Show t f i THE BALCONYSCENE FlAT PLAYLET ENACTED DY THIRSTY INDIVIDUAL SUP Out While WhileWaiting Waiting for leo WaterBang I Went Window But a Flower Pot Saved Him Ever occur to you what would hap Pen to > ou If you lost the iso of Jour legs 1 asked tho mall In tho subway train who had rend tho news Paper of tho man whoso wife took his No not yet was the crusty an SWerLho Live In an apartment dont you persisted tho other Who dont laconically answered the other I Listen said the man next to tho aisle My apartment Is on tho seventh sev-enth floor Hlversido drlvo Wife wont to Chicago yesterday morning when I got homo last night I telephoned tele-phoned to the olllco for a pitcher of Ico water What time was It sarcastically broke In tho man on the outside Oh I needed It all right but It wasnt because of that I am telling you about It While I waited I opened the French window to the balcony bal-cony and stepped out Bang The wind had closed tho door and It i was caught on tho Inside Oh well I said to myself tho boy will soon como with the leo water wa-ter That s lucky Ho camo rang the bell and waited I shouted but could not make him hear It was getting cold on tho balcony Then the telephone rang and I knew they wanted to know If I really wanted that Ice water Finally that stopped People dont pass along tho street often that late at night Or so early In the morning said his companion But after aboutten minutes along camo two three oclocks I shouted down to them At first they laughed at me and then they went In to toll tho people in the office that thqro was a crazy man on the roof Then those bright people telephoned again and of course I could only pounl tho door Then I got desperate There was a leftover flowerpot out there with which I had been keeping company and I picked It up and hurled It through the glass Tho rest was easy and I reached In and turned the catch Now suppose said tho talkative oner had been 111 In bed and dying of thirst Would they have brokem In tho door I guess not they would have been telephoning yet IOU you had been your wife would I have been homo and If your wife hat been home you would not have needed the Ice water eh parried the other as he tQok his revenge by glvlrig his place to a woman Now York Herald |