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Show THE MEMORY OF A BUSY MAN. How Husband Forgot Dinner Engagement Engage-ment and Gave a False Excuse. Dinner had been ready and waiting 20 minutes. The wife of the lardy guest was very much embarrassed. Just to think that her husband was so rude as to be late at a dinner engagement engage-ment and keep all the guests wailing! wail-ing! After a while the belated one arrived, redfaced and perspiring. "So sorry to keep you waiting," he said. "But I was detained at the office of-fice with an out-of-town customer. Just couldn't get away." The excuse sounded all right and was accepted by the liosless. but it was a myth. The iruih was: Preoccupied he had gone home from the ofii'ee at the usual time and found the house locked, much to his surpris". Where in the mischief were his wife and children? he wondered. Why didn't they tell hint they were going away? He went all around i lie house and tried the doors, but they were locked. Then he found a piece of iron in the backyard and broke open a window and crowded in. He crowded out Hi rough the window win-dow for the evening paper and crowd-ed crowd-ed back. He read the paper, and still the wife and chilt'ren didn't return.. At 6:03 o'clock ne remembered the dinner engagement. While lie dressed and rode 20 blocks the guests waited Hut others have made the same blunder. |