The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28

and I kicked over chairs and said rd
get a divorce, and you-you-''
.'Oh. I've forgotten she laughed.
DO you think wen be ready TO start
:.of course, but want to talk about
that game Of euchre. even tried 70
make you believe that an ace would
take the Joker. Ha, ha. In! AZ look
back and remember how mean I was
chair and fen me to the moor. It would
have served me just right. 10 It any
| wonder that when I think Of these
things call you an angel?"
You are . dear. good man. and lets
talk Of the wardrobe am to get. II
have to have four or five dresses
made"
And about our old love letters" he
interrupted as he began to walk about.
wrote a heap Of silly nonsense. but on
two or three occasions when You have
said did I got mad and raised q row.
Yes. sir. I remember OF one letter In
which I said I had kissed the tracks
you left in cranberry swamp. ana yet
when you told me of 1t howled about
divorce. My dear angel. can you ever
pardon me?'
"Of course. Won't you tell me how
long 1t takes to 60 to Frisco?
About five days. think. And
there's another thing I want to refer
to. One day I came home and found
you on the lounge with q sick head
ache. You tried to get up and web
come me. but you could not. You
were dreadfuIly sick. but did I pity
Did 1 order you tea and toast and sit
beside you as a decent husband
lshould? No! 1 brutally told you that
tany lady who would walk around the
block barefooted ought to have seven
teen sick headaches. and I left you to
nf M hn, NrnA
on to the club. Mrs. Bowser, can
I Iyou-will you-ha! what's that"
: Mr.. Bowser stood stiffly erect in
the middle of the room and pointed to
. one Of the back windows. The cat
/ stood beside him and looked in the
same direction.
Yes. the glass is cracked" said
Mrs. Bowser. "A boy threw a stone
from the alley"
Cracked! Ruined! Destroyed
hoarsely whispered Mr.. Bowser. with
his finger still pointing. And this il
the way you run my house! This 10
the way my wife looks after my in
terests!''
But boy threw a stone" she pro-
tested.
"A boy! A stone! And you were
Yes; but how could help lit"
How do 1 help It? Are stones
thrown when I am here? Fifty dol
lars worth Of glass ruined through
your want Of care! It's no use-no
use!'
That pane only cost ~ cents, and
| say that / can't stand in the alley
and prevent boys from throwing"
| Mrs. Bowser. we need not discuss
the matter further" he said, as he
turned awav. II came here with q
heart full OF love and kindness to finu
my home scene Of ruin and desola-
! ton. This ends our going west"
But you won't give up the trip be-
cause boy cracked q pane of glass,
, will your"
. Il will. The trip Is on! There will
: be no Frisco for u.s. 1t is not the
broken glass I look at. but the prtn-
ciple of the thing. AS a wife and
.. housekeeper you are a nat failure.
, For anything you might do to prevent,
. this house could be torn down and
: carted off by hoodlums!'
But how foolish OF"
That will do. woman-that will do.
l have given you trial after trial. and
it has always resulted the same way
ruin and desolation. have no
doubt that the back fence il broknn
down, the woodshed carried on M
most OF the foundations Of the nous
removed. Our money will be needed
right here for repairs / am nov 10
ing for a little stroll, and should any
one call and ask for me you can say
may not be at home until noon to-
morrow"
But how can you blame me,"
Woman, the subject II closed,
Good evening to you-eood eyenine!'
|-(Copyright. 1914, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)