The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-18

dries are situated in Troy. That steak
tonight was made up right in our fam
lily butcher shop, and moreover from
tough old meat that could not be other
wise used"
Mr.. Bowser you might as well call
me an idiot and be done with itP' she
Indignantly exclaimed. THAT steak was
imported from Hamburg direct. No
butcher would dare fool me like that
But one has. Iv9ave been in the
shops when they were chopping up the
meat What did he charge you per
pound?" 90
Fifteen or sixteenncents. L believe.
We'll, If you had, mad IL forwarded
from Hamburg it svould have cost q
dollar a pound at the least. You meant
well, OF course, but you have been
fooled
II WON'T believe 1t until I investigate"
she replied, and rising up She went up
stairs for her hat. When she came down
I asked: srf,-u
Going to Hamburg to see about it?''l
/ NO sir. I am going over to the
butchers, and if he has fooled me about
that steak it's the last thing I'll ever
/ buy of him. Don't you run away while
I'm gone. I may bring the man back
with me. I have been tainted right in
my own house with being anoodle-head,
and we'll see who is the noodle-head
when I get through"
should never have known what
happened at the butchers but for the
plumber who happened to be in there.
Mrs. Bowser walked in with her jaw
'sot" and raped her knuckles on the
meat block and said.
Butcher, you sent me over a Ham
burger steak this afternoon
Yes. Mrs. Bowser. Anything wrong
with it2,
did that steak come from Ham
burg Germany"
.~Then. where did It come from %
''Well, 1 get most of my beef in Chi
cago. you know
Il know nothing about It. When
was in here two weeks. ago you asked
me If ever tried a Hamburger steak
and advised me to import one from
Hamburg. You now admit that 1t came
from Chicago. Are you ready to adj
nit. also, that it was old steak chopped
up fine? Mr.. Bowser says 1t is.
MY dear woman. a Hamburger
steak is not necessarily made in Ham
burg. You see
Il don't see at all. sir. If I buy a
Paris hat for a Paris hat and ind that
it was made in Oshkosh they are going
I that you swindled me2
my dear. dear Mrs. Bowser," re-
piled the butcher. as his face length
ended, you came in here and"
You advised me to try a Hamburg
er steak. You gave me to understand
| that It was a. steak prepared by a fat
Dutch butcher in Hamburg, and that
having tried one would take no
other. It turned out that the beef %as
killed in Chicago. You took old scraps
of steak and chopped them up fine Mr..
Bowser is sitting chuckling at home
and I have got to go back and face
him and admit that I was in the wrong
He'll crow over me for the next twenty
years, but I'll make you pay for it."
I knew how the thing would come
out. Mrs. Bowser came in looking
pale-faced and mad and when I asked
her what sort OF a town Hamburg was
she pretended not to hear me and fell
into a chair like a bag OF sand, and
remarked:
AN express wagon brought bundle
here this afternoon. I suppose some
one has been working you for a soft
snap again %
ITS simply new patent fire escape
'.whatl Another That makes about
Is. Mr.. Bowser, it's a wonder that
somebody doesn't coax the shoes OF
your feet. what on earth do we need
a fire escape for?''
ITO escape from the second story II
case there IS a IRE below"
'Nonsensei We have been keeping
house over 20 years. and never had Z
fire yet. It's no wonder the papers
roast you the way they do. BiftesI
different fire escapes In the last tel
years. and not one OF them good fOl
anything It's wonder somebody dom
come along and sell you balloons
1 whistled and patted the cat and Ie
Mrs. Bowser have her say, but hat
a little Job put uD O1s her. AS soon 81
she was asleep I slipped down stair.
with a handful Of cotton batting and Sc
It on fire in the hall. It the same tins
attached my fire escape tc one OF thu
windows had hardly Got back into bes
before she woke up and screamed a
! s'out Of bed with you. Mr.. Bowser