His Reason

"Why is it," they asked him, "that yon prefer gas to electric light?" "In the case of electric light." he said, looking at them in astonishinent. "it can usually be controlled by means of a button or a spring on the wall within easy reach." They admitted that he spoke truly. "That being so, " he went on, "if you had ever stood over a small bnt pretty youug woman who with npturned and anxious face was striving to reach the chandelier to light the gas you liever would have to ask me the nuestion you have seeu fit to put. " -