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Show SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. Fate of Unhappy Man Who Aroused Ire of Young Mother. The baby in arms was screaming lustily and the man in the gray suit could not hide his irritability. "What on earth, madam." he spluttered, splut-tered, "do you mean by bringing such a howling brat into a public vehicle?" "It isn't a brat," retorted the mother, moth-er, with natural indignation. "And, if I'm any jude, it doesn't howl half as much as you did at its age, going by the looks of you." The man in gray wriggled uneasily under the general scrutiny. "Baby, see the ugly man?" pursued the infuriated female, pointing at him "See the monkey-ponkey. gorilla man. what might take a first prize at a beauty show for the horriblest face? Baby, hush, or the ugly monkey man will" But the sentence remained unfinished, unfin-ished, for the man in the gray suit had bolted. |