| Show AN OPEN FIRE in my prayers each night I 1 include a wish that wherever I 1 may live I 1 may always have an open fireplace and since it costs nothing to ask I 1 pray that I 1 may have an ample supply of fuel and a man to keep the firebox filled when you are alone lighting an open fire is like having a good friend draw up a chair with a blaze a dog a pipe and a book a man can get through any evening comfortably any girl who is neither positively ugly nor utterly witless can capture any man if she will put him in in a comfortable chair in front of a fire and let him smoke if she will talk amiably about how pleasant it is to sit quietly at home on a wet cold evening instead of rushing to a dance or a show he will probably propose at onel once or she can take it for granted that he be has proposed which is the same thing thousands of men have married thousands of women solely for the the purpose of enjoying restful evenings in front of open fires all the remaining days of their life after marriage unfortunately the mood is difficult to maintain As soon as the man gets thoroughly relaxed and everything is just as it should be his wife says to herself now is the time hes he feeling just right she walks over to his footrest foot rest puts her land hand on his knee and begins ive been wondering if w we ought not to take that trip next week dear you are looking tired and should get away and I 1 been out of this house for six months what do you say if it a trip its a fur cont coat anew a new car a new house a summer cottage or a new bathtub the reason most men become cautious and park their feet on steam radiators an open fi fire re i is s a trap exchange |
