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Show ' oo 1 i Walt Mason i . AMBITIOUS WIVES I'vo seen some husbands wet With (ems who might hiw learned to .-in and dance, lmd but their wlyes, the dim pled dears, but given them ., decent chance. I'm thinking now of Ftirum Hick, who presses hard against tie-names) tie-names) nnd life's to him a gilded brick because hs wife has "socIhI ilms." She. gives a party every week, or riot of some other kind: itnd Hiram sees his roubles Icsk- she makes bis assets hsrd to find A tea to honor Mr.. Joney may be the proper thing to give but Hiram's shv a hundred bones and wonders why such females live His wife must have u, coat I v gown appropriate to each evnnt; and Hiram totters through the town, and smokes a torch that cost a cent lb- makes good mono) ever.-, year, and if his wife would mend her vvus be well might icnd his title clear to Easy Street and happy days. But pbc must trol with rich er folk, and mingle with the I'pper Ten. and so poor Hiram's always broke nd sighing lor lost iron rnen. But in his gn. f b.-'.s not aJone; a million husband? toll and spin, ond every" tlmo they earn a bone tbeJr wives go fortli to blow It In A million husbands drudge nnd slave nnd toll along on war feet; and If their wives would help them 6ftve. they all might dwell in Easy Street. (Copyright by George Matthew Adams ) |