The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-06

30 he was. Turn around hero and let's
SEE what all this hullabaloo il about
We'll. then he grabbed me by the should
ers and yanked me around so that my back
was to the light. and he began on the top
button. He hadn't removed his precious
cigar from his mouth nor dropped his paper
from beneath his arm. and, with those
two things worrying him, he tackled the
buttoning up job.
D course, the smoke from the end Of
his cigar got into his eyes, and the horrid
paper began to slide down. n he NUT
tered some awful things before he had
even got the top button fastened.
-'Dearie.' | said to him, you'll need
both hands and your cigar won't go out
II you rest il for just a teenchy little half
Say, you. who's a-doin' this job any
how Jim growled back at me. but he
rested his cigar on the m~antelpiece and
tossed his paper away and tackled the top
button again.
these doggoned buttons he growled az he
fddled and fooled with the top n still.
Wonder you crazy women wouldn't get in
visible buttons. And. say, what the
dickens is the idea in getting a couple o
or seven would hold the blooming thing
II waited till he'd got the top button all
buttoned and then I said to him.
@My, you certainly, did that quickly. jim:
How delft you are with your fingers, aren't
you? Somehow or another l really be-
iieve that some men are DETER than women
in a whole lot Of things,
s'Oh, stop that spreading the paste on.
you,' said Jim then, still peevish. You
irving to con me along. that's your game.
Blast such Internal almost buttons. any
how-they're not buttons az all. They're
outoff pinheads with holes through EN-.
NV. il isn't POSSIBLE that you'veg OF
five buttons buttoned already said to
him as ne progressed downward. You
see, I wasn't going to let his snub crunch
me. No. indeedy' Well. IL that isn't
quicker than my sister Myrtle could button
It. and Myrtle. too. is the quickest thing
ever saw. Jim. IL you aren't the adapta-
bles, old deqrl'
s'TIh-huh-that's all right about that.
tool guess there are worse slobs on earth
than your husband Jim said then. q good
deal more amiably. You see. the virus Of
fiattery was beginning to work In him. lust
"A II does In all of these Door dear trans
parent men folks II you only keep at 10 long
enough and spread IL on thick enough.
I CUES. Tn not such a mutt as you thoushs
Fright then ! pretended TO have q sudden
idea and 10 pout over something.
-'Why. Jimmie G'ahouse.' said 20 MIN.
making out as II I was beginning 20 doubt
him. I actually do believe you've Hone this
before, and vet you've always sworn that
you never even so much as looked at any
other woman except me, and you mad no
sisters. OF course, and so YOU couldDt nave
learned how TO button shirt waists at tho
back when you were at home. and-and-
look me In the face. james, 0~itahouse-
turn right around and let me look at your
eyes-and now you please tell me where
YOU learned to do his so wellF ,
and then I pulled his head around and
I found Jim looking .self-conscious and
sbeepish and grinninGly gu~iltily--he was
iust tickled Q death. OF course. nc my I'M
putation.
s'Huh--I guess there arc ono or two
little thinRs that maybe o don't know
ali about, all right he said. looking all
swelled up and grinny.
sOh, I know that-but you mus have
h,ttoncd some other shirt waist at the
back 10 know how 10 do It 80 WE'LL
s'wsIi. forget IT, Jim said. juss pleased