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clean. She undertook Monday morning: to clean a little soot from around a flue in the kitchen. (It’s a sad, sad story.) The inevitable happened. Down came the pipe. The part of the greasy soot that didn’t land on the dear lady’s head distributed itself very evenly over the rest of the kitchen and impartially over most of the rest of the house.
The damage to the kitchen can be remjedied. Eventually the rest of the house can be restored to cleanliness. After several good; scrubbings the lady’s coiffure may lose its grease and soot. But— according to the lady’s husband (who left home as fast as he could right after the accident occurred) —it will require the soothing pas. sage of much time to calm the dear lady’s temper. However it is doubted if ever again in her lifetime will she be able to match the language she thought at the moment and for several days thereafter.
“It ain’t funny McGee!’’
o O obeen
married ever thirty J*ears,” says Mr. H—, “and I’ve announced far and wide that I’ve always worn the pants of my family. Yes, sir, I’m the boss at my house. I learned early in my matrimonial career how to have the Anal word in any argument. I’ll be glad to pass the formula along to any man: the last word in any argument with a woman is ‘Yes, ma’am,” and that settles it!”
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