The Topeka state journal., 1910-09-24

came down again. smiled Mrs. Bow
ser. isn't your back lame yet? If
you want to do any skimming take the
lawn mower. You can get a grip with
your toes when you push that, and a
five mile breeze doesn't Interfere
'I had an offer of a Western sheep
ranch, but you had to kick the milk
pail over. Wool is higher than for
twenty years, but where am I? Am I
the owner of 100000 sheep, the fleece
of the carcass? Trade all ready to
be made. but you jumped in"
Eyes, I remember those sheep. A
drouth came on and most of them died
of thirst and starvation. The few that
saw the winter come on froze to death
some such thing, but I want no
thanks"
Didn't I invent a hair dyer" he
demanded, as he switched away from
the frozen sheep.
"Oh, yes"
"Bowser's Hair Dye-the best thing
ever put on the market?"
Yes
out of it but for you. You didn't
want me to spend $4,000 advertising
it, and of course it wouldn't go. All,
what an idiot was to let you discour-
age mel"
ages. 1 didn't say anything until then.
The dye took ones scalp off, and you
had to pay him $3.50. After that 1
couldn't see where the profit was to
come i'm
woman, are you to dispute every
thing I say? Isn't it sufficient that
you have kept me down all these
years2"f zss &7t =
"Oh. I'm not disputing," she re.
Piled. I'm just correcting a few of
boT that
you once wanted to trade this house
for a sawmill? %
Indeed, I do. That's where you
knocked me out again. That mill
would have paid me $4,000 a year
right along.'
yes? I didn't make any discourag-
ing figures that time. 1 simply asked
you where the saw logs for the lum-
Der were coming from, and you found
out there were none nearer than fifty
miles,. You have got to have saw logs
to run a sawmill. You can't use it for
a cidermill'
Mrs. Bowser, set out to say
"Yes, I know, but you once wanted
to invest $4,000 in a fire escape"
"And you butted in he shouted.
ct simply advised a trial before buy
ing You got a man to experiment,
and he came down with run and
broke his leg. How much damages
did you pay?"
s'Woman," he said, after taking
three or four turns across the room,
eve will drop this matter to another
time"
"And you were going to pay $4,000
for receipt to make sparkling cham
payne out of root beer or something,
she continued.
Never! Neverr'
And would have done so had I not
called your attention to the pure food
| law You were surely in the hands OF
| a rascal
II say we will drop the subject"
Eyes, in a moment. Then you were
| going to manufacture imported jams
| from apple cores and peelings. You
! had your money drawn from the bank
when I saved you"
! Mrs. Bowser, am I the head of this
, house?"
"And then a swindler wanted to get
YOU into the fire proof paint business
| He gave his word that nothing painted
with his paint could burn, and you
were satisfied to invest when told
! YOU to try it with a board in the fur
| mace. That board made the best kind
/ of kindling."
Madame. another word and I leave
! the house!" said Mr.. Bowser, as he
started I'D.
member that chap who persuaded you
that starch and claret wine could be
/ made from turnips. You were all ready
| to invest when
| Mr.. BOWSer went down the nail anC
! reached for his hat and passed out
| into the night. He had feeling that
| he had come out second best again
and this was further strengthened By
hearing one female pedestrian say to
| another:
"Yes, he looks sorrowful and heart
| broken, but you needn't pity him. He's
| had a row and walked out of the
| house, and now he's wondering how he
| can walk back again. Copyrighted
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