The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-01-10

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for two years you get out OF the habit
OF carrying them around with you.
impatiently she jerked the sim shirt
waist of and looked for something
else She thought for a moment that
she would put on her Peter Pan suit,
but with n Peter Pan you have to
wear smart four.in-hand ito, and she
had always used Toms four-in.hands.
o. very we'll. She pulled out a
dainty muslin waist with an attached
collar and slipped her arms into, It.
Alas! II buttoned up the back. She
struggled until she had fastened the
two top buttons and then twisted
round TIL her muscles ached to hitch
The lower buttons. When she had
worked herself into q dripping per-
spiration and nearly sprained her
right wrist, there still remained two
unfastened buttons at the acute angle
OF her back. They were tho two Tom
had always buttoned. She finished
dressing with q horrible consciousness
OF her openwork back and wondered
what time II was. Alas! she had for
gotten to take the family clock o,
II Tom were only there with his
watch. She'd write to Tom and ask
him to send the clock. After Is min
utes' search she found the stub OF a
pencil somewhere at the bottom OF
her ribbon box. The pencil had no
point Vaguely she looked about
She knew there was something she
wanted 1t was Toms rnzor-to sharp
on that pencil!
MEANTIME
He turned over In bod tho morning
after the flight OF his wife with feel.
Ing of relief. No more nagging, no
mote questions whom he staid out lnte.
Gee! He was going to have the time
of his life.
He started TO pull on his boots.
but found his feet were warm and the
backs OF the oxford ties stuck to his
heels. He got up to look for a shoe
horn. but he could not fnd one. Then
II suddenly occurred to him that HIS
wife had tnken her silver shoenorn
with her. He got into the shoes ms
best he could and began to shave
When he finished he reached mechani-
cally down in to a side drawer for the
tnlcum powder and the powder pun.
They were gone!
He wen. out into the kitchen and
cut a piece of bread ready for toast.
Ing The knife slipped and shaved a
bit OF flesh from his finger When he
had stopped the bleeding he won't
back into the dressing room to look
for some court plaster. Alas: that,
too. had gone with the powder puff
and the shoehorn. and the wife. He
hunted high and low for some cold
10 tie up his wounds, but she had
taken the cold cream with her, and he
didn't know where she kept the rags.
When he had finished a cold and
lonely breakfast. he put on his coat
and took his hat. prepared to start
for town. Just then he noticed tina,
a button was hanging to one thread
to his coat After he had looked the
house over from garnet to cellar for
a needle and a piece OF thread. he de-
cided that he would rather cut the
button of. This was a good idea. bu.
It took him Ave minutes more to dis
cover that his wife's scissors wer,.
lost to him forever. and to find his
jackknife and amputate the button
Just as he was starting out of the
house boy handed hinOa special de-
livery letter. II was written with an
evidently pointless pencil and he had
some difficulty in making out it's
rtbbled words. They we're:
Dear Tom-l'm sorry to trouble
you. but please send ME the clock and
your razor and the shoe polish and a
collar button-aud I'm sorry l said
all those hateful things
He wondered why his heart seemed
to grow suddenly so much lighter.
but he went inside and wrote this
answer as quickly as he could:
Dear Girl-Come back home and
bring your powder pun and the scis-
Sors and the needles; have anything
you ~ant"-N. Y. Press
An unpronisins Match
Mrs Henpeck-My dear Won VIII