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Show SUE HIT IT. A I.ittle Girl's Goad Dcflnitloa of "Wife." The pretty school teacher, for a little di. vertiseuient, had asked her class for th best original dennition of '"wife," and th' boy iu the corner had promptly responded "A rib." says the tt. luil I'imixr 2'rrx.s. She looked at him reproachfully, and nod ded to tho boy with dreamy eyes, whJ seemed anxious to say something. "Man's guiding star and fruardian anjel,' he said in response to the nod. "A helpmeet," put in a little axen Laired pirl. . "One who soothes man iu adversity," sue gested a demure iiuie girl. '"And spend- his money when he's flush," added the inuurrisc'tie by in the corner. There was a lull, and a pretty, dark-eyed! girl said, slowly: "A wife is the envy of spinsters." "One who makes a mtu hustle," was tha aext suggestion. 0'And keeps him troni making a fool o2 himself," put in another girl. "Some one for a man "to lind fault wiUi when things go wroui," said a sorrowful little maiden. "Stop right there," said the pretty school teacher. "That'6 the best definition." Always .Something ti Worry liar It was once an Easter bontnt That her lovehiu4 d.d lack; But tue present source of sorrow is a tealsklu iaccjue. Yr'aahington Star. |