The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-30
THE BROk EN-
PITCHER
MENDiN0 IT WAS QUITE An
UNDERTAKING

pitcher like that | know you've
lbrolsen it.'
Mr.. Gormey gave her look that
said Now, you shut up, will your
omptied the pitcher and held 1t up to
the light As he squinted into the Jug
Il Mrs. Gormey tried TO do the same. \
They struggled In silence, each head h
pushing against the other. but Mr..
Gormey stood MS ground SO well thal
Mrs. Gormey desistsd at last and went
back TO her chair.
Well" she asked, impatiently, did I
n II knock little hole in it?"
N Mr. Gormeys face was hidden by
The pitcher, but his ears took upon !
/ themselves am expression which be-
tokened that here was man looking
at something so interesting that II n
| was ais good as play.
4 "Ah,h said Mr.. Gormey, Withdraw Z
ling his face from the mouth of the
! jug.
He put 1t down on the table 1.-THE
ing, not his facet. but just as Mrs.
| Gormey reached over for 1t he picked
4 IL up again and took another long, sat
4 isfylng look
| My lovely pitcheri' walled Mrs.
| Gormley. Its always the way when
| have anything | like. You seem 10
do 1t on purpose"
Yes" whispered Mr. Gormey to-
himself, and speaking into the Jug, n
j can mend Il. Yes
| He replaced 1t on the table, kindly
allowed his wife to snatch ii up and
apply 1t TO her eye and listened 10
her lamentation with the smile of
1 deepest dissatisfaction.
Yes, he repeated to himself II
can mend 1t. Now let me see. A
bit Of putty would stop the hole. but
wait! Is putty poisonous2 What IL
putty made off,
Chalk and linseed oil. sighed
Mrs Gormey into the pitcher.
Giving her an appropriate look,
Mr. Gormey went TO his tool chest.
found d bit OF putty. and brought il to
the light,
He weighed 1t In his hand, saying
iudicially There's lot of white
lead In it from the heft OF Il, that's
sure" He broke on small piece
and scrutInized 1t carefully. raising
his head at last to say Get me the
/ nagnifying glass" Mrs Gormey
fetching him the instrument in ques-
ton. he made lengthy microscopic
| examination of the putty.
I'm sure It's chalk and began
| Mrs Gormey.
Chalk and tiddlesticks, said Mr.
| Gormey. IF Ii isn't half white lead
I'll eat it. Wait tin get the diction-
airy; that will tell"
| re- went to the dictionary and
turned tfiumphantly to putty.
| "A plastic Substance" he read dry
Ing hard on exposure to the air. much
nsed for holding glass in Window
| frames"
He looked up glass" glaciers"
windows panes and plastic ana
then he put the putty under the mag
nifylng glass again Inspired by this
he looked up lead, white lead. red
lead" metals" "pulyerized' and full
| lers earth"
Where's that old book ON chemis-
try?" he suddenly asked
After half an hours search they
found IL at the back OF one OF the
Oook-shelves. and Mr.. Gormey poi-
ishsd his spectacles and began to
search the book
I.sfruf - ba TURNED a.,
ter on lead, and with z proud look NJ
Mrs. Gormey he read aloud: Lead
compounds are poisonous. producing
saturnine collie OF even. paralysis
Yes" said Mrs Gormey. 4 know
it's poisonous. but Is putty made u
lead?"
20, of course said Mr.. Gormey.
You know it's poisonous o. yes,
You know everything don't your" and
waiting not for her impassioned de-
tense, be Dored over acetate Of lead,
oxyacefAte of lead. nitrate OF lead,
lodidel ~ lead. oleate OF lead and other
kinds OF lead more than a vigorous
man could shake a stick at
Lead and tin make solder" he read
aloud
Yes. I know they do. but"
Mr.. Gormev made a slbiiant sound
OF rich derision and after exhausting
the chapter on lead he cried aloud;
What fool am" and needing not
Mrs. Gormey's look OF unfeigned ap-
prevail he turned TO the bookcase and
took down volume PHYPZo Of the en-
cyclopedia.
An hour later Mr.. Gormey had
every volume Of the encyclopedia on
the table but one. and that one was
the maps. and his temper was 50 short
that Mrs. Gormey had long since
ceased her remarks.
All. here il Isl he cried at last.
Putty is made Of" tie paused.
picked up the pitcher and the bit OF
putty and began stopping the hole.
We'll. what is Il made of insisted
Mrs Gormey
Chalk and iinseed oil. snapped
Mr.. Gormey. shut upi"
The Quality Of Sympathy.
There is. think. no man that appre-