The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
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Bowser, but there it isl
Mr.. Bowser had listened and grown
pale. If he had had any hair on his
head it would have been standing up
before she finished. When the end OF
the record came he gasped two OF
three times and exclaimed:
woman, do you know what the re
suit of this will be?"
1.-THE divorce court, of course. I'm
less 1 have your solemn promise to dc
better in future 1 Shall apply for
divorce within two or three days.
"You-you WIFI
Certainly. Things can't go on this
way"
But it's for me to get divorced"
Make no mistake, Mr.. BOwSer. No
wife could have a better case than l
have got. We will now mention a few
little things outside the record
But I forbid you'll he shouted. Il
don't understand this thing at all. 1t (
for me to talk to you, and by the great
horn spoon I'm going to do it! 1 said"
when have finished you can state
your case, but not until Mr.. Bowser
was told that you were dickerinG
with a farmer for dozen hens. Thai
dicker is off. won't have hen about
the llace.'
"You--you wOn't?"
mo, sir, and that's fiat. I'll wiring
the neck of every one you bring here
There was a chap around here this
forenoon who said you talked of buy
ing his secondhand auto
yes, and
And YOU won't buy it! There was
also a man who said you were COINS
to offer a prize to any one climbing
Mt Mckinley and naming one of the
peaks after you"
III give $500!' he defiantly answer
ed.
You won't give Is cents for any such
purpose You'll give me S. for hosiery
and stop right there. The world can
get along without d Bowser Peak.
Mr.. Bowser's face seemed to work
by machinery. 1t went white and it
went red and it went green. Sometimes
his eyes glared, and sometimes there
was a look of apprehension in them.
1t was plain that he could not max
out whether he was afoot or on horse
back Mrs. Bowser spoke quietly, but
firmly and looked full at him as she
went on:
Il want no more nonsense out OF
you about the North Pole, the South
Pole, or any other old Pole. It's ali
bluff and time wasted. You talk OF
making a lecture tour. They'd run YOU
off the stage in two evenings!
''They-they-!"
You talk of writing play or 60
ing on the stage yourself. You couldn
write 10 lines of a play, and as for
acting you could never learn how tc
back out of a barn door without fall
ing over the haymow 1t may hurt
YOUR feelings to hear this, but you'o
better be hurt than be made a fooi
Of
rs she talking to me?' whispered
Mr.. Bowser to himself
You want to go up in balloon and
want to fly You want to run for gov
ernor, and you want to invent new
hair-dye. Drop them. Keep right down
On the ground and keep your shirt on.
81 won't listen another moment,
shouted the victim as he rose up to
leave the house.
''Sit down, sir. You will listen to my
last word. was going to say that next
time you kicked about the size of the
gas bill you'll hear something drop. I've
heard enough on that subject"
Mr.. Bowser grOaned.
And you let up on raising rows over
clothespin found in the grass, or a
window pane that somebody has brok-
en-"
Mr.. Bowser seemed in pain.
You go and order shirts and collars
without saying word to me and then
sponsible. No more of that. or I'll pitch
them all out of the back window"
Mr. Bowser gasped for breath.
And when you use saw or hammer
around the house. remember where you
lay them down, and don't go shouting
around that 1 must have swallowed
them You've also got a little way of
yelling about my observation-disclosures to-
wards tramps. Cut that out. It makes
me tired"
Mr.. Bowser closed his eyes. and his
head seemed to go round and round.