| Show RUNG UP HUSBANDS WAGES conductors wife males les tissue paper lamp jamr shade with bell punch Macl Blo ie is a conduct or on oil an owl rain on oil tie L consequently he does ills his 1 leopla ng in the daytime now ay as everyone knows who has oci occasion casion to use the elevated after 12 t the e lares fares after bassing passing certain points on oil the ae line are collected collect ed by tile the conductors who for the pur apse of registration carry the little loll bell pi niches once so familiar on the aee lines lilies ono one afternoon last week lie lic was roused irom from I rom his diurnal slumbers by 1 his I 1 vs iff industrious little wife who brought out for his admiration a lamp shade abade mado of colored tissue paper she had made it with willi her own pretty hands and its scalloped border was perforated with innumerable little holes through which the light of the parlor pailor lamp would fall on oil the table tell me if you think it pretty demanded mrs mackenzie holding tile the shade shadd out for lier her husband to inspect it il it looks lovely began mackenzie but as lie he scrutinized it more closely lie ho turned palo pale and said hoarsely you made holes with vAth in my Y boll punch yes dear said his dear little wife blithe blithely fy while you were werd asleep it was so conven convenient lent to punch holes with but what wham makes you speak that way demanded the little woman greatly n alarmed at the sudden change which had come over the unfortunate mackenzie oh nothing he replied only 3 youve rung up enough fares on that lamp shade to use up six months salary every one of those holes will cosime cost ane five cents all and the unhappy mackenzie in inthe the agony of his spirit groaned aloud chicago tribune |
