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Show ! Fables for the Fair MKN AMI -MIMKTICRIX AX-KI.." Copyr.slit. IK. (Stw Vrk Kvnini World) by I'rBi t'ubllshlna; ".. , By NAhtil KM I I r. ttiMiKHit MAR. SHALL. MORAL. Uhr a sii la III. Ike Oe-U Oe-U wf a iraaKk haa he! Now 1 know Why a tiained nurse Is cairn and cool and Impniuiive, Why she rarely. If ever, out.ilde a beat allr. niairies her patient, Fhe la calm, and the rtat of It. .because utter one experience tn nura-; nura-; Ing a man. she lorka ua all her emotions emo-tions and sensibilities in an airtight a . . , supply? It has not. So he charges at his wire one more. Wantlngr to know why ahe never has anything In tha house. Anybody (meaning himself) might die for the want of a little ordlmry medicine' Thus begtnneth the perfect day In ths coune ut which he snarls at the partner of his sorrow, Becaust th grocery boy didn't cloe the kitchen door gently. Because the telephone bell rings. ' Hecai'tse t he house Is too hot. 1'erause It too cold. Uecause she hasn't anything he tan eat. compartment. For lite duration of the cas. She doisn't marry her patient lie' a u h ehs pretYrs not to know beforehand be-forehand Just what a combination of cry-baby hyena and school bully Her hunland really la when a cold or a slrk headache, or a toothache Makes him slip his amhltinnr and forget for-get ihj manners his mother taught htm And act like something out of the oo! Of course. If the poor dear la really III. It a a difVrnt matter, No woman would be so mean and petty then ua to criticise his sickbed behavior. be-havior. But rthfn he li well out of the danger dan-ger si ne. Or when he never has been In It however ureal his dlncopifort Why should he acc ao? A man Dnnki too much home brew. ! Kate too much Krench pastry. looks upon the loonier when It Is red. I Gets his feet w et because he hates to I wear rubbers. I BecHuse he Imagines she can think of eating anything. Because the children come home from school and make a noli. I'ecaue they ara lata In coming home. Because there s dust on the piano player. Eecauna she's too "eaay with the V maid. . Becft iite oh ventures the remark that V It looks nice outdoors, Brcatme she doesn t hear some muttered mut-tered complaint. And politely a,ks him to repeat It. ' V,e "h lniUlr- snxloualy how ne Because she tries to distract his mind f from his feelings. Because she hopes he'll feel better tomorrow. to-morrow. Because shs tries to do little things for him. Because she lets him alone. Truly when her husband la 111. a wife s damned if she does, and damned If aha doesn't Tt was a man poet Who assured womsn that When pain snd anguish wrinr the brow imim A ministering angel thou!" I'd like to see "thou" on such a Job, that a all! Let any woman try to be a "minister- Jng anaei- to a man with a colJ. .or. lck headache, or a toothache' Bhe II aoon find out that an angel's Place is not in his home-Just home-Just hearing the Isnguage spilled around would paralyse a heavenly visitant. She d think she had got Into the-other Flare by mistake. You couldn't blame hart t Puts off goinsj to a dentist, Does som other silly, fool thing for whl h his outraged organs Ins st en his paying the penally. And he proceeds t I'iSist en his wife s paying it, vicariously! He gels out of hed with a headache. a streaming nose, a pain, a grourli. When a man Is ill, the devil of a grouch has he! On being told thst breskfast la reajv, he treats the news as a personal affront. I m not golnt to eat any breakfaat!" I he exclaims. In the tone once copy, righted by Southern colons' a, for use when somebody reflected on the honor hon-or of the family. Ft I ll, he alts down st the tahle "Of courae. I've got to have my cof- fee " And anarls at every remark whether addressed to him or not. Indeed, be gets up quite a glow volunteering vol-unteering flat contradict ina of remarks re-marks not addressed to him. When he haa reduced tha family to cowering, or glowering iUnra. , According to their temperaments, He atumps off to his morris chair. Pate his head In his hands I And preparea for the worst. i Hie wife timidly mentions a doctor. "1-octor!" he snorts savagely "No! ' I don't want a doctor - "Toil know I never want' a doctor' wby do you sugaest it? "He can t do anything'" I Half an hour later he demands aome I "household remedy." ! Of which he himself too), the last drop i during a previous sttsck Has it occurred to him to renew the I |