The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-17

gasped. He flushed RED and he flush
ed white and he flushed everything
I but a bob-tailed flush. He opened
and shut his mouth, but it was ex-
actly 20 seconds before that stentorian
[ shout rang out.
What in thunder and lightning and
/ blazes does this meant
so you are home, eh2" queried
Mrs Bowser, pretending to discover
him for the first time.
Sammy. don't burst a blood YES
sell" cautioned the mother-in-law.
But what is it,
"Oh. nothing much. We we're just
waiting TO have little talk with YOU .
But my dinner-the cook+you
here
Don't get het up about it. Come
| downstairs and things will be ex-
planned"
But 1 say
The mother-in-law took Mr. Bowser
by the arm and walked him down to
the sittingroom. He tried to say
something on the way, but couldn't
manage it. When he had been de
posted in chair the old lady of the
Roman nose and iron jaw observed:
Sammy, YOU are not happy man
Not by a burned sight" answered
| Mr.. Bowser.
Mrs Bowser sells the coal and the
gas to tramps to be mean with you
Il believe she does
"As many as seven clothes-pins,
worth three cents in cash. have been
lost in the backyard within the last
year.
Seven hundred. guess.
The cook is extravagant. and Mrs.
Bowser encourages her in it
I have said so a hundred times"
you can run the house at half the
expense your wife can
Z know I can
about 20 times in the last year you
have threatened to apply for a di-
vorce.''
7 have. and I'm going to do it,"
Yes. you are The first thing in the
morning you hike over and see your
lawyer In fact. I'll hike with you
and see that you don't weaken. Do
you know that Mrs. Bowser is extrav-
agant in the matter of stockings?"
I've told her so a hundred tines
shes had four pairs in the last
year, when she ought to have made two
do her That fact alone ought to Sc
cure you a divorce"
What about dinner?" asked Mr.
Bowser, as he looked around in an
why. there's bread and butter and
some cold potatoes to warm up. Il
told your wife that she ought to see
that you had a good dinner, but she
BY the Jumping Jehosaphat
Softly Sammy; dear" cooed the
mother-in-law. We can get at the
bottom facts here without swearing.
Were YOU aware of the fact that Mrs
Bowser encourages the butcher to
CAM
What kind of talk is thist" he de-
manded as he tumbled to the fact that
he was being jo11ied.
and you don't know that she sells
YOUR old clothes TO get money to go
to moving picture shows?''
I'm going to get dinner somewhere
and then show up at the Gay Old
Boys club" said Mr.. Bowser. as he
rose up.
"Oh, no. Sammy" replied the old
lady. you'll eat dinner here with
US The cook had to go away right
after lunch to attend a funeral. Mrs. +
BOWser could have sweat over the |
range and got up a rip-roaring old din |
ner, but I told her you weren't worth |
the trouble As for the Gay Old Boys, |
sammy
I'm going
Then I shall go with YOU I'm a |
Cay Old Boy myself when I'm away /
from home Yes, we'll go to the club (
and have a screaming old time
time - asked Mr. BoWser. as he stood |
with folded arms.
L just asked myself. Sammy. I felt
that it was time to come. 1 may stay /
four weeks
''And-and you'll try to run the
house all that timee'
Il shall run il, sammy.
And me2 You'll try to run me-"
II shall. Sammy, there's a new deal /
on hand No more banging at the front /
door. No more kicking the gate open.