| Show I rt r The Day of f Debts l 1 i HE HI II New ew Year season Benson brings other ji a things besides gladness and good I resolutions resolution Tho rho bills blUs come In i I I hUnches bunches and everybody that Is III h anybody wants wenta to wipe the tho uInta clean of ot them It Il Is funny tonny too how tho Incidental bills bIlI of ot the household that have bOo been forgotten rendered because they havo hao never noor been pour In at nt this particular time Tho The doctor who has not sent n a state statement his ment meat Adam waD wao a 11 boy presents The Tho dentist who had bad been entirely for forgotten forgotten gotten otten Binco tho the last time timo his services II I were wore required sends Reoda In one that makes father say ny things that would not sound grammatical to Willies teacher The baker who likes like to get hU money In bunches Instead or by the tho day when he be knows his customers are aro nil all right comes along aIon and would request to toI I have be his particular amount Immediately for tor flour dour Is high And then there Ls 11 L the rent which must never nee bo be neglected and the gas gall bill anti and wages and ond the theother 4 other thousand nd and ono one Items of ot regular i expenditure for tor which the tho head bend of oC every cery household makes mak special provision Father Get Gets the tho DUhOn BUI DUh L On the tho dreaded morning after otter tho the New Nev Years holiday father comes down stairs with scowling expectation Years of oC ex cx experIence have bao taught him what to look forward to In the tho way of o facts and ond fig Og figures OgI ores ures for tor office consumption nod and settle Rettie settlement I ment meaL Mother knows that he knows and ond ondI busies herself herselt with her household duties She Sho sees lice that his colIco Is Just right I I Sho She looks after otter his toast nod and browns bronis bro It just lust tho the way oy she sho knows he likes to have havo haveit It Tho meal Is very ery satisfactory and ond if be he cannot connot complain When TIlen ho he Is 19 ready to go 10 mother kisses him an on affectionate goodby and Just jost as os she sho Is la IsI I about to close cl o tho the door on omm him hands bands him the fatal total package of ot envelopes lIe He sticks I It In his pocket and hurries to the tho car cari i and ond wonders to tho the forgetfulness of ot his I morning newspaper If It the tho amount Is IsI I largo large and If ho he can con meet iL ILI I r The bank account has bos had bad some somo sad Iod In Inroads roads roods made In It U during tho tha holiday sea sen season seat 1 tho the thing that t I son lion n Closing his bis eyes to bo ho knew kne was coming the tho dear man had bad hadI 1 tHen boon lavish to a 0 fault Mother obtained I that expensive c set of ot sealskins Sure Suro eho hO did and sho eho earn them thorn dud ond ondI I I she sho have boo received thorn them Just tho thoI I same Borne If It they cost twice tho the amount Nothing too good for his wife certainly not And then there were the folder lols lois for tor tho the girls such luch things being col cot described as os Jewelry nut Hut Jewel Jewelry ry Is expensive the difference though when a 11 father wants to maUo malo his girls happy And little Willie the mis Imp got everything he be wanted Certainly Why he be his bl father know him to be the brightest boy bor boyr r that over ever played hookey And then the tha subscriptions for tor dinners for tor the poor nod and the presents for tor the numerous relatives s nod and friends A man be bo brute bruto enough to allow ow his wife anti and daughters to look cheap at nt Christmas h lInt But tho the season Is over oer and nod hard facts 1 ir face aee tho time poor man mno as na the tho street cir car Jolts f him along his way to the office Tho The pack package age of o bills Is not opened right away M r when the sacred s cred precincts ore aro reached 0 No io Indeed Iud d Business Is 18 business and the tho th mail mall cornea comes first Are Arc s Bills Dills bills bills disaster seems to face tace p the tho man no He leans his arms on his desk and ond holding his head bend In his hand hond tries to think lie admits that be he has been tHen as os asA derelict In his hi duty to his personal credi creditors r A tors aa os the folks at home have been Do lie lieI I begins to bo be reasonable and goes over oer I the accounts his wife presented that morning t a long Ion time since I 1 i 9 1 paid him anything Baker well Ill write him Wm n a check right away for people need bread Dr Jenkins bill In n a year If It ho all nil his bills an nR he sends mine mineI I wonder how ho the tho old tool fool the hal bal balance ance oneo of ot tho time year rear But nut ho la is a good doe doc doctor tor and hero goes for tor his hm check Guess be he needs money very ery badly JAN vIki BILLS BILLS EVERYWHERE So c every ery ono of ot the home bills Is 11 com commented commented on and paid paM while some of ot tho the personal bills are filed l for future refer reter reference ence goes goe homo home feeling good and cats his dinner with much relish Mother wonders when he Is going to break brenk out Ho lIo dont however and Is considerate very err considerate But nut everybody under understands understands stands on the morning morn In after when ho blusters downstairs and tells ma mn that she must tile mc her receipts away as soon as ns they the conic come In 10 And Sadie always an on Imaginative child now no grown Into young womanhood throws her arms around his neck and tells him that ho Is the th dearest den rest sweetest father In all nil the world and once moro more he starts office word ward wa rd |
