The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-03

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A CATS HEAD WHERE THE CORK OUGHT
TO BE.
wolnen's forty cent stockings at Is
cents a pair, you never fail to observe
the advertisement"
"Do you think you have the instincts
spoken Off
''Think! | know I have. I have
known It for years. One can't deceive
himself about such things. There isn't
the slightest question In my mind but
that was born for u great artist"
'Was that why you were going tc
paint the front fence blue and the
gate red this spring.
Could Not Understand Him.
Mr.. BowscEwas 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. Bowscr look that would have
swept all the towels or the clothes
line on wash day and followed 1t by
saying:
Glow could expect TINT mind
like yours could understand one Ike
mine? You can sit down to dish Of
pork and beans and yum-yum over 1t.
but you'd stand by a holIyhock the
whole afternoon and never think 1t
was any different from cOrnstalk."
"Well. dear, let's not dispute" re-
piled Mrs. Bowser after moment.
''You 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 I've bought a
kodak and propose to take few pic
lures this summer. Any objections
to that? Got any more sncCrs rcady?'
"None whatever. I think 1t good
thing, and believe you win make a
success of It. I will learn how to OPP
crate it, and when you are at the office
r.
mot much you won't! It's some
thing not to be fooled with. You'd
use It just as you would coal hod.
1 shall do the artist work for this
family"
UuwrapPed 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
oner's jury with the man who sold 1t.
1t would have been $50 TO any one
else.
"Wouldn't one for S. have done Just
as well| Queried Mrs. BOwser after
looking the instrument over. ~ mean
wouldn't It have been just rs we'll
to get a cheap one until You were sure
lbout the artistic instlnctsI"
"Not by burned sight! A cheap
kodak may do for a scrub person, but
1 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 littl"
finger than there Is In MI your re-
lations for ten generations back.
Enough, however. am now going out
into the back yard to take few flash
light pictures. You and the cook can
hold one Of your heart to heart talks
ana wonder II I'm MT crazy"
Mr., BowSpr had taken the picture Of
n cat walking on the fence when the
neighbOrs got on to him. The fathers
aud mothers stopped at curiosity. but
the boys went further. They rained
bottles and cans into the BOwser yard,
aud one missile struck the kodaEcr
on the head and drove him inside the
house. In the kitchen he tried to get
the cook to pose for n "study" he was
going to call Industry" but she flew
the coop at once.
Cook Took No Chances.
at may be a kodak or 1t may be an
Internal machine" she protested. "and
I'm not going to take any chances.
had an aunt who posed In front Of
one Of those things once, and all of .
sudden there was a fizz.bang, and al
they found Of her was one rib and Q
scream ofterror."
When Mr.. Bowser passed through
the house Mrs. Bowser asked where
he was going. He replied that he
would take a little wander around the
streets toieatch some character studies