Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-12-10


now the time Is drawing pretty close
when a fellow will have to be mighty
careful about opening bureau drawers
when his wife is in the room II he
doesn't want to be scared into a con-
niption when she notices what he's
doing. Y'sec, this is just about the
beginning of the season when wives
start to hiding the Christmas presents
they've bought for their husbands.
Funny gag, that too.
Then there's another thing about
this Christmas present hiding bust
ness. Most men stick it out that wom-
en- are the curious, inquisitive sex,
don't they? Well, | don't believe it.
In my opinion men are a whole heap
more curious and inquisitive than
women. Fact is, know it.
For instance, a husband, long
about this season that's approaching
is cropping around for 4 fresh shirt
upon getting up in the morning He
yanks out the wrong drawer Of the
bureau. Well, on this morning he
pulls out the bottom bureau drawer,
her hair at the chiffonier in an
other part of the room, catches him
in the act just in time, lets out her
little squawk, and races over to the
bureau and pushes the drawer shut
$50 it's there, hey?' he says to
her. 'Scuse me for living and then
the mullethead goes on grinning like
oh I,s1 1. ~
hair. Then he turns to her.
'Watchoo got in there, anyway
he asks her
"She tells him, with a grimace,
and very properly, that it's none of his
business. And she adds something
about folks that rubber
But, say, g'wan and tell me what
choo got in there. won't your he tries
again. wheedlingly.
"Whereupon his wife makes mention
of that feline that met an untimely
end through curiosity.
"'That's all right about the cat
says the husband then, but I'll bet
you new rubber plant that it's cigars
that you've got in there And then
he begins to look a bit alarmed Say,
hope not, though. I'm thinking about
swearing off smoking soon now, any
how
But this hint of his about the ci-
gars doesn't get the least bit Of
rise out of her Not much. Nothing,
whatever doing in the conversational
line on her part
"'Oh, I'm a pinhead, sure enough
her husband says then, after pause,
and still consumed and just eaten
alive by curiosity. I might have
known all the time that it's a shaving
outfit. That's exactly what it is, for
a sure thing
However,, his wife most carefully
adjusts her side combs and quite re-
his hands into his trousers pockets
and looks her over quizzicaly.
"'Aw, come on, now, like good
girl, and tell me II you've gone and
got me that bath robe that we were
looking at in the shop window the
other afternoon, he says to her in his
most persuasive tone.
"'Say, Minnie, you might let fell
Ter see what you've got tucked in
there, at that
Just compare the attitude of the
average husband in this Christmas
gift business with the position Of his
wife on that same subject. She doesn't
really want to know what he is going
to give her for Christmas She wants
to be 's'prised'
"Look, here, hum he says to her
some morning along toward Christmas
usually he puts it off till about the
last day, when everything is all picked
over in the stores-Look a-here, my
dear. whatchoo want for Christmas,
hey? It's up to you, you know?'
why, the very idea! she exclaims.
Up to me! Preposterous! Why, it
wouldn't be any Christmas gift at all
If I told you what l wanted you to
get for me-
"'Oh, that's one way of looking at
IT,, he says But, dye know, | was
about getting you
"Sh-sh-sh! Stop!' she cries. Don't
you dare tell me, Jack Gosling. Don't
you dare!'
"All the same, she's foxy. at that.
After a while an idea strikes her.
You know, of course, Jack, she
says, musingly that If you are wor-
ried about the sizes of things. why,
your sister Agnes and | wear exactly
the same sizes in everything, and
She
but. Nix he breaks in. 1T isn't
anything that comes in siEes. It's one
If those
And again her fingers go into her
ears. The 's'prise is the whole thing
% her. Snd she is resolved not to hear
n advance what he is thinking OF get.
ing for her.
Now. IL all this doesn't come pretty