The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-10-28

"Why, because then you would have
saved me twenty-one dollars and half,
and / would be in a position to lay in .
much-needed topcoat."
''You probably forget, with your
usual genius for forgetting, that 81
haven't had new hat this season."
"But there's one thing I'll never for
get, if live to be hundred" he said,
trying to turn the subject from the
hat.
s'Such a statement from you is at
least encouraging, and / am burning
with curiosity to know what it is that
you'll never forget?"
"Why," he replied, tantalizingly, II
shall never forget that expression OF
exaltation and relief that lit your
beautiful girl-face and seemed to say:
Saved, saved at last!' that day at Mount
Desert when l in moment of forget
fulness proposed, and
''Sir, you forget yourself!"
swell, I'll never forget myself again
in the same way if i can help it. On
that occasion / couldn't help it, owing
to the irresistible girl and the subtle
influence of love as inspired by her.
Say. Laura, just tie string around my
finger that may never forget"
"Me?" she broke in, with sweet-six-
teen smile.
"No," he replied, "the quail for lunch
con-"
II will tie the string on when we go
home," she said, with frown. 1T will
be the string tied around the gloves.
But then the luncheon will be to-mor-
row, and suppose I'll have to go out
and purchase few pounds of harps."
"Harps, harps-why, what do you
mean by harps?" he inquired.
Suburban chops that are all strings"
she replied, softly. "And think it is
just too mean for anything that you
went and forgot those birds. Isuppose
1 shall have to give them those tough,
badly trimmed, raggedy--oh, OH" she
almost sobbed.
"You will be all safe, though" re-
piled her husband, cheeringly, so long
as you have such lovely ware to serve
the chops on. These Jones-Brown.
Smiths are ultra-swells, and as such
will never consider the food so long as
the ware is rich and artistic. Now, the
chops will cost fifty cents, while the
quail would cost three dollars"
"Yes," she replied, with woman's
intuition, land then?"
"Then buy the chops in the same
spirit that you bought the gloves; you
will thereby save two dollars and a
half, with which can buy long-need-
ed briar pipe in which to smoke the to-
bacco / am to purchase with the gold
you saved on the glove DEAL
Before she could send home the
Parthian arrow she was fitting to the
string, the conductor thrust his head
roughly through the door and shouted:
"Mosguitohurst!"
Then they stepped off and went home.
After they were comfortably seated in
the library awaiting the announcement
of dinner, he said:
'And now, please show me your
gloves, my dear, and then tie the string
around my finger, if you want me to
remember anything tomorrow"
Goodness" she exclaimed, putting
her foot down spunkily, II have gone
and forgotten my parcel-it's on the
train"
There" he said, tossing her the bum
die gracefully, and kissing her in her
tears, you forgot that stuck it in my
overcoat pocket when the train started.
There is only one woman that never for
got her gloves, and you are lovelier
than she, my DEAR"
''And who was she, pray?"
ssWhy, the Venus de Milo!"-Leslie's
Magazine.