Show I THE JARR FAMILY i j By Roy L L. McCardell I 1 W ni t by y Ue tte rr Ir Fui ru ll Co ci pit ir RS Es JARR TARR asked askelI Did you pay payI M MRS that bill b at the butchers butcher's I VI Sure replied Mr Jan Jan- JanI I stopped in there Just now and settled it Well 1 I had half a mind mint not to pay it it- it began Mrs 1 Tarr Jarr You had a whole mind to that effect ef teet interrupted Mr Jarr I paid It It Its Ils all aU the same same same-it it will ill come out of my money retorted Mrs Jan Jarr And now I wont won't be able to get my new flew hat fixed I had the feathers on I that old shape fixed over oyer at the curl curl- ers eli oh its it's a good tiling thing you rou have havea a saving saying and economical wife and wife and andall all an I I need now no is one of or the tho new aud and other trimmings trimmings- shapes some and its it's terrible what they charge you for fort the tIle trimmings of a a and hat hat and now I 1 haven't the mone money to pay for tho the shape and fixings B just through your our paying that old bill bull Hero Here Mrs Jarr paused for breath and Mr Ml Jarr Jan got a chance to say You told me mc 1 I must drop in ill and d pay the bill didn't you Yes I did replied Mrs Jarr but hut Bepler i sent ent his lila boy around with tho the most impertinent note Said ho had to pay his bills biUs to the wholesalers a athe at tho the end cad of the tho month and ho he must have our account at least settled in part as it t had been running a long time I waS wah so flO mad that I just made malle UI up my mr mind never to deal lIeal with him I again Well Wen the tho man has bas to have bave his money you know said Mr Jarr Jan But why insist on us paying Other people dont don't pa pay said Mrs Jarr anti and I think that's the way the they do with ith people who are arc prompt and honest They get after them if the they simply owe a a few dollars And I will say this too that when I do pa pay I pay ay cash Mrs er lets her account account ac ac- ac count run for a month and then only sends a check I would rather die than owe anybody a cell cent but I Just wish Ish we were moving Id I'd like hike to stick sUck those people 1 They generally find you OU aud and then I they are very ugly said Mr l JarrIt Jarr If It they were ugly ugh with me when I they did find me then I Just would not pay them 1 cent replied Mrs I Jarr emphatically And if they didn't find tinlI you you asked M Mr Ju Jarr I Well as long as the they didn't find me rae I 1 wouldn't pay PM them of or course coure Hald Mrs Jarr Tarr Anyway Ive I've paid them Ulem enough what they all say remarked remarked remarked re re- re- re I marked Mr l Jarr But I suppose se its it's I human nature when people say Xo sow Now 1 I that you have been so ansI nasty about this old bill I 1 wont won't pay you ou at all 11 for spite 1 Oh Ot of or course I might know kno you'd ou have something mean to say about i it it said Mrs Jarr But you ou are arc areaway I away all day and I am the one that has to meet the bill collectors You dont don't have to put up with the tho impudent I I lent dent things they sa say Did you ou pay Depler personally I I did but hut that's thal's what kept me mc I J remarked ed Mr tr Jarr I stopped in his store storo and his wife wasn't there nor norlie he lie wasn't there Nobody but hut that ha half wilted wittel clerk of his hiis And I had to walt wait till the clerk could get somebody somebody some some- body bolly to go look for Bepler It took toole them fifteen minutes to find him And yet every time I passed his place an anI and andI I hadn't the money In Ill my ray clothes clothes to pay his old bill he lie would bo he at the I st store re door eyeing nb me as if I 1 were I robbing robbin him and ho knew IL The Tue clerk would be DC on the sidewalk with tho the delivery delivery de lIc- II livery bo boy and they would gaze aze at each other as if they thoy were saying Theres a n guy gur who has stun stung the boss bOBS good aud and plenty And Anti all the little would be hanging out of or the window with a look in their eyes that seemed to say gay Oh popper could taJ take e us to the movies every week twice If It that Mr Jarr would wO pay his bill Yes Ive I've noticed that too said Mrs Jan Jarr When I go to pay In ray my bill nObody is around nobody around nobody Is in inthe inthe the tho store to seo see me pa pay it it and and one doesn't seem to get et any credit credit credit- Youve had the he credit now youre you're paying interposed Mr Jarr Well I want the credit for the paying as well wen as the credit to get Jet the things replied Mrs Jarr But as you say when one hasn't the money to seo see them all standing looking at you as if you Olt had cheated them and anti never Intended to pa pay And when you ou have to pass them thoy they look hook at each other a as if it they wish wished ell you no harm but tile thc thoy hoped you'd oud I fall and break your le leg Well YeH if we ever do ho move move moye- said I Mr Jarr I What hat good would that do 10 They They know where you OU work sighed Mrs Jarr Jan i I |