Show read meter through opera glasses to the long list of celebrities that have been started at through my opera glasses the gas meter has haa now been added said a city woman the meter in our flat is placed so high on the kitchen wall that a stepladder step ladder chair or table la Is necessary to boost the reader within a seeing ee ing distance yesterday when the inspector came the step ladder was broken and tb the e chairs and tables were otherwise en ile he took the inconvenience very good natu just lend me a pair of opera glasses he said and I 1 can see bee it all right the glasses were brought and the reader proceeded to stare through them presently he read off a row of figures are you sure that la Is right I 1 asked positive he said eald A pair of opera glasses Is a part of the equip ment of the gas gaa man to help belp reach meters in inaccessible places but I 1 forgot mine this morning |