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Show He Worked It The girl he was going to see was unquestionably un-questionably pretty, but lie knew that her mother did not like him. So, one evening after the engagement, in the gloom of the gathering shades, he saw the old lady in the parlor. It was a bold stroke, but unexpectedly to her he kissed her. After her first pretended flutter of excitement of course he apologized ap-ologized and said she looked so exactly like her pretty daughter in face or figure fig-ure that his mistake was natural In the goodness of her heart she not only pardoned him but is now his next best friend in that house. Thisshows that mothers-in-law, if properly approached, approach-ed, are only human alter all. From the Philadelphia Times. |