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Show RIGHT IDEA WENT WRONG. I An old actor who was not much I given to tho cheering glass, says I the Billboard, one evening went to I dine at the club with a friend met I several more, with tho result that I late in the 'evening he was "pretty I mellow." He left his friends and m started home and said to himself : I 'My boy, you're drunk I 'What are I you going to do about it? I know! I I'll go home and read who ever I heard about a drunken man read I ing?" Well, home he went in a cab I went to tho library and com I menced to read. Mrs. Actor later- I appeared on tho scene. "What on I earth aro you doing?" she ques I tioned. "Why er can't you see I what I'm doing, my dear; I'm read I ing." "Reading," said his wife, I scornfully, "what aro you reading?" I He looked at the book, but couldn't I see tho words, so he said: "That I book's been in the house for the last I 20 years, so if you don't know I'm I not going to tell you.'V To this his I wife replied wrathfully: "You old I fool, shut up that valise and como I to bed." I |