New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-28
SIZE REFORMED JACK.
AND SHE WAS SORRY At THE CHANGE

AND SHE WAS SORRY At THE CHANGE.
From The Washington Star.
The young ma,ron in her pretty bjOg home %
her chin in her two palms and sighed dreariy. Her
two callers. aeo young matrons exchanged glances.
@ s5aa Ses
seem en- SO rG UNHAPPY; Surely Jack Is net Young
iron. Jack IS decidedly not. jack is. Don't fancy
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We'll; q all maystsrlesg exclaimed the two visit.
wrschedY VIVA, can BE- the ' meaning Ia Or ~
Won Do Utter that word reform any SfeneI than
to dpse me Sss lost fr me-
old old, JACK ana don't fancy he'll ever return to HIM
e , ya h o Rs9t b ,heg settled
1ust q teeny little bit-not very much, but once in
wn ns" to not sys h sop aG
you know, two or three times when Jack returned
his, breaththe poor, foolish thing"with the idea
OF Keeping Il from me that he had taken drink or
thought would use my influence with him TO
have him stop drinking altogether Well. We had
Jack stopped drinking altogether I noticed that
ne was growing cross and irritable at times after
that perhaps Jack snok'd too much lie was Tor,
ever smoking cigars. and one evening asked him
altogether Yes he ssid. I think can. and he
did; He abandoned smoking entirely. but gracious
me, how cross 1t did make him! Really. be was
perfectly feroclous at times around the house for
weeks after he stopped smoking
pre but he seemed curiously changed from the old
Jack First, he began tinkerng around the house
when he came home In the evening. He'd hammer
and paint and whltewash and engage In all that
SORT OF thing for hours after dinner so that we had
gan to take an interest in the question OF hygenc
Article @ OF d hs aeTdGd that salt was Injurious as an
sa l from the table and seasoned my own
ss%sf As 6 sGien k S4 SSs and Then Js
ne d.an o,Ways been 50 devoted TO coffee Well
occasional cup Of COFFEE when jack was AZ IL his Sss
Gravel for II So We'll last winter Jack took II into
ter OF habit. and one cyesing when asked him 10
TO look IKE 70 see pay ne replied I've got no money
ing to the theatre? couldn't OF course enter into
an argument with him about It, and so had to go
friends. You are not 10 suppose that lack became
s so Not IN the least But he seemed TO develop
pensvo ters-6nc fSr tse drinR qnSn1sei two sn
Really c %hg he stopped going put alioseher
house He would read his evening pao oSr for Sr the
Tor cabinet work or IKE Ike ne would 90
IT, VI AZ ne began experimenting things in the
nrenars,o ne stur he read about the hyglenlc
i,tep 'a or foods got him into this and truly
IL was terrible Three OF my cooks left within two
n mans dney said they couldn't stand It to have
and and a%isl time getting girls to remain with me
kitchen hn SPOKE to Jack about going into the
caref 1Gpt month ago he Informed that after
. 20 my weighing the subject from every po int
OF view and reading up all OF the best nuthoritss
on the subject, he had determined that the use OF
animal 1000 was delcterious and wrong and he
Panpossed adherng TO vegetable diet altogether
.tnceiorth he invited me 10 Join him in the vsse.
latiah plan OF course I could do nothing but ac-
~, .soe. ior X wouldn't do for me TO have meat on
me 'aoe II JACK didn't partake Of it-and girls DO
;Uu $3.50 snow that am Just starved, | go TO mamma =
49, WY week: and she has big. thick steak for
w. ana | LOOK forward to these events yearningly
49,, Iast night, when Jack came IN from his lodge
ncn Is me only place he visits. met him al the
~ JL lpr me usual salutation. Jack told me that
~ nau Ieci1ed-he was sorry. but he had decided
10 aoandon the habit OF kissing II was a danger
Ous practice. he said. and liable 10 communicate
am III propagate germs or something like that"
\ ne little woman dabbed the corner OF her left
eye with her handkerchief - " "
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