Show COUld NOT Oll I ii ll A It Is related that when Rudyard Kip Ip Kipling ling hog lived In America he tried a system of ot paying all nil household expenses by checks Naturally those cheeks checks varied In amOunt most moat of at them beIng small the tha majority were about n it dollar or so ao Butchers Hutchers bills grocery ills were sol seL tied promptly III In this fashion nod and of 01 course Mr check chuck book blok at nt home provided him with wi an accurate amount of ot expenditure But when ho lie sent In the bank book monthly to be ex examined time the result would never balanco He lIe Invariably that the amount to 10 his Is credit was greater than Ihan It ought to tobe toIe toie Ie be and ho he tried to persuade himself that this was owing to his own de defective bookkeeping or his own bad head for It was only by b occident t that he ho dis discovered dIscovered covered the secret Many fan ot o the small checks were never nevor presented at nt allf their value us liS autographs was greater than their bank value lIlue Tradesmen sold Bold them hem to 0 customers at nt a n profit 1 Instead of 01 finding their way 1 to the bankers hankers the checks were treasured Visit lug In nt at a house Kipling hall had the pleasure or the reverse of ot fleeing cooing Quo UDO Of df his checks hanging rained framed on onlie the lie wall It was a n check chitek given shen for a n case of ot bottled beer No o wonder the tho novelists books would not balance IJ In at the discovery ry he Is said to hl VI burnt his check book and In fu tu future U ture paid nIl all accounts In hard hord cash London Golden Penny |