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Show WANTED TO BE ON SAFE SIDE Woman. Twice Deserted, Didn't Mean to Take Any Chances on Her Third Hubby. The officers of the thumb print bureau bu-reau were just wishing for something interesting to turn up when a telephone tele-phone message offered timely diversion. diver-sion. A woman was speaking. "Do you make prints of anybody's thumbs except criminals?'' she asked. The bureau did. "Well," said the woman, "if I will come down there right away with a man will you make a print of his thumbs?" The bureau would. The man and the woman came. "We want his thumb prints for Identification," said the woman. "We are going to be married to-morrow. He is my third husband. The other two ran away and I had the hardest kind of a time to find them because there was no sure way of identifying them. They say thumb prints can never change and that a man can be tracked by them to the ends of the earth. I hope I shall never have to use them, but it is just as well to be on the safe side. Will you mako them?" |