t and a large ambition: the gift was a
cartoonist's facility in line drawing, and the ambition was to be able,
in the dim and distant future, to illustrate Jimaboy's stories.
Lantermann, the _Times_ artist, whose rooms were just across the hall,
had given her a few lessons in caricature and some little gruff,
Teutonic encouragement.

"Time!" she called, tossing the sketch-block over to Jimaboy. It was a
happy thought. On a modern davenport sat two young people, far apart;
the youth twiddling his thumbs in an ecstasy of embarrassment; the
maiden making rabbit's ears with her handkerchief. Jimaboy's note of
appreciation was a guffaw.

"I couldn't rise to the expression on those faces in a hundred years!"
he lamented. "Hear me creak:"

DON'T MARRY

until you have taken the Preparatory Course in the Post-Graduate School
of W. B. Home-Study in the Science of Successful Heart-Throbs. Why earn
only ten kisses a week when one hour a day will qualify you for the
highest positions? Our Collegiate Department confers degree of B. B.;
Post-Graduate Department that of M. W. B. Members of Faculty all
certificated Post-Graduates.

A postal card brings Prospectus and application blank.

Address: The Post-Graduate School of W. B., 506 Hayward Avenue, Cleland,
Ohio.

Isobel applauded loyally. "Why, that doesn't creak a little bit! Try it
again; for the unhappy T. M.'s, this time. Ready? Play!"

Her picture was done while Jimaboy was still nibbling his pen and
scowling over the scratch-pad. It was a drawing-room interior, with the
wife in tears and the husband struggling into his overcoat. To them,
running, an animated United States mail-bag, extending a huge envelope
marked: "From the Post-Graduate School of W. B."

Jimaboy scratched out and rewrote, with the pen-drawing for an
inspiration:

HEARTS DIVIDED
BECOME
HEARTS UNITED

when you have taken a Correspondence Course in Wedded Bliss. A
Scholarship in the Post-Graduate School of W. B. is the most acceptable
wedding gift or Christmas present for your friends. Curriculum includes
Matrimony as a Fine Art, Post-Marriage Courtship, Elementary and
Advanced Studies in Conjugal Harmony, Easy Lessons in the Gentle Craft
of Eating Her Experimental Bread, Practical Analysis of the Club-Habit,
with special course for wives in the Abstract Science of Honeyfugling
Parsimonious Husbands. Diploma qualifies for highest positions. Our Gold
Medalists are never idle.

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