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DNE ON BOWSER. .K-. ' Lv " ? i He Tries to Show His Sympathy For the Poor Cook. BUT GETS IN VERY DUTCH. g; l: ' After Reproaching His Spouse For III Treating the Servant She Returns and Makes Things Warm For Him. A One Legged Man is the Goat. By M. QUAD. fCopyright, 1913, by Associated Literary V Press. J A ffEX Mr. Bowser left the |iA/ office at his usual evening V W hour he bad a mental picture of a happy home There would be a warm house There would be the cat to pur him | * welcome. , There would be Mrs. Bowser to bullThere would be the cook singing in the kitchen. There would be beefsteak tnnotbered with onions. There would be a feeling that he bossed everything, even to the cricket on the hearth. It was a pleasant picture, and his tfelk>w passengers on the car saw him ?mile now and then once he hugged it to (lis tfesoin. He iuistened his steps as he left the car. Yes. Mrs. Bowser was at the door to meet trim, but she had on a cook's apron and looked flurried. "What in thunder is it?" he demanded as tie pointed. "Oh. this Is a little picnic." she laughingly replied. "You can sit right down, ami i hojie you will And your dinner all rig|it.""But where is the cook?" he asked. "After you left this morning she gave sme some talk that 1 couldn't stand. ?ud so 1 told her to go. 1 shall get another tomorrow. ail right." ' Mr. Bowser's face assumed a very aserious expression as he fell silent. - Wrs. Bowser chattered away and tried "1 VE COME FOK MV MOSEY." to thaw him out. but he answered only In mono*? I fa hies. It was the best din- ! V" Uer put before him in a month. Out he ; T.<ate wry spanujrty and s<?>ti Jeft the.! " table. An hour later, when she had j / cleared the table aial put everything | to rijrhts. she wen; upstairs. t<?- find j him paeiujr to and fr?> and the thunder ! ready tt? rt-verliernie. ' .Mrs. Iiowscr." lie bewail as he halt- | ed before her. "L understand that the ! cook has left?" "Yes" | "She practically thrown into the j ' Street. I ] resume?" "She w-s only a (tout half an hour j packing up " The Cook Leaves. "I was talking with her in the kitch- j en last iu :lit. and s!m had no eause for j complaint ' She seemed as settled as if she in feudist to remain here for j years. No sooner do 1 leave the house j l?{.. mnrninir tli-itl Vi?ll vi;IV <l ItHPT llTlll? ! lUlil uiwiuill,* .... r~ , to aggravate her The worm turns at last, and then yon unfeelingly tell her that she can pack up and go Ton are a woman without a heart. If 1 was a j ?ervant girl I'd see you starve before I'd work for you!" "You know nothing about the matter," replied Mrs Bowser as she pick- j ed up the evening paper. *Oh. I don't, eh? Then I wish for J Information. Madam, will you have | the kin<biess to put down that paper j and talk to nie? We have a cook in j onr kitchen. She is a poor. lonely I jjJrli She is trying her best to please j , *1)41 get ;uong. sne came nere unoer j the Idea that you were human. She j bas been here three months. "During that rime have you ever ^at down with her and asked her if she bad a Kick mother or a crippled father or a Wind brother?" "No, 1 have not" - "She looks like a married woman. She looks like a woman with a great j sorrow. Have you ever asked her if j she has lost a child, if her husband is { sleeping 'neath the sod? Have you . asked for her confidence, offered to bear a part of her burdens? When she : bas gone up to her lonely room at night have you followed and sought to cheer her drooping spirits?extended the motherly advice and sympathy she jwas longing for? Have yon ever tried to win her confidence?to talk to her ag a sister?" j Mr. B. Reproaches. ''I don't remember to have done so. Sne was out every mgut as soon as ner. work was done and didn't get in till near midnight." "But did you make it your businea* ~V ? i........ - - jn:: V >?.:T . -fr,? Ia8?eife ? to find out whether she was out to a dance or to a prayer meeting? Have you ever advised and aduiouisliod'; As a matter of fact, have you cared two cents w hether she went to the dogs or not?" "I told you that she said something that I didn't tike and ! told her she could go." replied Mrs. Bowser. "1 understand. You said something to humiliate aud grind her dowu. aud she resented it. Poor Anna! When 1 liave a case of it right under my own roof, can I wonder that this country is on the Threshold of a social revolution? Last evening when you were over to Green's 1 thought the poor girl would be lonesome, and I went dowD to the kitchen to speak a few kind words to her" "Yes: she said you came down," replied Mrs. Bowser with a smile. "I asked her after her health, after her relatives, of her hopes of the future. 1 gave her to understand that while accident made me her employer i hsid thoughts bevond Daring her ev ery mouth." "Yes; she said she bad thoughts." "Then she must have appreciated what 1 said. I go down into the kitchen to let a girl know that I regard her as a human being, and a few hours later you order her out of the house like a dog. Mrs. Bowser, there has got to be a change in your treatment of our hired help or I shall run the bouse myself. If 1 knew where Anna had gone 1 would follow her and beg pardou on your account." "You won t have to follow her. Mr Rnwspr We owe her for half a week. and as 1 didn't have the change she is j to couie lor it this evening. 1 think that's her ringing the basement bell now. Will ,vou go down and pay her and extend your sympathies? If you can get her to return 1 shall have no objections." "if the very soul has not been ground out of her she will be here to cook our breakfast iu rhe morning." observed .Mr. Bowser as be went downstairs to answer the bell. She Returns. It was poor Anna. She bad a defiant look on her face as he opened the door. She also inquired for Mrs Bowser. . "1 will attend to the matter, if you please." replied Mr. Bowser. "We were just discussing your case. I told Mrs. Bowser that she had no heart" "I've come for my money," was the sriff reply.' "And you shall have it and welcome, my dear girl. Out 1 should like to know why tuy wife tiuug you into the street at a moment's notice. Had I been at bome""Sbe gave me all the time I wanted." interrupted Anna, who didn't bear herself at all like a "flung" woman. "But she claims that there were some words.., I suppose her utter lack of sympathy irritated yon to the point where you were forced to say some thin?:." "Yes. sir. Hasn't she told yon what it was?" "Not a word. On the contrary, she has refused to tell' me. realizing, as she does, that she was in the wrong. When you rang the bell 1 told her that i should ask yon to come back." "Not whiie you are in the house, sir!" "But?but"? "Some girl will pull the rest of your hair out!" "What? What's that? You say you won't come back?" "Not while yon are in the house to henhnssy around, sir! I told .Mrs Bowser that you were down in the kitchen last evening gabbing to me and that two or three times you want ed to put your arm around me. Oh you needn't bristle up over it! Every rrirl has ouit this place on your ac count. If von had tried to kiss me last night I should have scalded you. When I told Mrs. Bowser about it she said I'd better go 1 haven't a word of fault to find with her." Merely Sympathy. "You?yon know what you are talkin? alKv.it. do you?" asked Mr. Bowser as Iiis face grew white. "1 do. sir." "And instead of realizing that I was down there to show my sympathy for you"? "You are a sly old fox. sir?very sly Give me my money and let me so and fell Mrs Bowser I hope she'll get a good girl at once, though you will drive her away in a month!" Mi Bowser handed over the money wifhov another word He knew that Mrs 1' vser was standing at the head of the stairs and drinking in every word, and how lie was going to square himself was a puzzle. He stood in thought for a couple of minutes and then ascended the stairs and went down the hall for his hat. "Going out. dear?" was asked He didn't answer. He opened the front door and passed out with a vol en no raging within him. On the opposite side of the street was a wooden legged man stumping along with a basket on his arm. Mr. Bowser uttered a long drawn warwhoop and started for him. and from the front window Mrs Bowser saw the poor cripple trying to get around the corner and heard his shouts of terror and alarm as the holocaust bore down upon him. Poser For the Preacher. 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