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Show THE MEMORY OF A BU8Y MAN. How Husband Forgot Dinner Engage ment and Gave a False Excuse. Dinner had beeh ready and wnltlng 20 minutes. The wife of the tardy guest was very much embarrassed Just to think that her husband wan so rude as to be Into nt a dinner engage ment nnd keep all the guests wait ing! After a while the belated one arrived, redfaccd and perspiring. "So uorry to keep you wnltlng." ho said. "Hut I was detained nt the office of-fice with an out-of-town customer. Just couldn't get away." The excuse sounded all right nnd was accepted by the hostess, but it was n myth. The truth was: Preoccupied ho had gono homo from tho offlco at the UBiial time and found the houso locked, much to his surprise. Wliero in the mischief wero his wife and children? ho wondered. Why didn't they tell him they were going nwny? Ho went nil around the house nnd tried the doors, hut they were locked Then ho found a pleco of iron in the backyard and broke open a window nnd crowded In. Ho crowded out through tho win dow for tho evening paper and crowd ed hack. He rend tho pnper, nnd still tho wife nnd children didn't return. At 6:03 o'clock he remembered the dinner engagement. While ho dressed and rode 20 blocks the guests wnlted Hut others have made the same blunder. |