Show 1 S the minister and the vamp J t by mary grhim bonner 0 r se ve vav 1 Q li 10 J western newel a union now the minister wis RIs young and enthusiastic and eager he ile loved his worl wort he be loved the parish he ile loved the tile people tl ey were a bit too talk active at times they did enjoo telling him just how he should preach and act and think and do but it was all so well mewing that it failed to annoy him sometimes when he might have been annoyed he became amused instead it w m as so much the better kiy w the minister was extremely attractive every woman roman in the parish knew that every man admired the minis mints ter too ills was a roost most engaging personality but things became a trifle awkward when it appeared as though the min ister could not talk to any one of the opposite sex for more than ten minutes without arousing observations and how weary he did get of being told I 1 e austn t take the last piece ot of cake in a dish it was ras so tiresome a bit of so called witticism he realized realised reali sed that it might be difficult for a minister to be permitted to choose a wife for himself he ile somehow had a new admiration tor for ministers who rho appeared to have done their own matrimonial choosing lie ile feared that one might even take almost anyone anone to dodge the constant comments and chatter on matrimony m wh h ch an unmarried man seemed ato 0 encounter and then the minister mi fell in level lovel oh ma mally lly and rapturously in love and with a girl from out of town whom people said qaid was not the tape toi for a ministers wife at all at all and the minister had said he hadn haan t looked tor for i I 1 type he be had picked out the one he had cared for he ile even heard people wl wt the avord vamp A vamp who had wo ha came into the chapel and told of his engagement entitled led him h someone said he ile in quire 1 the various definitions of the word vaino he ile almost tailed failed to be amused he became so angry and this was ivas the tile joyous christmas season wl wt en love and good N w ill III should have been in fit the hearts of his ills people A man told him a vamp varrill was ras a dan girois gero is delight k woman told him itha a vamp was ras a worn u without principle A 5 soung oung I 1 ley oy told him a vamp amp wai was a mist inderst od innocent lady with sense ei ough to appreciate that men of seventeen were jot i ot children an oculist told him that a vamp was a an addi at the I 1 possible uses of the eve eie must muscles eq kit U old ich hid a biml was a deu dett little girl and nd a moti er ald I 1 im fin a vamp was rah a da janerous nerous creature o from whom every moti er sl keep t son con as from a dei 11 v pis it A 3 ui k j irl 11 tol I 1 him blin she slip envied a vamp tarup and NN aishe I 1 sl at e could be called one and a fallati t id 11 him bira tl at a I 1 amp was one f aiom on wl I 1 in it I 1 Is I 1 est to keep away tl e son but whose society it was w As all rig riffi t tor for an an older ri 0 an all to en j aty 5 he ile the version an I 1 found I 1 amp deierl described bed a as deil deal ing with such things as feet short I 1 lose ose I 1 art arts ot of bo bolts its an I 1 shoes music ani an I 1 i arlou 3 ither ther things tl ey were ivere making the christmas bri itman deco decolati rati ti is for the cl I 1 ach u etien hen the i inister c I 1 up into tl ti e cl el afef and tol I 1 ty alm ent ill if f I 1 Is lagait tl TI e wt aud d ill g is to I 1 e ill clin chri tilina enc 1 IP 0 said slid I 1 N er I 1 e I 1 nv windily win andl dilt 1 z clourd aund pine ird bookel they mil in it tei A 1 c alons till then the fukuto gift ippe ired ar I 1 warl N r e el I 1 with then an ali I 1 th ill ri 11 then all I 1 egan to feel bet ter 1 I or 01 A v hile t tl e ti id tit I 1 ien i en goss gosi p ing an i quarrel quarreling lug pettily as they I 1 id A vi I 1 the future wife of tie ie minli tm ter br bugl t with her tilt spirit t he tile seass he want a typical til wife fr a ater they cn 4 in tit led but nit st s nv was as an n I 1 II M wife for it minister f for ut 0 1 I e I 1 vt v I 1 jod jud I 1 I 1 va the I 1 z 0 o I 1 will till cheti he tp rl 1 ter 1 flesh pi en I 1 tie cm ver atin 1 her ime e of the place an ari I 1 aran r them new liew tle i it jett r ltd I 1 ei hh hii I 1 amp rop 4 hl I 1 I 1 1 n tl i vf nc n is A mem tn in real lifer |