Show A BL I 1 WINA adf the new no w fable of the t h e through train tile tha two passengers and nothing doing in tho the way rf of transfers two high school heliotropes Helio nello tropes named lib and anglo angle wore very ory thick 1 they hey h had ad themselves photographed with their aleada and used to dab themselves with th tho a sarno banio piece of chamois whenever lib got a new patch for her silk crazy quilt alto aho would divide with anglo angle on a GO 60 50 basis and whenever anglo angie got ready to sloop on oil a picco of wedding cako cake she bho would pinch out a good sizable hunk for UK allt each girl kept a nightly at tho other girls and long actor they had retired tile tho inmates would hear smothered giggles eased witti with fragments of what lie ho bald aid a to liar her an and d what she bho said bald to him tho the period of their adolescence was a bout about 30 years yeara ago when romance was still alive and knighthood was wai in flower around every dancing academy west of pittsburgh tile tho two chums had made a pact they were to bo be friends forever and over ever and over ever and neither was wag to hold out anything from tho t tie other each carried tn in ft a locket a four loaf leaf clover presented by ono one to whom she had bared liar her soul after A ate r supplementing tho the graded schools with a full course of mrs southworth and learning to play tho the maidens prayer on tho the melodeon Melo doon naught remained renial tied for them in tho the way of pasi lonato diversion except to go 90 ahead and got married they waited three oars for tho the fairy 0 of their dreams to como come clattering down main street in ills hla coach all white and gold cold and then began to mistrust tho the schedule so they effected tho the usual compromise falling gracefully into tho the awkward embraces Im braces of two cornfeld lizards named otis and wllbur wilbur in the shake off it befell that anglo got wllbur wilbur and lib drew draw otis tho the two BrIdes somewhat envied aa wllbur wilbur was a good looker with raven pompadour and largo large snappy eyes while otis was supposed aup posed to possess tile tho acuity Ja culty of copping the tha masume Ma zunie however tile tho purpose of this thin fable la is to indicate that each gal cal found out iut ai M i A had themselves photographed with their heads together too late into that she aho had dutched her book and backed into the wrong padlock lock faxe separated tho the young couples and many a pull full moon deflated del i itself self before lib and angle had another chance to get away by themselves and till fill up on oolong and cautiously exhibit their wounds wllbur wilbur was a hustler who lacked terminal facilities ile he was full of st SL vitus activity and was always transferring a lot of papers from one pocket to another and getting ready ito to interest capital in some legather lan fan enterprise paying 20 yer liar cent per annum but somehow ho never arrived while negotiating for a rubber plantation in yucatan lie ho would hear about two million acres waiting to the irrigated in colorado but before ho he could turn on the water lie he would bo be lured away by the prospect 0 of developing ve some monto carlo alon upon the range 1 in the me meantime antimo ho he wore avore celluloid collars and owed for every round steak that he had carried home during the preceding five years OUs otis on the other hand played nothing but cinches ile he was out for the pastry it was not his fault if the widows and orphans who invested on his tips all wound up as department part ment store employed Emp loyes lie ho double crossed his partners and whipsawed his customers and bluffed the iho courts and bulled his way into tho the strongholds Strong holds of Pi finance nance while the V U 8 9 grand jury would be in session trying to get at him with the goods he be would be motoring in normandy and tossing Sho showers weri of silver to the peasantry do not mistrust tile the talo tale for every buccaneer from broad street N Y to tile st francis liar at tile tho golden cato was once a poor hoy day with store clothes in hla his hack back and arar grand ld lar lan ceny in ills heart when anglo angie N went t to visit lib lifter after tile lapso lapse of many years you can call gamble that they had somo some talk to unload anglo angie carried a wicker suitcase suit case costing coating and liar her general getup get up was that of tile tho honest creature who may bo be found in any hotel corridor at 2 A at massaging tho the mosaic floor with a hot cloth get me said Wll burs wife dropping wearily to a divan in tho the stylo style of 0 loule quatorze pipe tho the lid it its Is a model and tho the aigrette Is made of broom ih oom straw tako take a peck peak at the shine tallor tailor mado and tho the paper shoes ever since they wished that false alarm on to mo me I 1 havo have been giving a correct imitation of lizzle lizzie the honest working girl each evening ho he cornea comes llama to give mo me a sweet klea kiss and promises mo me a trip to europe and a set of gray cray squirrels and next morning when I 1 got get up to ro rd move tile oatmeal from the Elro leas cooker I 1 find on tho the back porch a largo roughneck in a weater who lins lina come coma to shut off the gas or take away tho the parlor furniture then I 1 think of you with your closets lindig ing full of huffy fluffy frocks and your fingers crowded with jewels and your man rushing in every few minutes to slap you in tile the race face with a hundred dollar bill you can take it from me dearie I 1 would jump the whole game were it not for tho the children I 1 have put in my whole life trying to realize on a promissory note that was a bloomer to begin with ile ho has bas kidded mo me along over ever since the tha worlds fair at chicago feeding me on canned stuff and showing me pictures of electric runabouts and coun try places on long island in the meantime I 1 am playing in great lucli if I 1 can got get a trolley car to star baoy for me at this point tho the wife alfo of otis arost and pulling tho rose colored sill wrapper more closely about her mado to order form interrupted with at imperious gesture dack back up angle she eho exclaimed you should be a happy woman you yet have your Ilus husbands bands love and you have your children both of which are an denied a woman of my assured poal tin alon in tho the two minute class of the terrible spenders talk about hard ships do you know what it Is to lead tho the grand march surrounded eur rounded by assegai throwers Harpoon ors and cannibal queens who aro are po pointing intino you out as tile the wife of the malefactor who is about to be tried in the fed eral courts did you over ever stagger around all evening with worth of tiffany merchandise fastened on to you ou expecting every minute to be lilt hit in the coiffure by some raffles famosi did you ever during a formal dinner hear the door boll bell tinkle and find in tho the hallway a reporter from a morning paper who wishes to ask your husband if lie he denies his guilt or can give any reason why sentence Sen lenco M 0 death should not be passed upon him aro are you wise to the fact that the wife of a successful business Du siness man now occupies a niche in the hall ol of fame right next to the sister of jesse james jamea you are in great luck no ono one takes a shot at a failure having arrived at this thin cordial understanding der each leaned against the other and had a good cry after which they chirped up and paid a lot of attention to a well preserved bachelor who dropped in to get warm and take a slight fall out of tho the sado doard board MORAL when wealth walks walka in nt at the door tho the press agent comes in through tho the window |