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Show DOWN THE SCALE. John Had Evidently Displeased His Charming Bride. A certain bride is very much k' love with her husband and very willing will-ing to admit it. She likes to sound his praises to her mother and to her girl: friends. She has a number of original j expressions. When her husband is good she says he i3 "chocolate cake three layers deep." When he is very good he is "chocolate cake four layers deep," and so on up the scale. Occasionally, Occa-sionally, however, things take a turn. The bride's mother dropped in the other day. The bride was a trifle peevish, peev-ish, but her mother pretended not to notice this. "And how is John today?" was her Inquiry. "Chocolate cake four layers deep?" "No." "Three layers deep?" . 1 "No." ' Tj"f-f "Two layers deep?" "No." This with a pout. "Then what is he?" "Dog biscuit!" National Monthly. |