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Show COUNT THE STARS. Don't Buy a FU Hkut Bu Not the Proper Number. Persons who are. disposed to purchase expensive American flags should count the stars, says the Upholsterer. The patriotic wife of a well-known newspaper news-paper man greeted her husband aft the dinner table the othey day with, the gleeful assurance that she- fcald secured a "splendid bargain;" She had bought a handsome silk flag, worth perhaps five or six dollars originally, for two dollars. "There must be something the mat- ter with that Hag," said her husband. ! "Oh, do," quickly responded his wife. "I examined it very carefully. It is perfect," "Did you count the stars?" asked her husband. "No, I did not." answered the wife, somewhat dubiously. The stars on the flag were counted, and it wis found that they numbered thirty-eight; it lacked just six stars of being an American flag. |