The log cabin Democrat., 1910-01-18
HIS WIFE
LAUGHED

ctOuS, I'm glad or IL. 3e WHAT
mean? Every fireside the cradle of
liberty as the teller says. Then
along comes YOU wife and rocks the
cradle.
NO, sir, I'm a downy bird, I am
and take it from me, this home sweet
nome gig isn't going to cash any pol
Icy slip ever saw. Not until they
do something to give women sense
of humor.
NOW, get this right. They can ap-
preciate a joke. You hear me- Some
of the best laughers in the wide,
wide world right now are wearing
high-heeled shoes and imported hair.
Yes, stree, they can appreciate a
joke. If they can see it they can
That's it. There you have it, son. Ii
they can see it! that's the trouble
They seldom see 1t.
Listen here DID you see her laugh
as she went out? Eth? Well, sir, I
Just told her a joke, regular kind of a
funny joke. Is she laughing at ~
Joke, son? SLs is not Then what
the blazes is she laughing at? You
don't know l don't know, she don't
know Can you beat it? Answer;
No, you cannot beat it.
It's a good joke too. Heard 1t
downtown. Seems one o. the boys
was up in Maine this summer and ju-t
as he was getting over to RaTlesnake
creek he heard terrible swimming
70 NO
shore and there on the other side OF
Rattlesnake creek was a big turtle
crawling away.
"He says the turtle had two rings
on his tail and one button on the end,
and his shell was notified yellow and
red. He says the two rings probably
we're for the turtle to go ahead be-
cause that's what the turtle was do
ing. And when he saw the button on
the end of the tail he knew he'd seen
he turtles finish.
That's some story Eth? But listen
n6re. l got to thinking about that
story and | up and asks him how he
makes it out that turtle could have
"ings and a button on his tail. Rat
tlesnakes are the only critters that
nave them. He said that was easy,
because when he first saw the turtle
on the other side of Rattlesnahe creek
he knew in an instant it was a cross
DO you get that? / guess thet'p
bad. By gum, it cost me a dollar six
ty to find out about that cross, but it
vas worth it. l took a cigar myself,
because l was coming right home and
I didn't want any argument. Here
smoke that when you get outside,
Wife objects to the smell around the
house
We'll, sir, says, says !. Home for
mine, where in the sacred precincts
Of my own vine and fig tree ] says
III hand that one over the plate to
my soft-voiced spouse, says l and it
will tie her up l says, into a shak
ing and complicated tanRle of blithe
some merriment, says /. Likewise
such being the case, | freely opined
that my paths would be in sunny
places and sweet peace would brood
over me, to the third and fourth gen
Grafton thereof. Selah,
so l came home, and. take it from
NE, I gave it out to her in plain
words. No hidden subtIeties, you I'M
derstand, but full of corroborative de-
tail and, believe me, son, with the
bright light of truth and virtue fash
ing from my clear blue eyes.
you never heard me when | was
right in top form, maybe? Well, son.
the way | told her that story was
right. See what l mean? The turtle
wouldn't have had any comeback II
he had heard it himself
"And did she laugh? DID she give
sat imitation of complicated and
,angled merriment? Not sort
Tothing of the kind Nix. She looked
nc square in the face and she said:
Well, what about it?' says she. Go
ahead and tell the joke says she.
"Say, that got me mad. I wouldnf
save minded if she had been kidding
ne, but she wasn't. | was sore al.
over and ! unhitched my righteous in
lignation aad began 70 hand things
out all in a bunch | combed thing
over pretty general one way and an
other until, III give you my word,
couldn't think of anything more to
,ay that | dared to, women being ct
necessarily touchy at times.
you're the limit l says, as q
kind of windup. 4 don't believe you
ever saw a joke in your life, says
and you wouldn't laugh If you did
says.
Henry she says just as serious
! don't know but one real funny JOKE
and I've known that a long time.
.he says, and every once in awhile
laugh myself sick over IT, she says
It's an awfully funny joke she says
and one is enough for any woman
She says. that's respectable she says
"'Wen, for the love of mackerel
nut me wise says ]. No, Henry
she says. you wouldn't like it at all
Ard besides, she says, I don't wan
to h rrt your feelings she says, And