Judge — March 13, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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“Tt Is Different Now” JHOMAS"” said Mrs. Tither- ton to her husband, in the tone of voice that always results from hours of anx- ious thought as to howa wife can safely approach a husband with a request for money, ‘‘I have had letters to-day from Clyde : and from Evelyn, and— and—now, Thomas, don’t go all to pieces, but both are needing a little money. Clyde finds his college and Evelyn finds her board- ing-school to be so much more expensive than we thought they would be. says that there is to be a dance at her school in two weeks, and all of the other girls wi have new gowns for it, and of cour: feels that she must have one, and— know that she took eleven new gowns with her, but they dress a great ‘deal in her school. Then she needs ten dollars for a club of some kind she wants to join, and she says that most of the girls have three times the allowance she has for pin money, and she wants anew set of furs, and all the girls are going on a week-end trip soon, and she needs twenty dollars for that. Then Clyde says that he will have to have twenty- five dollars to pay his entrance fee in- to a club he says it will be helpful for him to join, and he says that he is having to pay thirty dollars more a month for his suite of rooms than he had expected to pay. So many inci- dental expenses that one can’t think of when one sends a boy away to school are always coming up. He wants ten dollars a week added to his weekly allowance. Says he will have to have it to make any kind of a good appear- ance, and". “Look here, Mary, how was it when we went to school at the old academy? Huh? How about our ‘sui and our duds? Huh? Our folks sent us a bar- rel of stuff from the farm every few weeks, and we lived mostly on it. How centsthat term. Your one party and church dress was a flowered delaine that cost about fifty cents a yard, and your one wrap was a red and black plaid shawl, and my ‘top- coat,’ as Clyde would call it, was an old butternut-brown coat that had been “my grandfather's. I wore it when I wasn't wearing a gray shawl. I had one suit, and it was of jeans that my mother had made, and I had to ink my socks where they showed through the holes in my boots, and you wore stockings that you had knit with your own hands. And Clyde wants to go in with a couple of other fellows and get a ‘car.’ What about our ‘car’ when we went away from home to school? Your dad took you sixty miles to the academy in an old buggy, and I walked twenty-five miles to get there, and" ‘*But, Thomas, it is different now.’" “T should twitter! A whole lot different! And, by jacks! if I haven't a mind to shut down hard on the whole business and trot those two spendthrifts home, and— Oh, well, well! How much do they want? me my check book, will you? It's in the right-hand top drawer of my desk. My gout is troubling me so bad I can hardly stand. Clyde wants three hundred and Evelyn two hundred and fifty? Get the check book. Oh—ho! Lawzy me! You bet it’s different now!"" Maz Merryman, Zoological Logic? If a leopard's up against it And gets into a fight And gets the very worst of it, Do you think it would be right To say **he had his spots knocked out" When they were still in sight? His Reason for Thinking So Williamson — What books have helped Hooker most? Henderson—The ones he borrowed from me, I suppose. He never returned them. much spending money did we have? I had sixty cents one term, and I have heard you say that you had twenty Our smart young attache friend starting out for the war the other day. The picture he has just sent us, taken two days after reaching the firing line! THE COMPLETE CAMPAIGNER