Show One for tho MotherInLaw One ol the most charming raconteurs in Milwaukee society Is Mrs Thomas II I3owles She Is 0 Georgian and knows the negro dialect to perfection I Nothing could be more finished than I her durky stories Hero Is one of her best A young man was telling anecdotes to a circle ant one of his llslenero was his motherinlaw He related ono about a funeral A woman had died The undertaker at the close of the services at the house said to the bereaved husband You will ride In the first carriage with your motherinlaw I decline to ride with that woman said the widower She has made mIle m-Ile < miserable To ride with her would spoil all the pleasure of the occasion All laughingly appreciated the humor hu-mor ol1 the story except the young mans niothorlnlaw Why didnt you laugh he asked I was a good story Oh luIe rCPt I was thinking of another story about a colored minster min-ster who prayed one day for rain like this Oh Lord sen us a rain Thou knowcst dH do craps Is aspilln Thou knowest chit dc cattle on I tousand hllls am Hporlshln fo water Sen usa us-a rain oh Lord Not one ob ycr drizzles driz-zles Sen us a downpour a gully W88nIJn irashDftin rain An old mammy In the back part of the church called out Look hyar pardon whuff o1 yo pray datowayV Why you pray for n trnshllftln rain Dpan yo member dat r done l bury rat triflln Chicago sonlnlaw Chronicle o mine last week |