The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-08-07

chances more than even that III be
overcome by the heat in my own bed
right in the middle of the night before
autumn, or whether you can reconcile
yourself to my having a breath of en-
| durable country air while the hot months
last That's the proposition in a nut
shell, and I'll be obliged if you'll put
yourself on record as to how you stand
on it."
"Oh, you know how little / suffer
from the heat" began Mrs Jobson, 'and
of course l want you to be comfortable,
but"
well, it's settled, then" broke in Mr..
Jobson, effectively choking off Mrs Job
sons but" ''I'll write the ad. this even
ing, and you can take it down first thing
in the morning-elegant house, fully fur
nished for housekeeping, for rent from
June 1 to October Trent merely nom
inal-something like that" and Mr. Job
son was so full of his great scheme that
he went right upstairs and wrote the ad.
end read it aloud to Mrs. Jobson, and
then stuffed it into her chain purse, so
that she would be sure to have it in
1t was still exceedingly hot and hu-
mid on the following morning, and at
the breakfast table Mrs. Jobson asked
Mr.. Jobson if he was still in the same
mind as to renting the house, furnished,
for the summer
Il don't change my mind every 20
| minutes, Mrs. Jobson," he replied, crush
ingly, as he wiped his brow before clap
ping on his hat. Mrs. Jobson, obe-
dient to ORDERS had the ad inserted
that day
A cool, rollicking breeze out of the
northwest sprang up that afternoon, and
Mr.. Jobson was whistling cheerily when
he arrived home.
What corking breeze this 'ud make
for the yacht races!" he said, delighted
ly, to Mrs. Jobson, as he ate his din
ner with gusto-but Mrs. Jobson did not
look happy.
Mr.. JObsOn was watering the front
grass with hose, and humming to
himself. when they began to arrive.
They" were the folks who had read
the Jobson advertisement of furnished
house for the summer Mr.. Jobson had
forgotten all about that affair, and he
looked at the stream of prospective fur
nished house tenants with amaZement
plentifully mixed with wrath. He
dropped the garden hose and went into
the house and gloomed around the sit
ting-room, while the procession of crit
icising women, and their helpless, but
half-ironical husbands, were taken all
h1y Toh
was a lull in the procession along toward
eight o'clock.
Mrs. Jobson," sternly commanded
Mr.. Jobson, ''you will please get on your
hat-we are going to close this house
up against this tide of impertinent rub
bernecks, and go for car ride"
Mr.. Jobson kept his lips tightly COM
pressed until they were on board the
car Then he turned to Mrs. Jobson
with an expression of deep pain.
go" he said, sepulchrally, you haye;
at last rugged up scheme to take the
roof from over my head, have you?"
Dear me" began Mrs. Jobson, didn't
you tell me to-"
You've finally cooked up a plan to
have the things that it's taken me years
to get together macerated to pulp and
ruined, and destroyed, hey?" said Mr..
Jobson. ignoring her words, and warm
ing up. But it don't go, madam-I'm
telling you that-it don't CO."
But" hopelessly expostulated Mrs.
Jobson, didn't you tell me that you
were going to live in the country this
summer, and ="
1--WE been living in Washington for
good many years, madam, and the cap
ital of the United States is good enough
for me-" broke in Mr.. Jobson. "And If
you think for holy minute that you're
going to chase me out of my own home,
during the best season of the year for
housekeeping, just because you're too
tired to keep house-if you think you're
going to turn my bed over to any old
riff-raff that comes along to sleep in
my chinaware to eat off of and smash
to smithereens-my furniture to maui
around and mess up-my piano to- pound
rag-time tunes On-my bathtub to
splash in-then, madam, the sooner I
have you taken before lunacy commits
sion the better it's going to be for all
hands, and can tell you that that time
is not far off, either!
Star.
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