Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-18 | Page 11 | The Kick under the Table

J THE KICK UNDER THE TABLE '-Alter a man has been married a while 'And his wife has grown used to his' i manner and style, When she knows from the twinkle that lights up his eye 'The thoughts he is thinking, the wherefore and why, And Just what he'll say, and just what i he II do, I And is sure that he'll make a bad break ere he's through, 1 She has one little trick that she'll work I when she's able, ;She takes a sly kick at him under the table. He may fancy tho slory he's telling is true, Or he's doing the thing which is proper prop-er to do, f He may fancy he's holding bis own with the rest. The life of the party and right at his beBt, When quickly he learns to his utter dismay. That he mustn't say what he's started to say. He is slopped at the place whero he hoped to begin, I By his wife, who has taken a kick at i his shin, !lf he picks the wrong fork . for the I salad, he knows." I That fact by the feel of his wife's slip- IS pered toes. If he's started a bit of untenable news all On the calf of his leg thero planted a III Oh, I wonder sometimes what would IIH 1 happen to me ml 1C the wife were not seated just whero she could be HH On guard every minute to watch every Ejfl And keep me in line all the time with aim her kick. QiM Come closer away Is getting to be a EfM popular phrase between peace treaty III "friends" in Washington. . 1H j A woman doesn't have to go to a fin- hH .ishiDg school to tell her husband a VS 'thing 01 two. , Rll