Show y HID 1 14 WILB WILBUR D NESBIT newt ow FATH last week our clock got out 0 fix an pa took it one night an said he d tinker up D its ticks so it would U uld work all right ma said he d better send it down to some re rep pairin alrin man pa ra said it if any 1 one in town can fix this clock I 1 can at fixin things pa has a but th re 9 tw two wh wheels els he be cant can t put back IV en our front door I 1 lock 0 c k goulda wouldn t pa work got his box 0 tools an took the lock out with a jerk erk lie sat sail I 1 that folk folks Is tools fools that spends biff big money for re pairs that any one can do J he lie sa swore ore an wa was sent upstairs before tl it e job was through an mr jones the locksmith he bold sold us a new lock an a key e an when our kitchen sink had leak leaks vo my pa said don t you send L for or plumbers T ey will work tw two weeks before the leak they 11 mend he ire got his monkey wrench an tried to twist the pipe around an then he had to run outside for fear that he d be drowned the plumber says the pipes won t burst it if you turn oft the water first once pa put in a window pane or started to until he ile broke the glass an cut a vein an let the putty spill 16 down on the carpet an upset A chair an broke its back an yelled tor for heaven heavens s sake to get the word to dr black bo SO now when tl ings Is broke my ma BBS sas children don t you tell your pa shoveling snow the time ot of the year Is approaching when the average man begins telling how he used to shovel paths through eight feet of 0 snow at four 0 clock on mornings when the thermometer reg so far below zero that the mercury rattled around in the bulb like a mustard seed that Is the sort of man who will go out the first heavy snow and show his family how to clean the walks he ile vi will III have a nice new dollar snow shovel sent up from the store and will begin preparations by slipping and falling doar the front steps dur ing his slide several bushels of snow will surreptitiously become inserted between bl his s shirt and his undershirt how in the name of time it gets there Is a mystery as deep as the cause of the aurora borealis or the production ot of radium but the fact remains tha it gets there the man will overlook it for the inocent however and be gin tossing great shovel fuls of snow to right and left and he will be work ing like a steam plow when the old man who lives and who has a bad temper and rheumatism will happen along and get forty pounds 0 of snow tn in the face after the ensuing argument the average man will re sume operations by and by his back will begin to ache his neck to be stiff and sore and his arms to feel feet as numb as though they had been para lyzen since he was A as ten j ears of age but he will stick to it tor for his wife a and nd children will be watching pa from the window and the baby will be pounding the window pane with ita its sticky fingers and goo going glee fully at last after years and years of 0 lifting and shoveling the walks will be cleaned and the man will straight en up painfully and start to the bach back door when his wife will open the front door and cry you left a little bit of snow behind the hors eblock dear dearl IT when a man says he knew a thing intuitively you may understand that for or once in his life he guessed right solemn decision I 1 hold it truth with him who writes the tariff rules both days and nights that toys toy are toys and dolls aie ate dolls and overalls are overalls A substitute how Is this asks the brutal hue imis band looking over his wife s accounts here s a bill tor for 40 for two switches I 1 thought I 1 heard you and mrs mcgoogin Ma googin talking about how glad you were that the new fashions had done away with rats and pompa dours so they have explains the fond wife but don t you see the switches take the place of the rate and pompa dours an experts opinion well said the happy bride to the lady who had been divorced several times I 1 can truly say that I 1 have a model husband no doubt agrees the divorcee but it seems to me he looks like a 1908 model yaz 1414 hn 5 |