The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-06-29
Mr.. Bowssr Thinks.

home her first greeting was:
FL knew you'd like to have {
few games of euchre. and when
Mrs. Green asked us to come over
this evening 1 told her that we
surely would"
In reply he uttered sort OF
groan-a sad, solemn gro n.
"Yonll go, won't your"
Another groan, and still more
sad and solemn.
"Mr. Bowssr are you ilI?" she
asked in sudden anxiety.
Not i'll. woman" he answered.
like man who had been told that
he must have six teeth pulled on
the morrow, "but-but-"
but what9"
but there viii be no enohre for
as tonight. l have been thinking
today. 1 have been thinking how
carelessly and frivously we are
living our lives-how little we care
for the misfortunes of others-how
selishly we lie down at night and
rise mp in the morning, taking NO
heed of the tears aud heartache of
our fellow human beings.
Yes. Mrs Bowser, I've been
thinking, and the result is
I'm ashamed of myself. If dinner
is ready. 1 will eat a few mouth
fuls. but at the same time 1 shall
feel conscience stricken to remem
Der the thousands and thousands
who will dine tonight upon moth
ing better than cold water and po
tato peelings"
81 don't see why you should get
such a fit on" remarked Mrs
Bowser. as they got seated at the
table.
"It is no fit, woman" he replied.
at is rathera a case of conscience.
We have been too frivolous, too
unsymp ithetic, too needless of the
SORROWS of others. Day by day we
have laughed and rejoiced and
made our own selfish plans, but
have We given thought to the
dark shadows lowering Ger the
hearthstone of people around usY"
She saw that he had developed a
new fad, and one that could not be
settled in minute, aud she de-
oided 10 say nothing further until
dinner was over. Mr.. Bowser de
voured q generous piece of porter
house steak and groaned. He
helped himself to creamed pota-
toes and sighed He salted and
chewed up three stalks of celery,
and the tears almost stood in his
eyes. Everything went to show
that there would be a bad half
hour when the sitting roam was
reached, and the cook caught Mrs.
Bowser's eye and gave her to
understand that she had her full
sympathies.
Mr.. 'Bowser did not Immediately
break out after the finish of his
dinner, but walked to and fro and
shook his head and drew long
breaths that tapered off like dying
gusts
The Greens will be very much
Disappointed Mrs Bowser finally
observed. dreading the inevitable,
but yet wishing to have it over
with as soon as possible.
Woman, have you no hearth"
demanded Mr. Bowser, as he turn
ed on her
Down on the next block des.
pair may be enshrouding family,
and yet you are all agoing to spend
the evening as if human tears
were as cheap as waterI'
Il do not know that anything in
particular has happened down on
the next block" she retorted. Ifl
misfortune has come to any one,
near or far. 1 am sorry for it, but
will it do them any good for us to
sit poked up in the houseP You
don't think everybody on this
street sits down and groans and
sighs and weeps when you have
one of your fits of indigestion, do
your"
by John. but how cold-how
cruel-how heartlessp he sighed
as he stepped back to look at her
"Mrs. Bowser, 1 don't believe that
you would shed tear if you heard
that FIVE innocent little children
had been run over and mangled
beyond recognition by a street
car"
eff shed a hundred tears would