The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-08-14

CATS HEAD WHERE THE CORK OUGHT
TO BE.
women's forty cent stockings at q
cents pair, you never fail to observe
the advertisement"
'.Do you think you have the instincts
spoken OFF,
.'Think! I know I have. 1 have
known it for years. One can't deceive
himself about such things. There isn't
the slightest question i'll my mind but
that I was born for u great artist
.sWas that why you were going to
paint the front fence blue and the
gate red this spring?'
Could Not Understand Him.
Mr.. Bowser was walking around the
sitting room with his hands crossed be-;
hind his back. At the words his face
got red, and he stopped short and gave
Mrs. Bowser look that would have
swept all the towels off the clothes
, line on wash day and followed it by.
saying:
sHow could Iexpect that q mind
like yours could understand one like
mine? You can sit down to dish Of
{ pork and beans and yum-yum over it,.
but you'd stand by a hoIlyhock the
> whole afternoon and never think it
was any different from cornstalk."
"Weu, dear, let's not dispute" re-
piled Mrs. Bowser after a moment.
: ssYou have said that your grandfather
was as artist, and perhaps his mantle
has fallen on your shoulders. Are you
going to try to paint landscape?'
It took Mr. Bowser five minutes to
get over his injury, and he was still
sulky over it when he said:
"No, I'm not, but Pves bought a
kodak and propose to take few pic
lures this summer. Any objections
to that: Got any more sneers ready?'
'None whatever. I think it good
thing, and I believe you will make a
success Of it. I will learn how to op-
crate it, and when you are at the Office
I"-
''Not much you won't! It's some
thing not to be fooled with. You'd
use it just as you would coal hod.
+ shall do the artist work for this
family"
Unwrapped Camera.
He cut the strings Of the package
and unwrapped fine kodak and ex-
planned that he had paid only $40 for
it because he had once served on cor
oners jury with the man who sold it.
It would have been $50 to any one
else.
"Wouldn't one for SIS have done just
as well?" queried Mrs. Bowser after
looking the instrument over. II mean
wouldn't it have been just as we'll
to get cheap one until you were sure
about the artistic instincts?"
':Not by a burned sight! A cheap
kodak may do for a scrub person, but
I want the best. So you still doubt
the instincts? You hear me. Mrs
Bowser, when I tell you that there is
more Of the born artist in my little
finger than there is in all your re-
lations for ten generations back.
Enough, however. I am now going out
into the back yard to take few fash
light pictures. You and the cook can
hold one of your heart to heart talks
and wonder if I'm MT crazy"
Mr.. Bowser had taken the picture Of
( cat walking on the fence when the
neighbors got on to him. The fathers
and mothers stopped at curiosity. but
the boys went further. They rained
bottles and cans into the Bows,r yard
and one missile struck the kodaller
on the head and drove him inside the
house. In the kitchen he tried to get
the cook to pose for ''study" he was
going to call Industry" but she flew
the coop at once.
Cook Took No Chances.
ut may be a kodak or it may be an
Internal machine" she protested, "aRd