West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-07-16
MR. AND MRS. sowsEs.
The Old Man Gets Into a Tantrum
on His wifs's carelessnsss.

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take care Of itself?''
"What do yoa mean ?" she asked.
81 mean that / have been looking
for a shoc-string for the last houi
and a-half and that nothing of the
sort is to be foundp'
"No; don't believe there is one
in the house."
81 presume net, | presume the
two hundred pairs l bought in De-
troit the day before we left have all
been chewed up by the cat or sold
to the ragman. III there's n worse
run house in America I'd Ike TO
see it"
"Why, Mr.. Bowser, you only
brought home three shoe-srings,
and you used two Of those to tic up
your papers -
"Well, where's the other?'
Il can't tell, We may have lost
it in moving and unpacking.r
Don't doubt it in the least.
Whi.e a shoe-string is not rs big MS
a piano or as valuable as clock.
the loss of it shows want of system,
reckless extravaganza truly dis.
couraging Have You got piece
of clothes line in the house ?"
IL don't think so, she STAN
mered.
Probably not Probably gone
to join the shoe.string | must
have something to tie up my shoe
with, however, and | will uso
piece of stovepipe WIRE"
After breakfast, when ready 70
go out, he said
"Mrs. Bowser, hope you will
take this lesson to heart. Careless
ness in a wife is very rcprchensi.
bic trait"
You are just as careless as
am" she protested
"No, ma'am! No, ma'aml i
never mislay anything, forget any
thing or lose anything. Very few
husbands do. VIII go around the
world with pin in my vest and
bring the same one back with me.
II. you go out on the street to-day
you had bettcr havo policeman go
with YOU. If not, you II lose your
purse or he robbed of your cloak. "
When Alr. Bowser came up to
luncheon he entered the house with
IA smile on his face and the door
mat in his hand, and said
81 found boy walking off with
this mat Has any one taken the
range ont Of the basement? lisa
wonder to me they haven't come III
after the carpets ~
"That's the mat the girl put out
in the barrel to be carted away"
she explained.
"Oh =! 1t isl More reckless ex-
tIavagance, see Mrs. Bowscr, /
want to sit down with you some day
and have long talk. ] think YOU
mean well, but you are deficient in
judgment, and your knowledge Of
the world IS yery. very limited.
"Do you know everything" she
sarcastically queriod.
"Mrs. Bowsor," he replied, as he
folded his hands undor his coat
tails and assumed his favoritc att
tude, there are probably one or
two things ! don't know! don't
claim to know it all, and ] don't
say you know nothing whatever.
The husband who does not, how
ever, know forty times as much as
his wife, would be considered
stick Of a man. Did you 90 out
this morning 2"
u did"
"Was your bonnet taken OF your
head 2"
"No, sir ~
"Lncky-vory lucky You are
to be congratulated. / don'P'-
"Mr Bowser, where's your
watch ?" she interrupted.
"My watch, Mrs. Bowsor-my
watch is-great SCOTS -
lie dropped his hand TO find the
chain, but it was not there. lie
felt for the watch, but it was gone.
"Did you leave it at the jewell
ler's?" she asked rs he STOOD with
open mouth and stared nc her.
Jewellers MOI It's gone :
I've lost it I've been robbed ~
he shouted as no danced around.
fFt cop't ho Fool - ....