Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-01-10
LOST HIS TEMPER.

A Domestic Tale For the Hot h,ad.d
/ Man to Digest.
| A certain prominent lawyer not
ed for having temper when pro-
voked was invited, with his wife, to
a doings out in sassiety the other
night.
| Of course he got out his ,ning
clothes, including an expansive
bosomed shirt and all the rest Of
the full dress outfit.
When he was all ready to start,
and his wife kept remarking that
they, were late, he noticed that his
patent feathers looked sort of dingy
down about the sole, and his wife
agreed that his shoes didn't look
right. Then he remembered. that
they had some liquid shoe polish in
the house that would be just. the
thing, and he went after it.
AS he was finishing the feft shoe
he Strengthened up for moment
and noticed that he had dropped a
wee teentsy drop of the polish on
his snowy white shirt bosom. It
was such a small particle, hardly as
big as a pin head, that it wouldn't
have mattered. Probably no one but
himself would have noticed it. But,
finding it there just as he was about
to start for the society event that
he was to be dragged off to, it ruff
fled him.
tLook at this!" he called to his |
wife. |
81 don't see anything but a little |
speck on your shirt," responded the |
faithful and doting wife mildly.
"That's all you SIZE, hey? Well,
you'll see more'n that pretty quick.
I'm here to tell you! If this dauber
and shirt are going to give me trou-
BILE, I'll just make the shirt look
real good and rotten while we're
at it~ Whereupon he took the
aauber and drew two broad black
lines down over the shirt bosom,
then two across, forming a double
cross effect; then to that he added
| lot of scrolls and crosses at diff
.erent angles until the shirt front
ooked like dissipated printers
;owel.
'sNow, then~ remarked the law
rer triumnhant1v-
81 should say it was now, thenp
Vow, then, indeed!" This from his
wife. ssNow we can't go to the par
y at all-and after going and get
ing new gown for the affair! All
n account of that abominable, un-
overnable temper of yoursw And
he swept from the room.
The lawyer by that time was cool
ng down. His work on his shirt
ront had served to relieve his tenn
er just as he intended it to, and he
egan then to look for another shirt,
ut every other dress shirt had been
snt to the laundry, and all, the
sores were closed. He happened
think of a friend up the street
ho would wear about the same
ze shirt he did, and he rushed to
ae phone to call him up, but the
lchange girl handed him back that -
'ntalizing "They don't answer"
i'd then it occurred to him that, of .,
'urse the friend wasn't at home,
n Of course he and his wife were
T that, time on the way to that
me party that he should have been
his way to by that time>like an =
bright, decent gentleman.
His wife was right-they would
I've to stay home, and he knew !
hat it meant to keep his wife II
me from something for which she lo
ID bought brand new outfit. % %
here was no chance to shift the ali
anne either. His wife had him TIE
orally with the goods on, and the nv
ods were still there on his shirt 81
ont. W W
If you think by reading on far =
er you'll find that he got out of it
you might as well 90
cad and finish your breakfast or
latever you're doing. They stay
home. M
And, although that was several 49,
Us ago and he's been taking Wa
lngs home to his wife every even Be-, sel
since and staying in nights and ma ma
ing the model husband act like cha cha
that was brought up to it, he miT ipT
mt squared himself yet.-Cleve- mo! mo
d Plain Dealer, to ass