Show Inn at the Ta leAn I An Austin man read in the paper that the family should always bo the scene of laughter and merriment and that no meal should be passed in tho moody silence si-lence that so often characterizes those occasions The idea struck him so favorably favor-ably that when his family was gathered around the table that evening he said i I Now this sort o thing of keeping so I blamed mum at meals has got to stop You hear me You girls put in an tell stories an keep up agreeable sort o talk like an you boys laugh mid bo jolly or Ill take and dust your jackets with a grapevine till you cant stand Now begin be-gin Tho glare that ho sent around the table made the family as funny as a funeral i Texas Siftings |