The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-03-28

surprseu TO see me. Heard some O
them limiting that Mrs. Bowser mus
be dead.
Talked politics and played poker.
Talked Cuba and played more poker
Talked Panama canal and had q
flush.
Held threes and straights and big
pairs and never once thought of Mrs.
Bowser. Free as air and feeling like a
four-year-old.
Men Fools to Marry.
What asses men make Of them
selves when they marry! Just let Mrs
Bowser give me one sassy word when
she gets back and
Il have an indistinct recollection of
dropping something at poker, but
whether it was a cent or SO | shall
never know In fact. | don't care.
When / set out to have a good time
there's nothing stingy about me.
Il remember speaking about go
ing home at o'clock In the morning
but some one asked what's the use.
and | said no more. Don't remember
getting home. Don't remember
policeman kindly unlocking the front
door for me and calling me a regular
Jim Dandy. Can't remember the cook
finding me lying in the front hall
when she came down. The first |
knew | was up and dressed and pity
bide with him and be Iib" h'r' " -tpar
- ,n1 "tai. VINO ues himself TO Wife.
policeman met me at the gate as |
arted for the Office and wanted to
now If | was going to pay for that
'indow. l didn't even ask him what
'indow he meant. but when he said
le damage was 81 I pulled out the
oney and paid it like a man. Cook
rushed feathers off my clothes and
cked straWs out of my hair before |
t down to breakfast. but she was
screet-very discreet. She said she
'ed to pick up feathers and straws
hen she went to sacred concerts.
"Sunday.-Woke up with recollec-
)n-several recollections; also a sore
roat and headache Breakfast in
d. More recollections and headache
an breakfast !,
Symnnthi1ed In His Loss. q
Cook very kind and thoughtful. Dis n
yered that had lost my watch and h
with me. il
discovered that | had lost my wal Ii
and said 1t didn't matter as long as x
lad had good time. },
l don't think | came home in ait oI
lbulance. Neither Of my legs are
'ken, and why should have done Ia
| don't think | slept ON the front
ps. When a man has a house he IL
cps inside Instead of outside of II.
ort O. wish Mrs. Bowser was home.
'k says | have quite n fever. She
ributes 1t to political excitement. :.
8. Bowser Is one of the best hands ad
case Of fever I ever heard Of r. di
,ht reach her by telephone, but Cl
- Doctor has been here. on
8 | have had narrow escape. Il,
s man of my age ought to have wi
life to hold him down. Says there's sLl
particular harm in moving pictures, J ~I
deville shows, sacred concerts. Iie
er games, gin fizzes. highballs, rab. Ca
clubs and sleeping in the front hall
1ken in moderate doses, but that
u TO have overdone the thing. aht
'ook Is kindness itself, but she isn't Il 4 u
Bowser. ns ne
now begin to understand why men nm
ry and why man Is an ass who th,
snt There" is something sacred So
ut home There is nothing sacred
ut a sacred concert.
'oOk continues her kindness. She
just limited that she has nothing to
Mrs, Bowser, who viii arrive early
orrow morning. am counting the
's. ] shall explain to her that it is
ard cold, but she will suspect the
b and forgive me.
)ear Mrs. Bowser! Durn hlghballs Cll
life of freedomw NJ, QUAD. ~,