The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-20

gested Mrs. Bowser. ''You order a
$50 suit of clothes and pay g deposit of
half"
81 do
''The suit is finished and sent home
and worn for couple of weeks. Then
someone tells you the coat makes you
look lop-shouldered, and you refuse to
pay the other SO. Am right?"
you are"
who was it that found fault with
the soat?"
Let me see? Let's seeg can't re-
member
"Did the tailor offer to make any
changes?'
but you didn't let him, and are
still wearing the suit'
"But what has all this got to do with
the lawsuit?''
Nothing except to beat your case.
You haven't legal leg to stand on"
What! What! Wasn't I told it was
a botch job?''
Eyes, but you can't remember who
told you. If you could, would he come
into court as your witnesst Even II ne
did that, is he quaIif1ed to Judge? l
myself couldn't take the stand and
swear that the coat was botch-"
ooh, my own wife turns against me,
does she?''
your own wife is looking at the
case in a commonsense way. Law isn't
always common sense, but it may be
in this case. If you had taken the
coat back and the tailor had failed to
make good you'd have had the ad-
vantage"
But he's botched for Others" shout
ed the angry Mr.. Bowser.
''Will they come into court ana
testify to it?"
"And I'm to let villain swindle the
eye-teeth out of me. am 1? Never IN
this world I can win this suit on my
plea to the jury alone. There are
wives who stick to their husbands
when in trouble, but by thunoer you
are not one of them!''
But I am. Mr. Bowser. I'm anx-
ious that you don't get into more
trouble. You speak of a plea to the
Jury. Let me hear what sort OF a
plea you intend to make"
over. but 1 think I'll begin with the
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers"
"Then you won't get two of them
landed before the Judge will land you!
He'll want to know what the Pilgrim
Fathers have to do with coat that
makes you look lop-shouldered
"They came here in search of lib
erty. didn't they?"
''That has nothing to do with the
Second street tailor of today"
well, there's a sacred constitution
of the United States"
had for ten cents a pound. You can
depend upon one as much as the
other
Mr.. Bowser walked to and fro. He
recalled that Columbus discovered
America. but before he could bring
Mrs. Bowser's attention to the fact,
she said:
you will have to wear the coat into
court. Judge and jury will decide
about the lop-shoulder business. II
the tailor said he woulc nave mace
good. your case is lost. Again, the fact
of your wearing the suit every day VIII
tell against you"
IT will ask that jury if it proposes
to indorse villainy in the land"
"And the tailor will sue you 1or
SANDER" Nv
Rowser as he let go of himself and
stood and jumped up and down. MY
own wife-the one above all others
who should stick by me in this Crisis
is on the side of my enenay
"Can't 1 see certain points in this
case and bring them OUT without your
getting angry? This isn't domestic
dispute. It's a case at law
land a botch tailor can win over
me, can he?"
s'I'm afraid So
"And the blood shed at Lexington
and Bunker Hill
"Might as we'll have been vinegar SO
far as it will help you in this case. Inc
Continental army endured great suf-
fering at Valley Forge. but that was
more than hundred years ago. and 1t
won't apply to a lop-shouldered law
suit of today. We took Texas from
Mexico along in the forties of the year
1900, but any reference to it to the
Jury isn't going to win your SUIT
Where you going?"
Mr.. 'Bowser had walked down the
hall and clapped on his hat. He walk
ed out without answering. He hated
to 60 to the family druggist for an
oninion. but his feet insensibly carried
him that way. The druggist read the
summons with various "um" "um's
heard the story of the case, and then
said:
row morning.
What for?"
bolt your breakfast.
''I don't see
"And get down to that tailor's and
settle this case. Man, if it wasn't for
Mrs. Bowser you'd have to hire
three-year-old boy to lead you around
with a string!''- Copyright, 1911, by
Associated Literary Press)