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Show I ufie. PUHSLE. L05ES HI3BUTTOrt5 C' VV' BY DvMGHT fJROOGH5 ' G & III breakfast the other morn Ll ing found a letter al hi? w plate left by ihe postman on j the early delivery. Hr very carefully opened the epistle and glanced at Its Contents. Then when Mrs. Rumble i ame into the room be said "My dear, I have been honored j anm. Herp is a letter from the Boon-ervllle Boon-ervllle Business Men's Association re- ; questing me to attend the annual meeting of that organization and to make an address on the 'Inception and Development of the Graded Principle of Accounting in its Prac- i i tlcal Application to Inherent Trades.' " "And will vou accept the invlta-' tion?" asked Mrs. Rumble, who was Immensely pleased at the high esteem In which her husband was evidently j held. "Most certainly," replied Mr. Rum j ble. "The subject is a favorlto one J with me, and I shall take this oppor tunity in visiting Booncrville to recuperate recup-erate for a few days a sort of early vacation, as it were; resting myself 1 from the cares and responsibilities j of business while I enjoy the hos- 1 ! pitality of our sister city in the moun-, moun-, tains." "That will be perfectly lovely," said j Mrs. Rumble. "And it suggests to me that when you return I shall like to have a little vacation of a couple of weeks. I wish to run out to Smiths burg to spend some time with sister Ruth " Mr. Rumble looked up at his wife repro ingly "Do you mean to say,"' he asked; "that you propose to leave me hre alonr for two Weeks?" i "But you won't mind, will you?" asked his wife 'I won't mind?" repeated Mr. Rum-ble. Rum-ble. "Do you remember the last time , you left me for two weeks? It was In 1914. I believe Do you remember that when ynu returned I was a mental wreck? And all because I had no one ' . I Had Collected A Pile Of Buttons to sew the buttons on my clothes as they came off. "If you do not remember, I do From th moment you started my clothes began to shed buttons I never put on a garment that I didn't lose a button. I never took off a garment that I didn't lose a button While I went about my daily duties buttons wrested themselves from my ' clothing. "At night when I retired I had to 1 shako a fistrul of buttons from my hoes, where they had gathered dur-Ing dur-Ing the day, They were buttons of all 1 lies and descriptions, and they rame from every article of attire that Is " "On some davs thev gathered in such great number in my shoes that ; it was next to Impossible for me to walk, and once or twice when they i rose up on edge under the soles oT ' ' my feet they actually put mc out of business. "When you returned from your va cation I had collected a pile of but-I but-I tons in a corner of the room that was as large as a hornet's nest, and I was holding my clothes together with 1 something like three gross of safety pins. "And yet you suggest that you are going to loae me for another vaea-jtion! vaea-jtion! I cannot understand how you j ' can be so utterly devoid of feeling for me. How can you be so heartless? j j Why can't you content yourself at , i home? Or. If you Insist upon going ; you will have to sew my clothes on j me and 111 refuse to change thena until ?ou return. I want no more such r-xprrimces with button " |