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Show j j-j- r -. s j srw The Appleton Family I J I.Ir. Lrsaij'Jer Jotn App'e'on 2 Mr. LyianCt-r Jln Appltton 4 Kin Daysey Mayine Ap.vietoa 2 5!a;ter Ciiaoncey Dcrere Appleton 2 tnn i:.:;ny that : i::z;'Je the :.;.;: :-s. "I beat over :oe far in s':-; '.''.z the ca:'i"t." s!.e say; or "1 r.-m ! . 1:0 i,-o U'.sh in ' sthin a i-antry and soiaa- :!iing in me saa; ;ed, and I haen't j .pen well sinee." Soii;etlung is always !n:tjj.!t!? like this ac-urdin; to Mrs. j A Iie;,,n, leaving the imiiression tliat nr insldi' are ahv.tys snaj-ping like firecrackers. j I.ysandi r Juhn Ap ! i-n cure ho-lieve.l ho-lieve.l that if he l.oa.ht eiinii-a roek-i-!s, he Mcailiin't hae to -ive up his !.en company eaaie, la;t tiiou::Ii he HUivl Ihe house, he still ia.sn't enough. He abamloiu'd hat ambition and is now trying to 'et so many beds in the house that he will not have to sleep on the parlor I, ,;:;!-; when company conies'. This amhiiioii is ilie only one l.ysander .John Appleton litis left. Mrs. l.ysander John Appleton talks a 'jiroat deal to callers about her ailments. ail-ments. It is related that the preacher calied once to ask about her husband's soul, and till he could find out from Mrs. Appleton was the condition of her liver. It lias never dawned upon his mother moth-er anil s-ister that the re:, son Cluum-cey Cluum-cey I'evere Applelon always pulls out the chair that litis a weak le-, and breaks it down before company, is that ho isn't allowed in the parlor' often onoutih to become acquainted with its shorl-comings and infirmities. Though a greal deal of money lias been spent on Haysey Mayme's voice, she can't throw it farther than a block-in block-in calling t'hauncey Devere home in the evenings, while a girl who lives next door, and who knows nothing about scales except the kind found on it fish, can throw her voice six blocks. (Copyright by George Matthew Adams.) |