Show HENRT HOWLAND amm mothers gettan thin and BO shea quit ap pearln aad aa d ehe bansa all lay to let ua know that she Is fedun glad Tat ber work la hard to do H makes an early start and comes home when the day Is through worn out and ead at heart Ms do s are old and out of stylo ha wears his last years hat tor mothers had to abend a pile to keep from byln at he around lot im so hard on pants and shoes and every day moat all th time he seems to have the blues before he gets one month s bills paid the next month s bills come in but mother says she s not dismayed she s glad and gettan thin she does not care about the coat when theres a foal to seek for nearly tour weeks now ashes lost almost a pound a week the poets mission I 1 can t see the poets wife coin pla ined why you dont give up writ ing poetry and go in tor something that might be more profitable my dear you dont understand the boeta mission I 1 suppose I 1 dont I 1 wish teu me what it Is cant you see how great a boon I 1 am conferring upon posterity T A hundred years from now orators will be quoting my lines without mention ing me and it will be supposed that they themselves are the authors ot them just as orators of the present day embellish their speeches with quotations from poets who have long been dead without taking the trouble to mention the fact that they wera borrowing but how will that help couf it wont help me at all but do yon want oratory to become a lost AN inconsiderate HUSBAND oh dear ex cuse me bho said after at tempting tor the third time to hide a yawn 1 I had hardly any sleep last night I 1 hope the baby baan t her friend replied no my husband sat up until nearly one 0 clock reading a novel and it was almost two before I 1 could be sure he was sound enough asleep to make it safe for me to search bis pockets some men have absolutely no consideration tor their wives painful 1 I was the victim of a painful surprise last night how was abatt at dinner I 1 sat next to a boston and supposing she would be rigid I 1 asked her to cool my soup a tittle by blowing on it what happened T 1 I was roasted to a cinder advice look before you leap coony man bat keep this fact in mind the ones who never leap at all are those who are obscure and small and left to lay behind crois no ere it Is reached but young man dont forget that there are bridges to be crossed the ones on whom this fact to lost are likely to set wet cautious well we have been engaged for a week yes it was just a week ago tonight that you asked me to be yours have you told any body 7 not a soul then im afraid have to elva you up I 1 dont want to marry a 0 freak A future the matter with the 4 30 aeroplane its 20 minutes late the chief aviator has just informed me by wireless replied the station agent that been held up by lone aerial highwayman |