The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-04


thought But Aunt Caroline kept on in
her little corner, gazing soulfully upon the
plates.
Young Mrs. Jimmy Barnes was washing
pots and pans in the little kitchen
George dear, George dear" .
she exclaimed in shril soprano,
'Woald you kaou the TRUTH
George dear, George dear,
Ba-a-a-bys got tooth.
Get up, run and light the f -er,
Turn the gas up high and high er,
Go and tell your Aunt Mari er
Baby's got TOOTH
elm" she called out beseechingly, "70iH
you please keep your eye on that KIDD He's
got one of those plates"
Jimmy Barnes was seated in the corner of
small bedroom, studying small model
not of mankind or womankind-but of
smoke consumer Jimmy Barnes was an
inventor and a consulting engineer-the
latter only when anybody consulted him.
He had been always the former; the IN
completed smoke consumer had stuck to
him closer than brother.
Dash !. crash smash! Such
were the sounds borne in upon the ear of
young Mrs Barnes She didn't make
them. Her husband didn't make them.
There was only one personality in the house
hold to account for-the Kid Mrs. Jimmy
Barnes rushed, with dripping hands, from
the kitchen into the dining-room. There
sat the Kid, his face plastered with cream of
oats, hissmile extending from ear to ear, his
chuckle rapture of glee.
"Gee," howled the Kid, cit bwokel"
Wilhelmina Barnes wrung her dripping
hands. Jimmy" she exclaimed sharply,
sim. Another one of Aunt Caroline's
plates. Gone to the dogs" No answer.
Jim" she screamed, "Jin! Are you dead7
Jiml"
There was a scramblng noise from the
bedroom, and Jimmy Barnes rushed in, his
hair tousled, but his eyes cleaning.
"Mina Nina" he cried, his face
aglow, eve got it. I've got it. The
blamed thing is done"
WHAT" she queried
"The consumer" he replied He
dragged her to chair, and pushed the chair
and her up to the dining table, drew chair
up for himself, and pulled the Kids chair
} around, too, so that he could see. "Now
: look" he commanded, Gas you know, it
was the draught that troubled me, nothing
but the draught. Now watch" He struck
a match and held it underneath. 1t burned
without enthusiasm Suddenly he switched
a movable portion of the model sharply to
the left, and the fame darted swiftly up into
,, the tube as though endowed with prone.
thean fire. Mrs. Jimmy Barnes opened
wide her eyes. Jimmy Barnes smote The
table
+. The smoke consumer IS completed" b,
0 exclaimed, the only smoke consumer in TIT
: world that's worthy of the name"
5 g Jim, returned his young wife, drawing
!! his face to hers, "the Barnes Smoke Con
y sumner. Think Of il. "
e Gimme match 1 wanth a match,
Y exclaimed the Kid, which brought then
: back to earth. Wilhelmina shook her head
S "Look at the plate" she repeated, pointing
S to the fragments on the floor, zone Of Aun
e Caroline's plates"
Il For every birth, death" returned he
r husband. "At the instant that the smok
= consumer enters the arena Of events, one c
e Aunt Caroline's plates leaves it. E.
/ how many of Aunt Caroline's plates hav
n we left7"
! Wihelnina sighed. "Three," she ar
n swered family, " three-for posterity."
"Posterity got its hands on nine of 'el
lie all OK" returned Jimmy. cit was a sol
IS mistake, sort of one, to fee
n 'em to Billy the Kid, wasn't it?"
e, Wilhelmina gulped and nodded. "Wh;
could we dor" she answered. eve had I
others, and we couldn't feed him off Il
a. tins"
E Jim sighed. "Wen," he oonoede
De "Aunt Caroine's wedding present has di
at appeared almost as fast as Uncle Bill's fl
hundred plunks did, after all. Billy Il
IL Kid knocked the spots out of that FIVE hu
r dred, and now he's doing his best for Au
Caroline. It's good thing she's gone ba
N, to England, never to return. Otherwis
sc she'd go to Bloomingdale. ;"
Is "Or to Greenwood, sighed Nina, if S
OF knew about the plates"
"Of course" conceded Jim, "we oouldl
feed him off TN. But we might have US
Dr. the washbowl from our toilet set .
re- something"
e's "But, " she answered, "he'd have brok
EN- that He breaks everything he gets his han
i'd on. And now, we've only got three pla
in left +. three In the whole house
am and they're Aunt Carolines. i. {. Oh
nd we could only get on or feet, just once.