Show WINNING AN ARGUMENT by ALLIE BROCK my wife is the creates gr eates hand at an argument you ever sa e said the man in the smoking car of the aubur ban train she always beats me at anything iny thing of that sort the last time I 1 was shown up as a false alarm in applying logic to every day affairs was no longer ago than yesterday when I 1 got home from the city last lat my wife said to me there ft as a m man an here today to see about fixing the flom flower er beds and the garden cor for the winter he looked so shabby and sort of domele s that I 1 gave him your other light overcoat that ought to be a good start to ward getting him a home I 1 said in mirth provoking way it was a thought ful move on your part I 1 suppose you figured that some lonely widow along the road mould fall fail in love with him when she saw the graceful lines of that coat enfolding him and would rush out to haul him in don t try to be tunny funny said my wife what really interest me more than his immediate future I 1 said is the object of his call did he wait long enough to specify what was the matter with our flower beds that need ed fixing my wife favored me with the stare of disdain which she eon aders especially cutting and effective against my kind of sarcasm why I 1 suppose he hg wants to fix them up for the winter she said im I 1 m enot not an expert on ach matters but I 1 have an idea that some sort of atten tion must be paid to th in before zero weather comes I 1 tol I 1 the man to come back this evening and see you there being no adequate reply to this under the matrimonial code I 1 al lowed the subject to drop and awaited my visitor he came with the shad aws adorned with my overcoat I 1 was nas wonderlin won derin he said it if you wanted your flower beds and your gar den fixed up for the winter then he leaned restful lv against the porch pillar what s the idea I 1 asked won wont t they be 11 there next net spring if I 1 leave them alone all yes but you dont understand the tired citizen explained fohey ought to be bedded down with lizer spaded up and covered over the way they fix em in the parks and then what I 1 demanded the light of my household was listening from the darkness of the hall and I 1 wanted her to see the uselessness of 0 the appointment she had made madd for me then your flowers and vegetables will have a big start next spring the horticulturist explained because the ground will all be reaal tor for em I 1 do this every year tor for hobt of the peo pie in this town I 1 charge a dollar for my time and you pay or 1 the fertilizer and stuff see here you ou lm imitation tation gardner I 1 mark d after I 1 had glared at h in a moment 3 sou ou re the worst N arst booster tor for yourself that ever came down that road out there your to get a dollar out of me are so feeble and amateurish that I 1 d hav 3 a laugh all to myself it if I 1 wasn gasn t getting sort of tired of your kind of cattle you youve ve got a ot of nerve to say that you bed do don N n the vegetable gar dens of most of the people in this town every year so they 11 be ready to do business with a rush in the spring time I 1 told him why there isn t another suburb or this branch of the railroad that turna 1 out such a worth less lot of garden truck as this one now I 1 know what s the matter its it s all i our fault it if you d keep your hands off ane gardens and let things alone people might ave a chance to raise a few spring irions or ions at a cost of not more than 6 a dozen and we might even get an occasional that wasn gasn t a soggy sponge not con tent with getting ny tall fall avei overcoat coat by merely standing around and looking frostbitten you expect me to give you a dollar tor for taking exercise that would keep aou ou warm while yoi are spoiling my garden my ciller hinted his weight eight to the other foot and looked an comfortable tor for a few seconds but he was redy ready with his defense well he said a man mans s got to live there my wife exclaimed tri from the darkness behind me that s the po nt you always over look so this morning that depressed person was busy in our garden with spade and wheelbarrow when I 1 left home lovely woman may not be strong on the finer points of logic but she certainly has the gift of win ning in any argument chica chicago daily news |