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Show Took the Warning. "Charles," said a sharp-voiced woman wom-an to her husband tn a railway carriage, car-riage, "do you know that you and 1 once had a romance In a railway carriage?" car-riage?" ' "Never heard of It," replied Charles, in a subdued tone. "I thought you hadn't; but don'1 you remember it was that pair ol slippers I presented to you the Christmas Christ-mas before we were married that led to curt union? You remember how nicely they fitted, don't you? Well, Charles, one day when we were going to a picnic you had your feet up on a seat and when you weren't looking I took your measure. But for that pair of slippers I don't believe we'd ever been married." A young unmarried man. sitting by, immediately took down his feet from a teat. |