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Show Driven by Hunger to Desperation. Mrs. Mode had just returned home from the country, to discover her previously pre-viously well-stocked wardrobe empty. "Good gracious, Herbert,," she cried to her husband, "where are all my clothes? And what in the world is that big black patch out on the lawn?" "Nelly," he replied mournfully, "after I had starved for two whole days, you, wrote me that the key of the pantry was in the pocket of your bolero. Well, I don't know a bolero from a box-plaited box-plaited ruffle, and I was desperate, so I took all the things outnon the lawn and burned them. Then I found the key among the ashes." Success Magazine. |