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Show Can You Describe Your Wife? "Say. you, Mr. Married Man," said a Coates houso hotel clerk to an acquaintance acquaint-ance this morulug, "I'll make a little bet with you. You've boon a victim of matrimony mat-rimony for five years, but I'll wager a good cigar thnt you can't, 'off hand,' tell your wife's height, weight and the color of hor eyes nnd hair. Quick now without with-out slopping to think Is it a go?" "Sure," replied the married man. "I'll smoke on you." ''All right, go ahead with the descrip- 11011. isui uc careiui t am acquainted with her. What does she weigh?" "A hundred and thirty-three. That's easy we both got weighed a few days ago." "Very good. What's the color of her hair?" "Why, black; that Is, pretty near black a sort of brownish black, with a kind of a cr reddish tinge." "Get out, "that doesn't go. Iteddlsh-black-brown doesn't mean anything. How tall Is she?" "Well, the top of her head just comes to my chin, and I am fivo feet eleven Inches. She's about let me seo about five feet two." "What's the color of her eyes?" "Blue no. by Jinks! I believe they're gray. Confound It. I guess I lose tho bet. Seems to me one eye Is blue, but I distinctly remember looking at ono of them the other day and it was gray. Or, maybe it was one of my stenographer's stenog-rapher's eyes 1 noticed. Darned if I know." "Just so," scornfully remarked the hotel clerk. "But never mind, you do as well as tho average man. Not. ono in ten can give an accurate description of his wife. "I saw an Instance o it this morning In tho Milwaukee railway ticket olilce. An old married man was buying tickets for himself nnd wife tho tickets that havo descriptions of the purchaser punched In them and he couldn't get his wife's transportation until he had gone home and taken a look at her. Fact." Kansas City Star. |