Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-21
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PUBLISHED AT 155 BROAD STREET, BY
j. MADISON DRAKE. ~

PUBLISHED AT 155 BROAD STREET, BY
j. MADISON DRAKE. -,
DANGER on ENVELOPES MARKED
t' gro lsE IsETuiNED.''
We cosy the following from the Gin
oianati Times: 1s Bis is
IF not called for within ten. days,
return to-"
Such is the i" legend" on the bust
ness envelopes at present, but they are
not adapted to all kinds of business.
For instance, If a married man is writ
ing in clandestine manner to another
woman than his wife, as he has no
business to do, then il is little danger
Gus to use such an envelope, as it may
like curses. and chickens, g come home
to roost. Such was the case
with q certain individual of this city
not long ago. He had q wife who was
not altogether free from jealousy, and
who, on several occasions had seen and
heard enough to fan the Jealous spark
in her disposition into quite a lively
fame. She received anonymous warn
ing not long ago to the effect that her
husband was sustaining relations ofun-
due intimacy with q young and dash
ing widow in neighboring town. She
did not delay charging her lord with
Inconsistency and reckless disregard OF
the VOWS made in her marriage. He
resented the imputation with a virtu-
Gus indignation and a scorn that went
far toward convincing her that she had
been maliciously deceived by the an
ongmous informer. Weekspassed away
aud the wife, whose heart had been
lulled into feeling of domestic securi-
ty, had almost forgotten the incident
that had furnished her so much uneasi-
ness.
But an incident interposed to verify
all her former suspicious, and transform
ed corroding doubts into established
and despairing facts. During her hus-
bands absence from home, among 9th
er letters brought to the house was one
that was marked returned" It was
directed in her husbands own hand to
q woman, and that woman-oh jeal-
qusy and rage-the gay and dashing
widow. II is almost needless that she
hesitated not moment to tear off the
envelope and read the letter. The con-
tents established her husbands false
hood and infidelity beyond doubt. She
read it in his own hand writing which
was unmistakable, the most passionate
declarations of love for the woman ad-
dressed, followed by appeals to elope
with him, "leaVing that old hen, my
wife, (that's the way he wrote, the
brute j to scratch. for herself" The
| wife might have forgiven his writing a
love letter to another woman on his ex-
hibiting due repentance, and promis-
ing not to do it again, but to be stig
| hnatized by him as an 6 old hen" was
more than she could forgive or endure,
and she has taken the initiatory steps
towards divorces r. ail /
The hueband, meanwhile, is cursing
his own stupidity. He had lot of en-
7elopes with the printed words on one
end :-fe IF not called for within ten days
to be returned to- -" Some OF
them had the blank filed out with his
rown name, and through some strange,
but entirely iustifiablo fatality, he got
hold of one of these envelopes and used
it to enfold the passionate nissive his
mature pen had traced to his inamora.
tn. Tho widow being away from home
until the ten days grace had expired,
the postmaster, like q prompt business
man rs he is, returned the letter to the
writer's address, as people take pills,
" according to directions on the wrap
per-" with the above result! Tt proved
bitter pill for the inconstant Benedict
Ito swallow. He, had endeayored to
make it up with hisfwife, and induce
her to Withdraw the suit for divorce,
but she avows she will never again live
with man who, in q, letter to q secret
flame, calls his wifean cold hen" So
the end is not yet.