Show y 1 I Faith in People I 1 IJ Io o J 1 By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Hell never make malce a living for her they pre pre- Ie He hasn't the pluck of a rabbit and hes he's as lazy as as in n extra tire It make you Jou sick the way she looks up at him with that adorIng smile added the malicious ma- ma licious ones As though shed she'd caught a Greek god for a a husband Instead of ot a nothing good simpleton Now as matter ot of fact the idle idie gossip was not without foundation The young husband in question was neither a Barney Barne Oldfield nor a. a Thomas Jeffer- Jeffer son lIe He was both slow and dull And the little bride had my sympathy with the rest What was my amazement some years later when a a. friend from the town they had moved to told me of their prosperity how come I asked RIch uncle die U If anyone died it Isn't the Corsons saId my frIend No o they have done It all themselves or rather Bob did lIes lIe's made his money himself They have their own house English type garage car and everything Must be bootlegging I was mean enough to remark re- re mark marlc I just couldn't Imagine Bo Dop Corson owning so much as a lemonade stand Or else Florida No Ko Neither lIe He has a store a thriving prosperous prosperous pros pros- hardware store Hes He's a splendid business roan man they say too I got the stor story I You see Bob was vas married young oung explaIned ray my friend He hadn't really gotten over that mental torpor that goes with growing muscles Hed He'd always always al- al ways been the family jol joke o and town Joke and he got to thinking ho he couldn't do anything right Then he met Margaret and from the very first she had faith In hIm She just took It for granted he could do things She didn't pretend she it-she really had faith In him She's lost It And It has made him They saved a bit out of his salary at first then he got a small chance In the store he kept books for tor and lie he knew enough to take it Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet still looks at him as though he was a a. god And hed he'd die I believe belleve rather ther than disappoint her f |