Life — September 8, 1910 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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WHY THE MAT WAS NOT DELIVERED ON TIME ndeed. You do interest me. What was it?” ( saw plainly that my girl was fully capable of reasoning in the instance I have mentioned, she merely took tage of the difference of opinion that existed between rents, I determined, therefore, to cut her mother out lations entirely and, in business parlance, open up ntal account with her myself. And so every time ything which interfered with our system, and us of our time or happiness, I entered it up against a book, without in any correcting her, I did not cll her I was doing this; she discovered it, although bject. was never mentioned. I knew the time come when she would expect me to do something for hat I alone could give, and when this time came all I needed to do was to show her the account. The time aise What was the occasion? '* aan “This little trip to Quebec. I made my arrangements to oat so with her mother, leaving her entirely out of my calcula- could ions. When she discovered it she burst into a storm of hard, I then showed her the account and asked her bluntly a of shy T should extend to her any special consideration when ourse, ‘very occasion she had withheld it from me.” he Canadian leaned forward. His face lighted up with nor. He smiled delightfully. “I know now what you are about to say,'’ he whispered. m somewhat acquainted with Americans, and am aware of bit of turning the laugh on themselves. You are about to remark that those ladies who just passed were your wife and daught The American shook his head “You are wrong, my friend"? he replied. I never saw them before. Iam here alone—on my honor. “Then where are your wife and daughter?" This time the American smiled. ‘0 be candid with you,’" he said, “ they decided that they would go to Niagara—because the daughter preferred it.’ T. LL.M. King George's Statue HE proposal, if there really is one, to put back in Bowling Green, New York, the old lead statue of George III. on horseback, that used to stand there, must be damned with no less cruel a condemnation than to call it “ well intended.’” It will be recalled that the statue was pulled down at the open- ing of the Revolution and a good deal of it was cast into bullets, but fragments of it still exist. To restore it would be amusing and historically interesting. But, oh, don’t do it! Poor old King George would have no peace. The veterans of the American Revolution would rise up and write letters to the papers and, led by Thomas Sturgis, Frank Sanborn and Senator What's-His-Name from Idaho, they might even storm the Mayor's office in the city, It is true, we believe, that the Lion and the Unicorn that were torn off Faneuil Hall in Boston in Revolutionary days were put back not long ago, and how Mr. Sanborn endured it we can't imagine, But King George! Oh, no! Let us have peace! comicbooks.com