After dinner stories by famous men : . e. Cease to love you! * growled the man. There you go again. Why, I love you more thanlife itself. Now shut up and let me read thepaper. By Famous INIen 19 ROBERT J. ALEY,president of the Univer-sity of Maine, tells of aprominent attornty, who,years ago, claimed hisresidence in an Iowatown. He, as the onlylegal light for milesaround, was accustomedto arrange the disputesof his neighbours. On one occasion,continues President Alty, he was awakened fromhis peaceful slumbers bya violent knocking at hisfront door. Lazily pull-ing hunself out of bed and putting
After dinner stories by famous men : . e. Cease to love you! * growled the man. There you go again. Why, I love you more thanlife itself. Now shut up and let me read thepaper. By Famous INIen 19 ROBERT J. ALEY,president of the Univer-sity of Maine, tells of aprominent attornty, who,years ago, claimed hisresidence in an Iowatown. He, as the onlylegal light for milesaround, was accustomedto arrange the disputesof his neighbours. On one occasion,continues President Alty, he was awakened fromhis peaceful slumbers bya violent knocking at hisfront door. Lazily pull-ing hunself out of bed and putting his head out ofthe open window he soon discovered that his un-Melcome night visitor was none other than old manJerry McCloud, for whom that very afternoon hehad drawn a will. Well, Jerry, whats the trouble? the lawyerqueried, none too softly. Faith, its th will, replied McCloud. Icouldnt get a wink av sleep a-thinkin av it. The will. reiterated the attorney. Yes, replied McCloud, yeve fixed it so Ivenot left mesilf a stool to sit on!. 20 After Dinner Stories CHAMP CLARK champions equal suffrage asbeing A A 1 -|- in theory, but in jiractice it hasalways reminded him of a devout constituent outin ]\lissouri who once confessed that he and hiswife had agreed to tell each other their faults —to be perfectly frank with each other in everything,as the ideal marriage state demands. Asked by the sympatlietic minority leaderwhether the plan had succeeded or failed, the otherconfided dolefully, Would you believe. Brother Clark, that she —she actually hasnt spoke to me for nearly a month. DOCTOR COOK, the discredited Arctic explorer,tells the following pet story: Sacrifices, said he, are always being , in order to succeed, sacrifice pleasure, theirhonour, their youth. These sacrifices excite no re-mark. But any sacrifice of the stomach arouseswonder and awe. Women have sacrificed, for instance, much toenter society. Ive heard of many of their sacri-fices, and yet theres only o
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