Show ALWAYS SWEETENED HIS recently a gallant old colonel who is subject to fits of absentmindedness absent mindedness and very sensitive about it was din at my house with a number of other guests bouillon was nerved and the colonel who was in the midst of a good atory thoughtlessly himself to two lumps of sugar and placing them in his soup continued his story my wife who enjoys a good joke on the colonel and who seldom spares him because there is never a flag of true between them laugh remarked voice colonel that is not tea it is bouillon the colonel gave an almost imperceptible cep tible start and arose to the occa aion with the reply yes I 1 understand I 1 always sweeten my bouillon and my unforgiving better half insisted on his having helping of soup and sweetened that for him herself 1 I think said she to the colonel smiling sweetly that about averages the scores and ho colonel winked slyly at me and said um yes |