The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-11-02

resumed the tanning. ami when Mrs.
Bowser said that she was sorry to
make him 20 much trouble he replied:
Its no trouble at all It's priv
icge TO wait on you. See II you can't
go to sleep while sit and fan you."
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Bowser
was asleep. Then the cook cnnie to
tile head Of the stairs and indulged IN
strange motions. and when he slipped
out to see what was wanted she wfiis.
pered:
There's an old woman down in the
think It will he healthy for you 10 keep
her waiting
Mr.. Bowser went down. ana there
sat his motlier-in. law At sight Of him
she rose M and said:
look here. Samuel. what's going on
in this house? Where's my daughter
Have you finally poisoned her off?"
Welcomes Mother. In law.
''I'm glad to see you. mother" he
answered as he held ont his hand. "If
.oi tulu iut NOu NcIc tOlulIlS VI
have been at the depot to meet you.
Tie poor wife is upstairs with one of
her headaches"
And ! suppose you have been jaw
ing around because it happens to be
soY'
Il made her some ten and toast, and
she is now asleep
"You haven't banged around with
hammer or saw?"
mo. mother"
"Nor run the lawn mower or
whlstled dancing tunef"
"No. Come down aud have some
thing to cat before yon go up.
haven't had my dinner yet"
The mother-in-law went down with
him. but she looked at him with doubt
and disirust and finally asked:
"What did you do when you came
home and found Sarah In bcd:"
II tried to make her comfortable, OF
course"
You didn't ask her II she thought
this was public hospitalT
"No."
"You didn't say she must have slept
with her feet out of the Window"
NO
"IOu didn't lay II TO cheese or raw
turnip or chlpped up cabbage and ask
where her sense had gone to-"
"No, mother-nothlng OF the kind"
Didn't say that but for her doctor
bills you'd have been a millionaire by
this time!"
mo"
Would Find Out the Truth.
That was all. but the old lady set
her jaw and said to herself that she'd
find out the truth of things within u
few minutes. When she rose from the
table she said TO Mr.. Bowser:
IL want you right here the whole
evening. No sneaking out to any OF
your clubs"
Il wasn't going to-"
And you don't want to get no flying
machines out I'm the back yard and no
roller skating In the attic"
"No, mother; l shall take book and
sit down and read until you call me-"
The mother-in-law gave him strange
look and then went upstairs to find
the invalid awake and feeling consid-
erably better. When she was told Of
the kind words and attitude Of Mr..
Bowser she thought for moment and
then said:
SARAH, you look out. 1t isn't nat
ural. II isn't the way husbands do.
There's something behind all this"
"Why, mother, how should he nct?"
Natural. The natural way for n
husband 20 act when he comes home
and finds his wife with a headache ID
to blow around and make things worse.
On dozen different occasions I've had
your father call me doll and string
and threaten to get divorce. It's Il
good thing / arrived here when | did.
IL Samuel BOwser has got any little
game Of putting arsenic In your tea OF
spreading paris green on your toast,
he'll have me to deal with"
II was fully three hours before she
descended to the sitting room to see
what Mr.. Bowser was about and to
give him certain instructions to be fol-
lowed ON the morrow, and then she
found him curled up on the lounge and
fast asleep and the cat watching him
from distance.
Looks like innocence" she mur-
INJURED as she bent over him. but you