The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-03-05

The most difficult thing to reach ID. :
woman pocket. " This. is especially the
case if til. dress is hung Up Is I 81; Closet
and the man is in. hurry: We think
We are safe ii saying that hesis always in
: h9l ~ on such an occasion. The owner
Of the dress is in the sitting room serene
y engaged 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 be serene. Il: He. goes
there with q, dim consciousness that he
has been there before, but he says moth
ing. On opening the closet door and
finding himself confronted With 1 number
Of dresses, all inside out, and presenting
= most formidable front, he: hastens
back to inquire Z" which dress!" and be.
Ing told the brown one, and asked if she
had so many dresses that there need
be any great effort to find the right one,
ne returns to the closet with alacrity,
and soon has his hands on the brown
dress. lit is inside out, like the rcst-a
fact he does not notice, however, until he
has made several Intellectual attempts to
get his hand into it. Then he turns it
aronndvery carefully and passes over tho
pocket several times without being aware
OF it, A nervous movement of his hands
and an appearance of perspiration on his
forehead are perceptibIo. He now dives
one hand in at the back, and, feeling
around, finds a place and proceeds to ex.
plore it, when he discovers that he is fol-.
lowing up the inside of a lining. The
nervousness increases, also the perspira-
ton. lie witches the dress on the hook.
and suddenly the pocket, white, plump,
and exasnerating, comes to view. Then
he slghs the relief he feels, and
Is mentally grateful he did not al
low himself to use any offensive ,ex-
Pressions. 1t is all right now. There is
the pocket in plain view NOT only the
inside, but the outside-and all he has to
do is to put his right hand around in the
inside and take out the article. That is
all. He can thelp but smile to think how
near he was to. getting mad. Then he
puts his hand around to the other side.
He does not feel the opening. He pushes
a little further-now he has got it: he
shoves the hand down, and is very much
surprised to see it appear opposite his
knees. He has made a 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
outside Of the pocket, pinches it curious.
y, lifts it up, shakes it, and, after peer.
ing 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 af.
ter 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 pock-
ct, and is about to cry out in triumph,
when he discovers that it is the pocket of
another dress. H ismad now; the closet
air almost stiles him he is SO nervous
he can hardly contain himself, and the
pocket looks at him so exasperatingly
that he cannot help but "plug'' it with
his fist. and Immediately does it. Being
somewhat relieved by this performance,
he has chance to look about
him, and see that he has put his foot
through bandbox and into the crown Of
his wife IS 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
wife's infatuation in hanging up her
dresses inside out, he Immediately starts
after her, and, impetuoasly urging her to
the closet, excitedIy and almost profanely
intilnates his doubts of there being
pocket in the dress anyway. The cause
of the unhappy disaster quietly inserts
her hand inside the robe, and directly
brings it forth with the sought for article
in its clasp. He doesn't know why, but
this makes him madden than anything
else.