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Show Wixkesuaure, Pa., has produced a woman who knows how to gut along in this world. When Mrs. Sarah Spencer discovered that her husband, Henry, seemed desirous of doing a large amount of nothing, she did net desert him. She was a veritable Mrs. Micaw-ber Micaw-ber in this respect. She reasoned with blm and proposed they settle tho matter in the wise of the Marquis of Queens-bury. Queens-bury. So a ring was made of the dining I'ooin and tbe two, secondless and alone, saving for the grandeur of feeling feel-ing that moved them, started in to settle the vexed question of to work or not to work. Instead of the usual clubhouse sign, "Gentlemen Will Please Not Smoke," the more aesthetic motto, "God Bless Our Home," looked down upon the uppsreuts and dodges and infighting infight-ing indulged in In the fourth round Mrs, Spencer succeeded in getting in a 6tem-winder which put Henry to sloep. He had been coming up groggy for two rounds, and this soaker sent him out. Mrs. Spencer is all right. Bye and bye, when ber action shall have become custom among women with husbands possessed of an antipathy antip-athy to bodily exertion, she will be better bet-ter understood. It matters not that a judge without the ability to look into tbo depths of Mrs. Spencer's pugilism discerned only the superficial fact of fighting and fined her a good round sum. The Salvation army is hopeful, so are the people who put money into the Graut monument. Why should Mrs. Spencer not expect that pugilism shall in time become a part of the domestic plan? Why indeed' |