Show FAMILY INCIDENTS Iffir Wingleby Comments Upon Him selfand His Household I you could walk behind yourself once you would be surprised said lr Wingleby to her husband and Mr Win sleby dutifully said that he had no doubt of i Mrs Wingleby had been trying to tell him what an old man he was setting to be so shambling and careless in his walk and he was obliged to admit that there was truth in this as t there was indeed in everything that Mrs Wingleby said but when he tried < to picture to himself himself walking behind himself why really and truly It made him feel quite young again My energetic daughter said Mr Wingleby wants t know why you couldnt dust with a bellows and I tell her that you could after a fashion I would be handy no doubt you wouldn t have to bend over so much with it and you could poke the nozzle into corners and arounu bark into places that you could not otherwise as conveniently reach and i certainly would blow otf the thick of the dust But for thorough perfect dusting theres nothing like thi dust rag and I do not look to see tnj dust rag supplanted in careful households house-holds leastIn eitner the near or the distant future i Now here was something said Air J Wingleby that tried Mrs Wingleby sorely She sent out a pair of shots belonging be-longing to one of the children to lie r iIgn and when they came home ul nicely fixed the little one couldnt get them on Then Mrs Wingleby discovered discover-ed that she had sent out the wrong pall a pair that had been outgrown and discarded dis-carded but whIch Mrs Wingleby who hates to throw away anything had put back in the coset and which she had now picked up by mistake So here was SO cents locked up beyond recovery just gone but she was not long cast down tor nothing can long impair her accustomed accus-tomed cheerfulness I have read pieces in the papers about lead pencils said 11 Wingleby about the great quantities of wood used in ther manufacture and the enormous numbers num-bers produced and al that and I usd to wonder what became of them all but i dont now my four children must ue up the production of one small factors at least They start out with four to six lend pencils apiece and next morning thv have about two short stubs apiece left The outlay for pencils is an importiint item In the family account but I suppose sup-pose the children have got to have lead pencils I discovered a long time ago said Mr Wingleby that there was a whole lot of words that i didnt know how to pronounce words that I suppose I ought to have known about but which I didnt JVIy first discovery of this sort was when I heard somebody pronounce a familiar word ir a manner that was totally different dif-ferent from that in which I had be > n accustomed to pronounce i myself I looked that word up in the dictionary and found that the othr man was riglv and I was wrong I made me shudder to think of the many times I had mispronounced mis-pronounced that word and I fear that I used ± t thereafter for a while at least oftener than was reany necessary jut to let people know that I knew how to pronounce i I |