Show Made Fun o oft of Hubby and andI and I j Lost Him if By RUTH AGNES ABELING Henry Henr was a no continuous Joke to h her r. r Henry had hael a falling failing for purple sox sex nt Hlf wasn't a bit vain aln or anything of this sort but he found an unholy Joy In tJ Ing purple sox on Oil his feet reet at 7 a. a n m. m m aU at least three d days s 's out of or ever every week And Henrys Henry's wife wiCe thought purple were a Joke An And sho she told Henr Henry lenry so with acid In the laugh bugh which roughened her voice as sho she scoffed Then n Henry liked a certain sort of oC coN coi lar Ian It wasn't the lie close smart one ono that thai most mo l mon men wore but something that gars lIn hi his neck neel room to breathe as ns he MIl sai Henrys Henry's wife tittered over that collar and used to call can the company's attention to 10 it and poke polee fun at It until the part of H Henrys Henry's nry's neck which showed In the crack was purple and ho he stumbled off on pome some silly pretext or sat flat silently In a I corner of the tile sofa sorn looking Intently at thi monstrous toes of his monstrous shoes I An And Henrys Henry's feet feet they they were outrageously outrage large and Just like hi his hands h he be didn't use them with any too much grace His Ills wife wouldn't dance with him openly offered her lien sympathy to every i woman who came back from a session of It laboring over the floor noor AN inIth Henry madly clutching the back of her gown It became a regular thing with Ith Henrys Henry's wife wife this this lau laughing She never ble blessed his great big old dia diamond mond In the rough roush heart and anti told him bini that she knew he lie wasn't meant for a par lor br ornament and that they didn't need anything like tl that at around their flat anyhow She never told him that she sho loved Jo him himl Just b because ause bo ho was different and made madel her laugh laugh and and then took the barb out of ot other I her hel laugh rl And no so Henry became a self conscious silent man who clung with sullen ten ten- 1 acH to purple sox flax collars COnal'S which s set l laway I awa away and awkward ways as to feet until one da day a a. little butterfly swooped down a and 1111 Just loved the tho purple and thought the tho collars made him look Jook strong I and original and liked big awkward hands and feet fert on men because they ther made them look 1001 so nice and sturdy Henry Henr suddenly changing all of or WI hIl awkward self consciousness for some something some some-j thing called caned mastery went after the tho ga gay little butterfly nn and left hl his bl blI I wife with nothing to laugh at and ands a I great big empty empt place In her ner heart that she didn't even know was vas there until she I stopped laughing I |