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Show A LEMON INSTEAD. "Do .vou know," a prettr bride of three months said to a friend the other day, "I think all these jokes about young wives having' so much trouble with butchers and grocers, and being cheated, and all that, is just too foolish." fool-ish." ; "Then I presume yon are getting on all right with yours, dearf " ber friend inquired. " , ' ' Why, of fourse,' I am ! Anybody wonld it. they would just deal at. a reliable re-liable place," the young wife declared. "Kow there is my grocer." she coa-tinued, coa-tinued, "he is just as obliging and thoughtful at he can be. The other day I ordered a dozen orange, and when. they came I. found there were but eleven in the bag, so when I went to the store again I told him so. .. " 'Why. yes, madam,' he said 'I knosr there were, I aBld put in . av dozen, but I noticed that one of them was spoiled and of course I wouldn't send you any but the best goods, so l took it out.' ' i . . , ' "Now don't you think that was nice in him to be, so thoughtful-and honest!"-1- ahe concluded.- Harper V 1 . ... J |