The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-17

wanted to get rid OF your mother l
should have to take her by the heels
and hold her head under water
But where are you going to get
your rarified ARR"
Just now, to give the matter a thor
ough test. have secured some from
from the top Of Mt. Mckinley brought
down"
And how are you going to test it?"
"Ah-ahi Interested, are you? Why, 1
am I here this morning instead of be-
ing at the office? To make the test.
am sure it will be successful, but I
must convince the public, I shall buck
lie bag around me and leap into the
river. The public will expect to see
me go to the bottom like a grindstone,
but I shall float away like a duck. I
have calculated things to the fraction
of an ounce"
But 1 wish you would leave the
hundred dollars for me before you
Mrs. Bowser, your sentiments don't
| do you credit. On the contrary, 1
| should say they come under the head
of reprehensible. We will let that
ready to hand me $5,000.000 the mo-
ment success is assured. 1t will be
assured by l o'clock. At IL 1 shall
arrive home with certified check in
| shopping and spend a thousand dol
lars. That's the program
''Tf you could spare me the hundred
now she appealed.
woman, cease to harp. Your con-
duct is strange, indeed. I am on the
eve of accomplishing the greatest
thing on earth, and yet you persist
emily seek to rattle me. Is that a
wifely part? When lay a check for
$5,00O,O00 in. your lap what are you
| going to say for yourself7"
but you may not do it,"
I'm other words. you think 1 may
/ Pai 1I,or1 n
Bowser-knows what he is about. You
look upon this thing a pipe dream.
I suppose I ought to be very angry,
but all inventors have had to meet
ed his steamboat his wife called him
| fool. We will let it go, however. Later
on you will doubtless render me a
full apology. 1 must now be off"
| 81 don't say you are a fool, Mr..
Bowser'' she said. "only-only, I
| wish you would give it up
Heavens, but hearken to the wom-
anl''
st think you are deceived in it."
| '-Bowser deceived-Bowser!"
you may not float"
why. not say that the sun may drop
voive? Why not say that I'm as crazy
| as a loon and should be locked up? Mrs.
6ssS s nof ~ yo1d v dm
Tha. discussion will now cIose and I will
Mr.. Bowser had bought hot-water bag
for his experiment. A drug store man had
talked about rarified air. and then put a
bicycle pump at work. 1t was ready for
man was to commit suicide on account
had gathered The inflated bag had been
buek1ed on under his clothing and his
rotundity gave rise to such remarks as:
ON, what ay-window he'd make"
And he wanted to be 1oved!
IF he's goin to die all over 1t will take
Mr.. Bowser was pale. but determined
j The dies was cast and he didn't pro-
The crowd didn't understand what was
The water looked deep and the river
wide, and after all Mrs Bowser was a
pretty good WIFE,
could hear men around him whispering:
Hes a new kind of submarinen
Hes a hippopotamus!'
He's a Hamilton and he's going to
fly under waterv
- "M de e. he's .sgg Gin' down to the bottom
It was the fatal moment. Mr.. Bowse,
poised and sprang. He went for the bot
ana when next he became conscious OF
earthly things he was on dray and be
ing carried home. 1t was like dream
when Sdv ne the neI house WAS r ra
1.-The old boy is game. He stayed right
down on the bottom for ten minutes. Oh
reis of water and won't want another
And half an hour later. when the life
bag man had regained his senses an6
Bowser gently replied:
Don't worry. You fell off the roof o
1 You'll 'ii be singing around within an hour
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