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see reason. This was accomplish ed by a gentle hint that he would be separated from his allowance of $5,000 a'montfi i he didn't be have. , So Walt and his relatives set tled that Walt Would break off with Mrs. Barnes-Creel, and would be a good boy and keep his affinities under cover in the fu ture. When this was settled, Walt went to Mrs. Barnes-Creel's apartments at night to brealche sad news. He did it in a perfectly gentle manly fashion, only MrsBarnes-d Creel ctiuldn t see it She wept at first; then denounced him as a scoundrel, and finished up by plugging Walt two times through the right lung. When the blood from Waifs wounds began messing up the carpets, Mrs. Barnes-Creel, got scared stiff; telephoned for a doc tor and H. de Mumm, andb.it the high places for "London. H. de Mutrim arrived and found brother Walt in a pretty bad way. But, of course; it would never do to have scandal touchingthe fair name of Mumm's, Extra'Dry. So H. had Walt moved to a pri vate hospital, and the next day all the Paris newspapers told about the sad automobile accident in which that foremost citizen, Walter de Mumm, had been bad ly injured. Unfortunately; there's a gang of noisy American newspaper men in Paris, and they clidn't fall for that auto accident stuff at all. tThey breezed around until they found out the truth, and then spread the news broadcast. The de Munn family is hurt and injured today. Also it has locked itself up, and refused to see any thing that remotely looks like a newspaper man especially an American one. SLEEPY WIVES NOTICE! Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 14. To put stop to flood-of protests being received from irate husbands, Municipal Judge Nolan gave sev en conditions -under which a man should get his own breakfast.. Here they are: r : 1. Jf his wife is sick. - 2. When babies re sick ()' 3. When his wife has a hard day's-ironing ahead. v 4. If it's wash Say.- () 5. During liduse ""cleaning. 6. One month -for-the fun of the thing. - - 7. Daily uring'fhe first three' monthsfof marriage. () () Dogs don't count. () Pres'ence of a wash woman lets hubby out. () Remarried widows can not take advantage of this rule. The court recently sentenced a man to get his'own breakfast for a year because, his wife said, she didn't get any pleasure out of life, and she would rather sleep late in the morning than own a brewery. o o " "Whatsis your name?" inquired a lady of her new cook. "Mrs, McCarthy," replied the cook. "Do you expect to be called Mrs. Mc Carthy?" "Oh, no, "ma'am not if you have an alarm clock."