Show Cr Crossed Wires Vires Blamed for lor Sui Suicide Attempt U It Isn't so long bug ago measured In months since I I was wakened out of my sleep one one night A friend d was concerned concerned con COIl about another friend The Time Jutten latter lat Jut ter ten had hind been beell In Increasingly morbid and despondent said the man on th the tue phone and he lie fear feared d. d that something might ml hr happen l that very Cry ni night night night- ht- ht l live le e telephoned 1 Sam and he lie does not lOt answer U So we called calle upon our moody friend There was no response to our knocks Three o'clock In the morning Break In II the time door I IThe S The Time ho house se was vas one of ot time the sort builders build build- ers ens have hare been putting up of late years Full of handsome details but made largely of oC brown paper paler nn and ami J plaster We Ye did not hot need an nn ax or oven even a jimmy to get through that door dool No wonder woner the time owner was despondent when he lie awakened to lo the thought that he had bought that sort of ot house Ho lIa must have ha concluded e he was not l In his right mind In the lie bedroom wo YO found our friend with an empty bottle by his side Hell live now said the time doctor at daybreak Why h didn't you ou two fools leave ma me nf alone ne asked our ungrateful friend Ill do It next time time time- So we ro rode e herd on him to lo use ft It We gave him no chance chanca to do It again We Ve kept him alive and Interested and sometimes an anand angry and Incidentally changed his diet and nd coaxed his liver Into resuming operations operations operations opera opera- and petted lila his nerves until they calmed down Hes He's the livest man In town today Healthy happy hearty and Is considering matrimony and a camping trIp md cannot annot quite decide which he lie wants first or most His trouble was only a 11 temporary one said the doctor A HA pair of crossed wires The Time sort of thing that might happen to an anyone o e. e Merely ne needed needed need need- ed an nn adjustment If It my wires ever eer cross Ill I'll know what to do J J P. P In Kansas City Star |