Show HEARD ON THE SIDE And who is there so coldblooded and calculating as would rise from communion with a treasured book for the purposo of putting out a cheap and worldly Illuminator Illumina-tor asks Eugene Field in the Chicago IVeirs There are some we know who shrewdly avail themselves of an ingenious patented arrangement which is attached to a gas jet It has appended thereto two slender chains one of which turns up and the other of which turns down the gas I the reader does not get too far gone in his delightful avocation tis easy enough to reach one hand feebly up and pull at the chain which abates the light Still the confirmed the Simonpure tho glorious bedreader never extinguishes his light II twould strike him as a kind of profanation to turn from a feast with Horace or with Donne to the vulgar and debasing occupa tion of putting out gas or blowing down 11 lamp chimney or of puffing at a candle He lets the light blaze away God bless him and presently his wife natters in from a yonder chamber determined this time that she will wake him up and give him a round scolding for his heartless extravagance but when tOe dear lady sees him slumbering so peacefully his precious book just beyond his fingers his face illumined with a smile that accrues from saintly dreamsshe relents re-lents she extinguishes the blazing light herself and conscious of having done her duty as a wife and as an economist she patters pat-ters back again to that yonder chamber There is no doubt or trouble about this every wife will do it seven times a week providing she has been caught young well broken and discreetly trained Gene has apparently been there |