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Show AFRAID THE WOMAN WOULD LITERALLY DRIVE HIM TO DRINK P. P. Dunne, who writes tho "Interpreter's "In-terpreter's Houso" In tho Decombor Amorlcan Magazine relates tho following fol-lowing story: "A story has been often told of a great lady In England who was colobrated on all questions. Strang" to say, her opinions were exactly opposite op-posite to thoso usually maintained by her casto. She shared ono of th old-eat old-eat titles In tho kingdom, nnd was r lated Vy birth or marrlago tp tho proudest moinbora of tho aristocracy but aho waa a teetotaler, an atheist, and a radical. Holng a person of ex-speech, ex-speech, her radicalism outdid anything any-thing preached by tho Sunday orators ora-tors in Ilydo Park. "Her atheism was moro fervid than tho piety of a sister of mercy. And even tho lata Mrs. Carrio Nation must have turned away her head In pity if aho had beou present whon this lady took possession of tho ancestral an-cestral palace on her husband's accession ac-cession to the title. For ho descended descend-ed to the cellars whero were stored the treasures accumulatd by generations genera-tions of connoisseurs, broke every bottle and broached every cask and poured a ood of golden cxhlllrants of many famous vintages Into tho 3cwers. Once nn outspoken relatlvo went to visit her. After n fow days the visitor went nway Baying: "My dear, I can't stay any longer. If I did I would becomo a Tory, a drunk-ard, drunk-ard, and a Christian " |
