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Show HIS SILENCEACOMPL!MENT Too Many Men Are Apt to Make th. Mistake That Is Recorded of This Husband. The coffee was weak, the bread underdone, un-derdone, and the fowl tough, or at . least he said so. ' His wife's long patience pa-tience gave way. ' "John Henry," said she, "I ve tried faithfully to cook to suit you, for twelve long years. No one in the town has better-cooked food, yet you are always finding fault. Why can't you praise me once in a while, 1 d like to know?" He looked up In astonishment. "Well, if you ain't the most unreasonable unrea-sonable woman I ever saw, "he ejaculated. ejacu-lated. "Why, many and many is the time I've sat down to a meal and nev- . er said a word about it. Anybody would know there wasn't any fault to be found, or I'd 'a' found it, and yet you want a better compliment than that! That's just like a woman they can't tell a compliment when they get one!" |
