Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-08
WA-KEENEY. KANSAS, SATURDAY, j JUNE 8, 1896.

a new and, to him, most Objectionable
species. The past belongs to the past;
a man cannot live his life again.
"Poor old fellow, don't care to say
disagreeable things about him, but,
really, he had become most selfish
beggar,'' said De Vaux, leaning against
the mantel-piece.
Marriage spoils man utterly"
said his friend as he knocked the ashes
from his pipe on to the carpet. ''You
ought to get married again, he's no
good for anything else"
''He used to be such jolly, easy
ing fellow, now he growls at every
thing. The way he bullies our un-
fortunate laundres is shocking. When
he wakes up, he'll make you sweep
those ashes from the foor.'
''The side the man puts on, his as
sumption of virtue, and the way he
sneers at US really annoys me- He is
a skeleton at every feast, looks as
shocked as a curate if man tells a
racy tale, and actually called old
Soaker a cad because he could not
walk downstairs. 1 remember bring
ing him home in a cab two or three
years ago, and he yelled comic songs
all the way"
''It's awful" said De Vaux, with
laugh; s'last Sunday he came in while
was having afternoon tea with some
ladies, and simply turned upon his
heel, and slammed the door as he went
OUT
'We1l, I'm afraid you can't poison
him and put him out of his misery"
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bore him, the halls are disgusting. He
won't dance, does not drink enough to
enliven a healthy child, smokes in a
corner and growls. At the club no one
can understand him. He has tried the
river, CALF, the Solent, the card room,
and Paris, all in vain. / don't know
what to do with him. You remember
our last little supper party here.
Well, he got it up, and was perfectly
disgusted with everything and every
body, yet all the boys were old
friends
Eyes, I'm afraid he is incurable-"
"Yes, am" cried Selfton, springing
from the sofa upon which he had been
sleeping. I'm a nuisance to myself
and all of you. can't forget the two
happy years OF my life, and can never
live them again. I'll go into some cor
ner and wait patiently for the future,
since l cannot go back to the past"
isn't he lazy dadda, snoring like
big bow-wow when baby wants to see
him?"
''Why, Kitty" he said, dreamily,
awaling with start, sis it really you?"
Really me, silly boy. Whom else
did you expect, sir?'' she asked, waving
the baby before him.
Come tome, sonnie, he cried, laugh
ing gayly. ''See how eager the little
chappie is, Kate"
Then, as Philly nestled on his shoul-
der, clutching vainly at his mustache,
he drew her down onto his knee, and
said, softly: 'By Jove, darling, how
have missed you"
''Poor boy, it is too bad of me to
run home to my mother so often,
isn't it? But I've such news for you.
Father is going to launch out awfully.
He is actually going to buy a yacht"
"a yacht?"
Eyes; the boys are becoming so
horsey. You know how he detests that
sort of thing. So this is to cure them.
You are to be captain, and he is COM
ing over after dinner to consult you.
Isn't it charming?"
Rather; we won't go to Herne bay
for our vacation, eh, little girl?''
''Herne bay, indeed! What ever made
you think of such place?'-Black
and White.