Show THE REFORMER REFORMED Chicago Post She married marie a man to reform him she felt fel that her white little hand Could lead him away from his errors eror and deftly and ad surely she planned She showed him the evils paned resulting from tom drinking the stuff sold at bars She got him to shut ef f his swearing she got him to cut out cigars She got him to stop poker playing she cured all al the faults he possessed Until of the worlds list of husbands she had the most perfect and best best He shuddered at ways that were sinful he woul nt be way caught using slang He Re shunned all al the rollicking measures the coarse unregenerate sang He dressed In a style very ver solemn and nd rarely If ever he smiled And reading the news of the te drama was conduct he thought rather wild So now that she had been successful she folded her fingers in pride And said sd that he ought to be thankful that he had won her as his bride Oh listen 1 I One day in a manner most sol solemnly solemnly solemnly sober and quaint He turned to the wife who reformed him and with wih all al the grace gace of a sint sintHe saint He told her It filled fled him with wih sorrow to note her enslavement to dress That also aso her fondness for candy was wa ter terrible terrIble terrible he must confess confes And further he mentioned each ech foible each fancy and each little fad And showed her just where it was wa foolish though maybe not utterly bad She had to stop curling her ringlets she sho had to wear number five shoes All Al club cub tI she then had to MV r be because because cause cuse It i was wrong to pay P Y dues She had to leave lea e off wearing ribbons and fanciful buttons butt ns and lace She had to wear we commonsense clothing and never put stuff on her face She had to but why go on telling the things thing sho she must do or must not not Reformers Reformer who meet with reforming are much like a catcher caught caught At last she was perfectly perfect as per perfect perfect feet Indeed as a was wa he he And both were as perfectly perfect as 88 perfectly perfect could be bp But she grew gew morose and unhappy and he was quite quie grouchy go chy and ad glum For neither r ith r could find In the other a I fault that might be overcome taul And then with wih a shiver of ot daring she came mm to her good side aide And said Now No weve wee shown we are ar per perfect perfect fact backslide b dont you think we would wo ld better beter |