Found Them Invaluable

"Isuppose typewriters are very coiuinoii now, " said slie musingly as she settled back in her favorite rocking chair after dinuer. "Oh, yes," he said, "they're quite a necessity.iu every lme of business." "You have one?" she asked. " Yes, indeed," he replied as he haatily looked over the evening paper. "I'd feel lost without une." "Lightejis your work, does it?" "Lightens it? Why, it makes it an absolute pleasure. 1 wouldn't be without one for tlie worJd. " "Saves time, too, 1 suppose?" "It makes it pass sorapdily that you hardly notice it. " "How tnucfa does n guod typewriter cost, Joto?" "Oh, not nmt:h." he said absentraindedly. "You can get a ratthug pretty one for $13 or $15 a week." Before he had time to read the fust sentenceof thearticle he had started on he was suddenly jarred into consciousness of the fact that wife was referring to machines, not operators, and that somehow he had rnsde a serioiis take. -