The Washington times., 1911-01-13
Andrew and Imogene
BY Roe Fulkerson.

6 JoShoI anu SlpperS, then
i picking up the coat he had been
wearing all day, she remarked;
Andrew, what on earth have Won in
your pockets? 1 never knew your coat
to weigh so much"
well, guess the real weight comes
from the horseshoe" he replied "rba
wishbone don't weigh much, or the
small vial of graveyard sand, nor IL
there much heft to the four-Ieafed cIov-
er; as to that rabbit foot it's more to
he remarked for its odor than for tho
number OF ounces it will pull, and that
lucky penny of mine don't add much
Yes, 1t must be the horseshoe"
You don't mean to tell me you are
carrying all that stuff in your pockets?'
You are right. didn't mean to tell
you, but it's all there"
She tested the weight of the coat
again by raising and lowering It.
That sounds like the outfit OF a
Foggy Bottom voodoo doctor. What
on earth are you going to do with
them?"
DO with them?" he inorir.d tnd,,-
nantiy' Why I've done 1t! Have you no
regard Tor the life Of the man you
promised to love, honor, and bullyrag
all your life? have been down through
the busy marts Of trade and F. street ALI
day and am home alivsr
well, what Of it? You've done the
same thing every day for twenty wears.
YES but today Is Friday. the
thirteenth
nonsense. she said. You don't
mean to tell me that you are beginning
to believe in luck and signs?"
1 certainly do" said Andrew ct be-
lieve it's dead bad luck to play poker in
house where the host sets Won in
front of a pier glass
believe when woman begins to
cry it's sign that her husband will
shortly be money out of pocket.
l believe it's bad luck for Cuno
Hudolphs salary raise, when a citizens
meeting stops Charlie Lancaster in one
OF those endurance test speeches.
L believe when a bicycle COD tags on
to the smelly end Of an automobile it's
sign the owner is going to see Judge
Mullowny.
Il think it's bad luck for a German
TO run against an Irishman for a Cham
Der of Commerce office.
believe that to see a man of limited
cubic tankage go into that New Orleans
headquarters in the Ebbitt House is a
sign that some taxicab company is 20
ing to get job taking him home.
Il think it's bad luck to catch a red
headed girl under the mistletoe when
your wife is in the next room and YOU
don't know it.
L believe that when you see a pretty
girl come into your door smiling with
a bunch Of tickets in her hand it's n
sign that you are going to hesr some
musical prodigy play Come eus IN the
Garlic, Maud on the flute.
Il believe when two United States
Senators fight for who has the floor, It's
a sign that Lorimer is going to get his
whitewash cracked
Il believe that when you hear a sound
in the house next door like feeding
broken queensware into a stone crusheT
it's sign your neighbor is chiding his
wife and you better shtnny on your
own side
Il believe Imogene interrupted
him.
Now, II you have finished with ysur
confession Of faith-with all your I be-
ieves,' 1 want to tell you that believe
that when a man tries to absolutely
brown his wife's thinking apparatus
with a food Of words, as you are now
doing, he is trying to conceal something
from her.
Il believe that it's wrong for any
woman to go through her husbands
pockets when he is not looking, but I
believe that when she is in front OF him
and suspects all sorts of things about
what he has in his pockets the best
way to end the suspense is to look
She set her jaws together and sffsved
her hand into the pocket where a sus.
oicious looking package bulged, and
pulled forth a white-wrapped box tied
with gilt string. A look of embarrass-
nent came over her face. Andrew re-
marked:
II believe that it's bad luck to buy
Iour wife chocolate almonds on Friday
he thirteenth, for you are liable 70
forget to give them to her at the dinner
table"
To which Imogene added, And I 49,
Seve that it's wrong for any woman to
De suspicious Of her husband, for his
equally embarrassing to have your
worst fears confirmed or to fHd that
you have accused him wrongfullS s.
though the latter happens about a.
rarely as Friday falls on the thir-
.eenth."