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Show CURING HUBBY. "My wife has a new fad," announced the fat man with the red face as he cheerfully stirred the cooling mixture before him with a " long straw.- "She is going in for hypnotism now, and it has my sincere and emphatic indorsement. She has taken twelve lessons from a noted professor of the art. and is now a full-fledged hypnotist or thinks she is, which amounts to the same thing ?o far as she is concerned. I was her first subject, and her success suc-cess with me not only pleased her, but astonished her as well. At first I rebelled at being experimented experi-mented with, thinking it all tommyrot; but I am now prepared to indorse the art to its full extent. She got me in a chair and then, standing in front of me, went through a lot of monkey shines before my face with her hands. " 'Now,' she said, sternly, 'you cannot leave your chair.' "Just to see what her game was, I gave her the glassy eye and made no move. Her eyes gleamed with triumph, and then she said : " 'Listen to me. You must no longer drink intoxicating in-toxicating liquor. If vou do it will make you sick. You will find it is impossible to lift a glass of the vile stuff to your lips. You cannot even enter a place where it is sold.' "Then she brought me out of the trance by snapping her fingers and announced that her experiment ex-periment was a complete success. "Now the dear woman remains at home serenely confident that I am no longer able to indulge in the flowing bowl, and my plea of being detained late at the office goes without question. Let's have another." |