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Show THE LAWS OF COMPENSATION. Mike Understood When His Wife Had Explained. A N'eu Yorker tells of a yOung Irish couple in his employ, not long come 'from the ' onld country." Shortly af-I af-I ter their arrival the young wife, ambi tious for learning, entered a nisht I school, since her duties permitted of BSE that. Wtt One eening, when she returned to greg the servants' hall from school, the Hg husband asked: "Ah' phwat are ye learnin' now, lKg! Molly?" mm: "Tonight," said Molly, thinking to msM have a bit of fun with Malachl, "to- HrS night the teacher read to ua about Kjffj the laws of compensation." Warn "Compensation? What's that" H "It's hard to explain, but it's some- thine; like this: If your sense of 'Em smell is poor, the sense of taste Is RSa all the sharper and tf you are blind, MBlStt you can hear all the better" Bnffi Malachi reflected. "Sure," said he. 'ff&t "I see It's loike this: For example, W if a man is born wld wan leg shorter Wiiii than the other, the other Is longer." 'Ek Harper's Magazine L |