The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-26

The most difficult thing to reach 10 .
wonan's pocket. This is especially the
case if the dress is hung up in q closet,
and the man is IN hurry. We think We
are safe in saying that he always is in .
hurry on such an occasion. The owner
OF the dress is in the sitting room serenely
engrossed in book. Having told him
that the article which he is in quest of is
in her dress pocket in the closet she has
discharged her whole duty in the matter,
and can afford to feel serene, He goes ct
the task with dim consciousness that he
has been there before, but SAYS nothing.
On opening the closet door and finding
himself confronted with q number III
dresses, all turned inside out, and pre.
senting most formidable front, he has
tens back to ask (which dressf' and be-
ing told the brown one, and also asked if
she has 50 many dresses that there need be
any great effort to find the right one, he
returns to the closet with a1scrity, and
soon has his hands on the brown dress.
1t is inside out like the rest-a fact he
does not notice, however, until he has
made several Intellectual. attempts to get
his hand into it. Then he turns it around
very carefully and passes over the pocket
several times without being aware Of it.
A nervous moving of his hands and an
appearance of Precipitation on his FORE
head are perceptible. He now dives one
hand in at the back, and, feeling around,
finds q place and proceeds to explore it,
when he discovers that he is following up
the inside of lining. The nervousness
increases, also the perspiration. He
witches the dress on the hook, and sud-
denly the pocket, white, plump and ex-
asperating, comes to view. Then he signs
the relief he feels, and is mentally CRATE
full he did not allow himself to use any
offensive expressions. 1t is all right now.
There is the pocket in plain view-not the
inside. but the outside-and all he has to
do Is to put his hand right around in the
inside and take out the article. That
is all. He can't help but smile to think
how near he was to getting mad:
to the other side. He does not
feel the opening. He pushes little fur.
ther-now he has got 1.-THE shoves the
hand down, and is very much surprised
to see 1t appear opposite his knees. He
had made mistake. He tries again
again he feels the entrance and glides
down it only to appear again as before.
This makes him open his eyes and
straighten his face. He feels of the out
side of the pocket, pinches it curiously,
lifts it up, shakes ii, and after peering
closely about the roots of it he says " By
Gracious" and commences again. He
does it calmly this time, because hurrying
only makes matters worse. He holds up
breadth after breadth, goes over them
carefully, gets his hand first into lining,
then into the air again (where it always
surprises him when it appears), and finally
into pocket, and is about to cry out
with triumph, when he discovers that it is
the pocket to another dress. He is mad
now; the closet air almost stiles him: he
is so nervous he can hardly contain him
self, and the pocket looks at him so ex-
asperatingly that he cannot help but
plug" it with his clenched fist, and i'm.
mediately does it. Being somewhat re-
lieved by this performance he has q
chance to look about him, and sees that
he has put his foot through band. box
and into the crown OF his wife's bonnet
has broken the brim to his Panama hat
which was hanging in the same closet,
and torn about = yard of bugle trimming
from new cloak. As all this trouble is
due directly to his wite's infatuatiOn in
hanging up her dresses inside out, he i'm
mediately starts after her, and, impetuously
urging her to the closet, excitedly and
almost profanely in,imates his doubts of
there being a pocket in the dress. any
way. The cause of the unhappy disaster
quietly inserts her hand inside the robe,
and directly brings it forth with the
soughtfor article in its clasp. He doesn't
know why, but this makes him madden
than anything else.-Danbury Ne,os.