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Show AND THEN HE WASN'T PLEASED. Wlfey's Economy That Drew No PraUe from Husband. There was a pensive look in Mrs. Comoton's charming eyes, but she smiled aci'oBH the table at her husband when he asked her It sho felt too tired to go with him to a concert. "I suppose sup-pose you havo been busy packing all day," ho said, thoughtfully. "Oh, yes, I've been busy," she said, with a Httlo sigh, "but I feel satisfied, for everything Is packed now, except the last things, that can't go in the trunks till to-morrow, and bestdos that 1 havo done something I'm sure will please you, Henry. It will show you that I'm really learning to be thrifty aud economical like you." "I should like to hear what you've done," snld Mr. Compton, with as serious seri-ous un air as his wife's. "I know that tho battery In my Httlo electric lantorn would not begin to last till our vacation was ovor," said Mrs. Compton, "and yet It didn't really need to bo recharged yet. So rather than have that spark wasted, I went into tho library ut dusk, with all the curtains cur-tains drawn and the shades down, and just sat there In tho dark or It would have been dark except for tho lantern, I mean and pressed ono linger after another on tho lantern button, changing Ilngors us thoy got numb, till at lust the spark gave out. So now I can have It recharged to-morrow with n clear conscience," Youth's Coinpan-' Coinpan-' lou. i , 'o.t.jiMagajaaiBaj |