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Show f 1 , WIFE HAD HER SUSPICIONS Hubby's Compliment Evidently Made Her Think There Was "Something "Some-thing in the Wind." "C. J. M." writes as follows ta the New York Sun : "Sir: This most bonvtiful morning 1 arose early, went out on the veranda mid stood listening to the birds singing, sing-ing, looking nt the tulips and pansies. the young leaves on the trees, the now-cut-lawns, and enjoying the floods of sunshine making all so restful. I felt that it was good to live. "On the breakfast-table I found my favorite t'J.shes daintily served. My -wife sat opposite me, herself a picture ' of lovely womanhood, I could not re frain from expressing my great pleasure pleas-ure and happiness. "I said : 'This is a most delightful breakfast, and I have the best and sweetest wife in all the world to share it with me.' - "Now. naturally, I expected a sweet smile of appreciation. Did I get it? No! The 'booful lady' half closed hei eyelids, looked at me steadily and said : 'You be particularly careful t come home this evening on your regu lar train.' "Aren't women queer creatures?" In Exalted Company. One of the members of a committee of inspection on its tour of a certain penitentiary found himself in conversation conversa-tion with one of the convicts. The latter lat-ter was disposed to be confidential, and thus unburdened himself: "It is a terrible thing to be known by a numher instead of a name, and to feci that all my life I shall be an object of suspicion aiaong the police." y "But you will not be alone, my '' friend," said the visitor, consolingly. "The same tiling happens to peoplr who own automobiles." Mosquitoes Put Out Light. Great swarms of mosquitoes swept In from the marshes and extinguished for three nights the light in the light house at the Vermillion Bay entrance to the canal. The insects blocked tht air vent, despite the efforts of the ligh. keeper to fight them off. The mos quitoes have caused great discomfort in this section. Abbeville (La.) Dis patch New Orleans Item. His Mistake. i "Husband, what did you do with i those perforated piano rolls?" "I thought they were a lot of peek a-boo shirtwaists and I put 'em in : the wardrobe." The Proper Place. "Where did the police question the ; suspected waiter they arrested for ; thefts at the clubhouse?" "I guess it was in the grillroom." |