The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-22
home in the night. Go on, Mr.. Bow

home in the night. Go on, Mr.. Bow
SER
He looked at her for moment and
flushed up and swallowed. but he
wanted to prove his case, and after q
bit he continued:
1--WE have known that there was tc
be a worlds fair at st. Louis for a
year past, haven't WEI"
"Of course
"But have ever said that we would
attend it? Have you even heard me
say I'd like to go?'
IT don't think so. While everybody
else, even down to the banana ped
dlers, have gone or are going, 1t is a
subject you have kept clear of.
mentioned it once, but you fell asleep
while thinking out reply"
You but corroborate what have
said, Mrs. Bowser. Not knowing whether
/ could shape my affairs to go l have
said nothing about it. OF what use to
promise you to go and then fail to keep
it? Today, however-today at 4:3O
O'Clock, saw my way clear, and now,
only two hours later, / have the salts
faction of announcing to you that we
shall make a two-weeks' visit to the
fair
You dear, good man, but how nice
of you! / can be ready in about ten
days, and I shall look upon it as the
great event of my life"
''I think observed that ] was a man
of action?'
Eyes, you said So
"And 1 am going to prove it in this
case. We leave on the $3.50 train in the
morning"
But how can we?" she exclaimed in
terror. II have got to have about fifty
different things, and it will take at
least two days to pack the trunks. You
surely"
The trunks will be packed tonight,
and what you lack you can buy at st.
Louis. I understand that they have at
least one dry goods store there. Having
AZ he n q
we will now go upstairs and proceed to
pack"
But it can't possibly be done. If
you had ever packed a trunk you
would know"
Mrs. Bowser, was packing trunks
before you were BORN You couldn't
have been over five years old when
wrote and published a little book en-
titled: How to Pack Trunk in Seven
teen Seconds That book is to be found
in almost every house in America to-
day / should say that we ought to
take three trunks with US. We may
not pack the whole three in less than
one minute, but we can do it in five,
and then sit down and talk about what
we expect to see."
Cant / have four or five days?" she
pleaded.
mot day. We leave at the hour
named
"But two days. then-even one"
.sMrs. Rowser," he said as he made for
the stairs, we VIII now 20 up anu PACK
and after you have seen me fling the
things into trunk and lock and strap
It half the terrors of trunk packing Will
be gone. The trunks are in the store
room, but 1 will have them out while
you are throwing that yaller-eyed old
cat downstairs. I hope he starves to
death while we are gone"
The three trunks came out. Mr.. Bow
ser ripped off three of the handles and
made the splfnters fly from the door
castings in doing it, but he made record
time Winter garments packed In cam
nhor were emptied out and kicked aside,
while Mrs. Bowser stood with quivering
chin and helpless look. Then he entered
the closet and lifted three or four of her
dresses off the pegs and chucked them in
10 one of the trunks with an abandon
that brought out the excla mation:
sfFor rnercy's sake, don't do that! 1e
Won fling things in that way they will
have thousand creases and wrinkles by
Woman, don't worry about creases and
wrinkles replied Mr. Bowser, as he
went after a second load. THE instruc-
tons as laid down in my book are alright
and have been adopted by the leading