He vants to pe der shturdy oak,

    Und, also, do der glinging.

    Maype, vhen oaks dhey gling some more,

    Und don'd so shturdy peen,

    Der glinging vines dhey haf some shance

    To helb run Life's masheen.

    In helt und sickness, shoy und pain,

    In calm or shtormy veddher,

    'T was beddher dot dhose oaks und vines

    Should alvays gling togeddher.

   Some persons spend their surplus on works of art; some spend it on Italian gardens and pergolas; there are those who sink it in golf, and I have heard of those who expended it on charity.

   None of these forms of getting away with money appeal to Araminta and myself. As soon as it was ascertained that the automobile was practicable and would not cost a king's ransom, I determined to devote my savings to the purchase of one.

   Araminta and I lived in a suburban town; she because she loves Nature and I because I love Araminta. We have been married for five years.

   I am a bank clerk in New York, and morning and night I go through the monotony of railway travel, and for one who is forbidden to use his eyes on the train and who does not play cards it

    is

   monotony, for in the morning my friends are either playing cards or else reading their papers, and one does not like to urge the claims of conversation on one who is deep in politics or the next play of his antagonist; so my getting to business and coming back are in the nature of purgatory. I therefore hailed the automobile as a Heaven-sent means of swift motion with an agreeable companion, and with 

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