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Show WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE Inquiry That Would at Least Have Shown That Husband Was Not Altogether Indifferent. Mrs. Enderly, wife of Judge Ender-ly, Ender-ly, of a small Missouri town, complained com-plained one day that she had accidentally acci-dentally swallowed a button, which she was holding in her mouth preparatory prepar-atory to attaching to some garment. As the lady was rather given to making great ado over trivial mishaps, and as the judge was much preoccupied, preoccu-pied, he did not pay much heed. Soon after, however, finding her in tears, he made kindly inquiry as to their cause. "It's your heartless in-indifference to anything that h-happefis to me," sobbed the aggrieved little woman. "I didn't suppose you'd w-worry much because 1 swallowed a button, but ! ' d-did think you might have taken enough interest in it to inquire w-what kind of b-button it was." Youth's Companion. Cirencester, the name of a town in England, is pronounced Sissiter. Los Angeles has a city mother Mrs. Aletha Gilbert. |