Beaver Press | 1909-09-10 | Page 4 | When the Umbrella Took Fire

when the umbrella took fire thomas simpson tho the detroit malleable iron manis man is a graveland grave and dignified person but once lie he made a joke he was waa sitting with a party of friends one of whom was smoking an enormous cigar the friend had difficulty in keeping the cigar going and by his repeated lightings sightings ligh tings had frazzled the end of it until it was about twice its ita original size but he kept bravely at it suddenly simpson began to laugh what are you laughing at toni tom asked another member of the party 1 I was wondering what jim would do when that umbrella lie he Is smoking begins to blaze he said saturday evening post