The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

II have been thinking. Of course Mrs.
Bowser ought to have gone and | should
away. | don't believe there is a better
woman on the face Of this earth. If ! had
some women to live with they'd shut me
lives to come back she viii find me diff
ferent man. was intending to tell her
leaving, and that she could never keep any
girl four weeks under her system, but 1
didn't have time and am now glad
! didn't Her system of running the house
| is all right.
Il have slept again but only for few
minutes. A pa trolman came along and
leaned up against the gate and coughed
like horse. l went up to the window
head off with his own club. and he said
if I'd come down he'd make me holler
in about two minutes.
I've been thinking some more. OF
course, my mother-in-law couldn't help
being taken sick. and l shouldn't have
spoken of her as 1 did. She may be iron
hearted She is great hand to boss
around when she comes to see me, but
said that she would like the handling of
me for about half an hour, and that she Il
that is only her old fashioned way of ex
pressing herself. | can remember a hun
dred kindnesses on her part and l should
be sorry to say or to do anything to hurt
her feelings.
1T is now ? O'Clock in the morning.
have been awakened again by that infer
nal cat Size does not know what awaits
her before the clock strikes the hour of
noon, but J. do. No cat can wake me up
three or foul times on the same night
and live to boast of it to other cats. can
remember many. many instances of un-
hide if / amt sorry for each and every
one. When she got on the train | told
her that she could stay a month If she
wanted to. but if she isn't home by even
ing l shall teiegrap h her to come by the
first train If gel her back home again
I'll be different man from what I have
been What right has any husband TO
browbeat and bulldoze a wife?
II have been thinking again about my
up with a better hearted woman. She is
always ready to sacrifice herself for 9th
ers. and she. seems to take delight IN DO
ing good deeds. There have been tunes
when she has talked to me in the plaineSt
manner. and when I have wondered why
on earth she couldn't die in a decent and
respectable way. but when l come to think
things over | realize that | was in the
wrong. | do hope that her Illness is moth
ing serious. AS soon as the office is open
in the morning I'll send telegram of in
curry If she's no better I'll go upon the
noon train Should Providence see fit to
cali her from larth away she shall have
tombstone costing at least $3.50, and with
a lamb on top at that. trust. however,
thaY She may live for 90 years yet.
Have been awakened for the hundredth
time by that villainous cat. She seems to
be denying somebody or something. IL
is the end. 1 am now going down to finish
q have armed myself with the club 1
keep for burglars. 1 am on my way down.
stairs, and-hcly smoke!
Mr.. Bowser reached the head of the
stairs to look down upon cats-scores OF
cast-mobs of cats-acres of cats, winch
had entered the back windows by way or
the roof of the shed and had taken pos
session of the house. As he stood ana
looked they t4rhea Inelr fhey
rushed together and began fighting, and
the curtain went down on a night of I'M
qualified suecess.-(Copyright' 1913 by L