Show SELLS HIS OLD COFFIN Is Out of Style So Aged Mans Wife Has Him Dispose of It Hatton Palsnac Coffman a few days ago sold a coffin he had mado many years ago He sold it not because be-cause he felt bo would have no use for It but because his wife insisted that It was out of date Mr Coftman is nearing his eightieth birthday He explained to a friend that he constructed the coffin 20 years ago at a time when plans for future had to bo made It was built of chestnut chest-nut because us ho put it Manys the time I hao sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut logs and heard them crackle and burn merrily It makes such a homelike blaze that I picked it in preference to other woods It was my desire to make tho coffin as cozy as possible and I rejected reject-ed he frivolities which so many per son affect In the matter of coffins In order to havo tt handy I kept It In tho garret But my wife tolls me that styles have changed and since I have accumulated ac-cumulated a little fortune she will not permit mo to die unless I consent to get an uptodate casket To avoid trouble I agreed to sell the old one Hut at the sarao time I think that the coffin which was good enough fo mo in my poorer days should satisfy mo now and I shall always feel out of place In the newfangled affair |