Show what your girl will lit chicago tribune A cynical doctor withal a m man an of wonderful resources and a quick wind lives on one of the avenues on the south side he ile was in his study a few nights ago when a young man came in and began questioning him about his the young mans propriety of marry ing the young man foolishly foolishly raved about his sweetee sweetheart art M and called her angelic and so on oil he was a afraid fraid she wai wu too fragile fo for r this world the old doctor grunt 4 ed fragile eh how fragile ever teat test her fragility bo he i inquired let me give you some figures I 1 about her and womankind in in gen cral eral how fragile thay they are i let tet us an suppose this modern piece of perfect perfection iou is in moderately good health she will live to be say I 1 60 years old women don dont I 1 t like f to die anymore any more than men do not as much for women never grow I 1 old you ou understand luten to me ahe she will eat one pound of beef mutton or some other flesh every day that is pounds how is that for fragile bhe w will ill eat as I 1 much bread brea dandas and as much vegetables per deim and there you have I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 in 60 years pounds of bread and meal ment if ebe she is not too angelic she will drink daily not less than two quarts of coffee tea wine or beer and by the time eho she is ready to have a monument she will have consumed hogsheads hog of liquids fragile now young man t these so figures do not include the forty or fifty lambs she will worry down with mint sauce it does not take into consideration the 2000 spring chickens the pounds of butter the eggs and the four hogsheads hog of sugar she a he will consume in 60 years it does not take into consideration her ice cream her oysters her clams and such all this means about forty five tons or as much as you could put in half of sibleys Sib Si leya warehouse fragile think of your affinity in connection w with i th these fi figures guies and then rave over her being fragile young man you are a fool boffl |