Show J OF A JY a i i ct TI MELISSA DECIDES THAT MR CAPIAS CAPIAS CA CA- PIAS WONT WON'T DOWe DO We seem to be seeing a great deal of at Mr Capias lately Melissa observed observed observed ob ob- ob- ob served Mrs maternal maiden maid maid- en aunt Runt Jane beginning a new rowIn rowin row rowIn In the afghan sho she was ws knitting with the wrong color Mrs delicately picked up upa a 0 candied violet from the box of at bonbons bonbons bon bon- bons bans In her lap and crunching It between between between be be- tween her white teeth answered with some indistinctness of articulation that there was a good deal of Mr CapIas Capias Capias Ca Ca- pias to see He Is certainly a fine fino figure of at a a. aman aman man said Aunt Jane Two figures corrected Mrs Mer Mer- Twenty three Is the gentleman's gentleman's gentle genUe- mans man's number the tho way Ive I've got It down Cheer up dearie deane well we'll see less lessof lessof lessof of him after this evening Weve We've got tho th probate business about settled andall and andall andall all Ive I've got to do is to settle him Aunt Jane laid down her knittIng and adjusted her glasses for a steady inspection of ber er niece Do you yon mean to say you expect him to propose she asked I 1 wouldn't swoon with surprise If he did replied Mrs I dont don't think my poor fond fluttering heart will flutter as high as my tonsils ton ton- sue sils If it such a thing should happen Yes nun auntie tie he will propose and he Will get a a. Jar that will loosen every rising Sen agreed Mrs I dont don't doubt It it auntie Hes He's a particularly particularly par par- yeasty person You take a combination of oiled silk and gas and youve you've got something that will go up like the cost of living unless somebody somebody somebody some some- body sticks a pin In It and theres there's no repair material handy I wouldn't Wonder won won- fler iler ono anD bit If it Mr Capias lands in Ia a soft sort place on the bench but Im I'm no Maud Muller and I 1 do dont don't t think Ill I'll ha have va any regrets egrets I think you might do a great deal vorse aunt Jane Jano contended Bless your cunning little curls curls curls- you haven't got o a i t quite dearie deane There Now they're I ill Lii right Bless your cunning little a woman might always do worse That's the one consolation iho has There are aie more varieties of In men than some people 13 pickles and no one man has hashem hashem hashem hem all or even the tho worst of them f you take his bis wife's wIte's opinion She tan Ian always look around lookaround around her circle if f married acquaintances and thank ler ter lucky stars and supporters hose rs hat John hasn't acquired the I ar brand of vice that distinguishes ho lie brute brut next door or across the y Youve You've no idea what a comfort hat bat sweet worse have as as- was to me in m my married life lICe luntie lunUe So you object to him because b ha hasn't a tenor voice Aunt Janes Jane's too Inc weB mildly sarcastic I And because hes he's a lawyer said saM Mrs l M-er M nodding her bang completely com over her loft left eye I think any woman Is ia foolish to marry a lawyer lawyer law yer y-er when there aro are so many pleasanter pleasanter pleas anter ways of or making herself hersell miser miser- able Of or course cours Im I'm very dense but I J cant can't imagine why a member of an honored and Indispensable profession proCession should be considered ineligible matri matri- Aunt Jane delivered herself herself her her- self of this wIth a degree of acrimony Dearie Deane said Mrs because you haven't given the subject due consideration and little little- Melissa has A lawyer has to have an I leal ical mind That's all right ln n his hon ored profession but hos ho's vt pt to bring J Jit It home with his umbrella and apply appy It to the garbage can s' s to speak tc deduce things nonsense commented Aunt Jane So is most of the law law said Mrs Irs l Anyway a lawyer Is supposed supposed sup sup- posed to to- know how to argue and put the person he be argues with in th tM the wrong What kind of a happy lif life lite I would a woman lead with a husband that could get the best of every discussion dis die Isn't that a wife's privilege And nd saying mean things In an aggravating aggra aggra- rating way You know perfectly welt that all lawyers pride then themselves selves on that Its It's their business while Its It's ts t's merely an amusement with us And r r- r I I SUCH A WINNING I bicuspid In his mobile jaw l' l Im I'm quite looking forward to It ft May I 1 ask why my dear said Aunt Jane elaborately Because he cant can't note any exceptIon exception tion Lion to the courts court's ruling on the ground that the court erred when she employed th the word not In her decision deci dee sion Mrs replied He Hevont wont won't get any thirty days or thirty seconds to file an appeal He wont won't have the closing argument either or get the costs taxed to anybody but Mr Capias Caplas Ive I've one or two other I reasons I dont don't call what youve you've said any reason remarked ked Aunt Jane severely Have a marron glace dearie said Mrs selecting one with the candy tongs and forcibly inserting ItIn itin It Itin in her aunts aunt's protesting mouth To resume Mr l Capias rumbles When an a aman man n has a deep bass voice and rumbles with It and then puffs out his cheeks and swells his bis chest to show how bow much wind hes he's got left If tr he cared to use It I 1 always want to give him a jar Poor dear Henry never never never nev nev- er rolled out any sub cellar oratory at me in his most exasperating mo mo- ments They say hes he's a 3 rising man urged Aunt Jane then theres there's questioning cross Oh Ohi theres there's no use talking about It auntie You must see yourself how simply awful It would be There might be something in that certainly Aunt Jane conceded but butI I 1 dont don't think Its It's your real reason I If it isn't that It must be the way he has of or making himself agreeable said Mrs 1 Perhaps Its It's his winning smile and perhaps Its It's the cute things he says like Sweets to the sweet when he produces the can can- dy dYe No It wasn't this candy this Isn't so worse Sweets to the sweet and the smile went wIth it Hes He's got gota a cunning little collection of funny anecdotes too too culled culled from th the first edition of a patent medicine almanac When he says That reminds me atthe of at the story of at the Irishman I have to hold on tight to something to keep from screaming There was that about poor Henry he never tried to tell funny stories I If hes he's so distasteful to you I 1 Iwon wonder won won- wonder der youve you've encouraged him the way you have said Aunt JaneI Jane I didn't sa say he was distasteful dearie deane Mrs l replied And Andas as for encouraging him him I I. couldn't be rude Not unless It became necessary I never gave him any real reason to suppose that we could ever be e more to each other than very dear dear- friends and andI I shall always regard him with a a. feelIng feeling feel feel- Ing of tender sentiment as the first of my second series serles but there are aro so many pretty pebbles strewn about the I beach that dont don't wear black string neckties and theres there's ono one insuperable objection to Mr C if it it was ever so What that Inquired Aunt Jane He makes me so awfully weary said Mrs 1 1 Copyright 1912 by W IV G. 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