The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11
S N A p S H 9 T S.

civ" up my Independence
plague take your independence,
Don't enjoy as much OF il as you do?
| tell YOU
what you have told me thousand
times before
Jack, what do you have against the
women anyhow -
"Oh, guess | know thing or two
about them, and they're all alike"
YOU'RE cranky. Look here, take my
own case
Yes, even your own case
Jack, what do you mean"
THAT your wife
'Nou don't know anything about her
You've only seen her once or twice"
Don't matter, She Is handsome. in
tclligcnt, clever, yet for all that AS
jealous as
lack, you're joking Why, I've been
married five years and have two
Don't care if you have dozen
She's Jealous and can prove 1t to you
in less than week III bet II dozen
bottles OF champagne on IT, Take me
W If you dare"
Take you up! or course l will, and
we might as well have the first bottle
now at your expense, because
wen see"
"Why, Jack, the excursion we are go
ing on tomorrow will take us three
days, and you will have only four left"
m ,f hn
The next day they arrived at their
destination. the little summer resort in
the mountains
John. my sister Is going to Join us
here. and AS IN be Juggling my camera
about | shall have TO leave her to your
tender mercies mostly"
"lour sister jack? Why, haven't
seen her since you and We're at col
lego together, and she was just little
girl then. How delightful"
Then followed two days of tramping
about in the mountains, fine weather,
then away again
| Two days later Jack called at the
| home of his friend John is not there,
and that he knew beforehand but his
! wife is. OF course the little trip Jack
! and John have made together becomes
| at once the subject OF conversation.
Yes, indeed, we had most delight.
| ful time The weather, the mountain
! mir and the scenery oh, | enjoyed II
! ever so much. and SO did John, lie
was very much taken with the trip,
and his only regret was that you
weren't with us to enjoy ii too"
Indeed! Well. that was very nice
| for him to remember me. But really |
| preferred TO stay here AT the seaside
with the children. especially as | ann
not very fond of the mountains any
| how. Yet John has been telling me 50
gone"
eyes, I'm sure you would have en-.
| joyed It, OF course | had my camera
with me, and took some pictures,
snapshots Oh, nothing special! Mere
ly amateur work, but | thought you
might enjoy looking at them, ana so
have brought up some Of them for
you. will just leave them here, SO
you can look them over at leisure"
"Well how kind you are! OF course
| snail enjoy them ever so much"
Two hours later John comes home
and finds his wife wearing a look on
her face as threatening as a cyclone
stormcloud,
THAT must have been fine time
you had on your trip
"Certainly. Haven't | been telling
you about it till my tongue almost
won't wag any morer
"Oh, yes indeed! I'm on to you"
"Why, Lottie, dear"
Don't you Lottic, dear me!
know Just what Kind Of "A time you
have had, and I've got II black on
white too Oh, yes, you needn't look
so innocent"
"Why, Lott!c ! told you about all
the places we went to and all the peo.
pie we met"
"Yes. and who IL this woman with
you Who
That Why, that is Jacks sister.
merely forgot
"Oh yes, you can't work that Oh me-
There, how tenderly you help her
across the stile, there eating from the
game lunch basket, and there even
actually holding her in your arms!
You miserable"-
"Why, Lottie, she stepped on stone
and would have tripped ana fallen II
hadn't caught her. but where did you
get these
THAT nice friend OF yours was Kind
enough to give you away"
"a dozen bottles OF champagne"
AnG then he broke down. and he laugh
ed TIL he cried, while his wife looked
on half wrathful half inclined to join
in his merrmcnt, but utterly at sen AZ
10 the cause Of IT, Then he confessed
1t all and she laughed, too; laughed
tin the tears streamed down her face,
but Jack laughed last, and he had the
best laugh Of them all
And Jack. Well. he doesn't seem 10
have had any very serious objection
against women, after all FOR hc got
married lately married Lottic's sister,
who is 80 much ike Lottie that peo-
pie say If II wasn't for the slight differ
ence In their age they never could tell
them apart Francis j Lange in Bos
ton Courier
sure Sign.
"Bilkins must have done something
notable one way or the other, but !