The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
BOWsER DOES TT.
Always Wanted to Be Hero, and the
Chance Comes.


and newspaper the other evening af-
ter dinner Mr.. Bowser was restless and
uneasy. He paced the floor back and
forth until Mrs. Bowser felt compelled
to say:
evening. Have you got govt in one of
your toes again ?''
"Gout? Gout?" he repeated as he
turned on her woman, haven't you
got a spark of sentiment in your soul?"
ST hope I have"
mrhen don't drag in such a thing as
"But govt is complaint, isn't it?"
For vulgar people-yes."
"Well, then. has your lumbago re-
turned?"
you want to drive me out of the house
Do you think I stand here thinking OF
such things as govt and lumbago?
Here I am. But what's the use?
You cannot understand my feelings. If
| wives could only understand their hus-
bands better what world this would
bel"
''T'n try to understand you IL you'll
| be a little patient with me-" replied
Mrs. Bowser. You were limping a
up, and I surely thought you had a
touch of the govt. Forgive me and
| tell me what's the matter"
Mr.. Bowser took seven turns across
the room and then said:
| Hasn't it ever occurred to you that
| had an ambition to be somebody
to rise above the mediocre-to attain
| heights?"
ssWhy, you are a great man. aren't
your"
but 1 have not cached the goal as yet.
I have been thinking of it all day. l
am dissatisfied with myself. I find /
have accomplished too little. Yes, as
Bowser, have a certain greatness, but
that doesn't satisfy me There are
DO YOU want to be governor of the
slater
swered as he swelled out his chest and
looked down on her in patronizine
way.
/ president, them"
eff 1 am ever called to take the
nomination I shall be there, but the
people want politicians. No. I must
be great in some other direction.
| should now be on my way to greatness
but for you
.'why. Mr.. Bowser. what have done
to stop you?"
i Mrs. Bowser, there is a mountain
in Alaska named Mt Mckinley. DR.
Cook claimed to have found it. 9th
and is a matter to interest the whole
world 1 wanted to set out three
months ago and climb to the highes
! pinnacle and decide the matter fol
once and all, but you discouraged
me-
ST told you that your legs were TOT
} short to wade through ten feet O.
snow, and believe they are. Besides
being bald headed, how were you t
keep your poll from freezing solid
How would I have felt to have hat
my dear husband return to me with
frozen head on his shoulders hea'
that could never be thawed out again!'
BLAST the head, if I could have go
+. there, and I know I could have don
the trick. Not one encouraging wor'
from you, however. On the contrary
1 nothing but discouragements.
'Then what you are signing for an
+, aspiring to be is a hero of some sort?
:. asked Mrs. Bowser after a long silence
E Eyes, that's about it, but where
my chance? 1 am married. 1 hav
squatted down like an old setting heT
go and come like an old goat
eat and sleep. BY thender, woman,
makes me tiredi"
}. but if you were divorced would 20
v stand any better chances? If 70
a think so you can file a bill any da.
q You just put it in the bill that hav
: no sentiment, and that I didn't wal
:. you to go climbing mountains. and
O viii be all right
el ST wanted to 20 to the Sanish war,