I J oud do df detect teet the odor of ot charred wood sad and paper 1 She beg began u to call aU Fire Ill t at once fI bb hu hut I f stopped h her r Kc Ito n alm my dear I said and 1 I will Investigate I went tit t 0 to the dumb dumbwaiter dumbwaiter waiter waltor abaft batt aad d sure store enough f uh it was wu open I f and aDd after sniffing for tor 1 a It or r two I 1 swelled S ch cheese b e I reaB d at once that i they bad bud Deed been mak l a rabbit or something in the flat fiat below bedorr ours rs and had probably spilled the l ol and S had a n little blaze bUVe The sound of voices vol sW laughter that I I heard beard a NI the be 1 and I went ID t beef back and reas reau red ired MT my I Now I 1 don du r brag aha t It lt but Its ire just justi i the ef presence o of f mm mind j jaad and aad th the a s i re e of or i j if I been cool 1001 and kept ke t rv ry brad head 1 I might alight just Juat as likely have haTe started a peek as got |