Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1913 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

by HENRY HOWLAND

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Montmorency Mlggsworth loved Lucretia Ann A&a.lr, Lover her with the love of twenty-four. Loved the very hairpins that were fastened In her hair. Loved the plaits and puffs and rat she wore. Loved the sky because she saw it. Loved the air because she breathed It,; Loved her as he fancied man had never! loved before. Montmorency Mlggsworth loved the llttly yellow bird That the maiden fed from day to day,. Loved the brindle kitten that lay In h«r> lap and purred, f . I-oved the wads of gum she tossedi away, Loved the chair that she sat In, Loved the tub that she bathed In, ( Loved her so he hardly had the timet to earn his pay. Montmorency Mlggsworth loved the shoeaj upon her feet, Loved the little mole upon her cheek; Loved her so he gladly paid for thing*) she liked to eat, Went to see her seven nights a week; j Loved the fillings In her molars. Loved the charcoal on her eyebrows. Loved so love became the only word h#t cared to speak. Montmorency Mlggsworth lose the job hej had possessed, Lost It when he had himself to blame; Then Lucretla scorned him, and, dlscour-t aged and oppressed, What he did was really a shame— Thought that life was not worth living, Loathed the world and longed to leave* ' It. But the world went swinging on Its orbitj just the same.