Show TALES OF THE DAY A Hallucination He walked briskly into the telephone exchange and said Can you fix me some telephone connections con-nections so that the wires will make a complete circuit You mean In such a way that what you say will be transmitted around the line and sound in your own ear said the man in charge Thats it exactly Yes Stop into that room and well arrange ar-range it for you As he departed a stranger who happened hap-pened to be in the office remarked Thats the most remarkable request I ever heard I It does seem peculiar but the man is perfectly harmless and we humor him Who lu haT Hes a crank who imagines he Is Tom Watson He wants to notify himself of his nomination Washington Star Surprised 2Iis Denn They hstd been married as were a few other people last June The flavor of the J Lt d Jt J I roses hung above them still says the I New York Mercury I This was the day and this the hour when they would have been married precisely j I pre-cisely three months I Werent you awfully frightened asKed Mrs Dearest again Indeed I was responded Mr Dearest Dear-est also again The waves came as near as they dared without seeming to be eavesdroppers Wasnt it nice of me to straighten out your dressing room for you she asked with the irrelevance that is part of a honeymoon Mr Dearest did what is proper How funny of you to have two complete com-plete sets of brushes and things and Mrs Dearest absently pulled out her sleeves Mr Dearest gazed solemnly at the waves They winked and nodded How prettily the letters are twisted over everything K D is difficult as a rule I love your nameKenneth repeated re-peated Mrs Dearest softly According to the waves her husband lost his head or it would never have happened hap-pened The fact Is sweetheart he said with a spasm of honesty one set of those things was returned to me just before we were married A big wave pushed the little ones back as he crowded forward Who was the girl asked the bride coldly The waves fell back in fright So did Mr Dearest But it was too late We were never really engaged you know he began hurriedly No I dont know severely But that WBseran exchange of gifts occasionally Who was sheEr she-Er O Katherine Dear Her initials are the same as mine you see replied Mr Dearest feebly as if this were a pallation Mrs Dearest started Then she smiled maliciously You ought to have told me before You have only got yourself to blame Like the Moldy in the song put in her husband with a weak humor and with the unsportsmanlike idea of tacking because be-cause the breeze freshened Because went on Mrs Dearest with stony impressiveness yesterday was Miss Deans birthday and we always give each other something and I thought it a pity to spend my own money when there were plenty of things in your quarters you would not need now and so I sent her off a couple of the black and silver brushes with our best wishes The waves crept up to hear But there was nothingonly a feeling silence |