Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-28
4 Threatened Divorce.

or the boss nuisance, WnlcueVef IL is
has PLAYED serious part IN the his
tory of my family and of lay friends.
In an unfortunate moment, some days
aro 1n,aledictiou be on it, invested
ten cents in the fifteen" puzzle. l
tLourht I had obtained my money 8
worth. but alas. l had purchased ten
NIGHTS wakefulntss and fifteen times
more family feud thar had reckoned
on. | thought as l carried the
wretched little instrument OF torture
home in my pocket how happy | WAS to
have i. and instead cf that, l have not
known WA. it is to be happy since its
shsdow dorkened my doors. On the
first night 1 worked hard over it until
IA. NJ, although the hardest work l
had VAS 10 keep my wife and Oldest
daughtpr from Selling it. l went to
he'd with headache, disappointed and
moI. but determined. Iawoke iu the
morning with headache and found
my daughter of fifteen at " fifteen"
She was late at scho i that day. and l
was two hours behind time. 1t was
the 10th of the month, but l dated all
NV letters tho 18th, and one of them
after the old style, 13-15-14."
That evening was forced to use pa
terna and martial authority to keep
the peacc-and the pieces, may add
1t never occurred to us to buy another
puzzle. worked all the evening
hard, and got pretty mad, not because
Icouljn't do it, but because that busy
body of wife persisted Ill telling me
how to move the blocks as ii she
knew any better than | did!
Tha next evening my mother'in-law
Aec to tea with us. She said She
q III done the " fifteen puzzle several
time. "Not with ii 10" / said.
"nor with 15-14?' Ion. yes" She
replied. "Well, there must have
been some of the Other numbers out
of sequence. too" said. NO." she
still insisted, nothing but 10 ii"
"And you are sure you didn't lit one
out?' continued l specifically. "Of
course 1 didn't" she retorted with as
periiy; do you think l cheat and tell
falaehoods?" Whereupon L gulped
down my sneaking suspicious on that
subject, and replied very blanaly tbe-
cause bho has money, and my wife,
Fanny, has only one sister,, Ger
tainiy not. mother, dear but then
thought perhaps it was accidental"
"Well, Mr.. c." she said, excitedly,
and rising from the table, lyon must
take me for an idiot to think that ]
could lift block by accident Can
you do the puzzle again?' I asked,
moved by satanic instinct to prove to
her that sho was wrong, and utterly
unmindful of her limitless bank ac-
count. - don't know she replied
curtly, as she swept out of the room
with that dignity which is born alone
Of the consciousness of possessing
cords of United States registered As or
other truck of o similar nature. Fan
ny came down very cross and said,
Edward, l think you were extremely
rude" Possibly" said ], "but she
can't do 15-14, if l was" Nothing
more was said, and Fanny went of to
bsAearly. did not.
Tathfulness runs in my wife's fam
lily, and consequently was tortured
with the belief that my mother-inlaw
had done "15-14," and il she had
done it, it was possible I would do it;
so worked until half-past twelve.
When l went up stairs Fanny was
awake, but an awkward silence reigned
supreme. That was tho first night for
sixteen years that I had failed to kiss
her goodnight, except when We were
not together. The next evening my
daughter declared she could do )" IL
TO- or "15-14," so after tea We went
at it sie et armis, or in other words, de-
termined to vie without arms. She
fooled around over those blocks for an
hour, until l got so nervous and so
provoked with the stupid way she
moved them l would have slapped her
had she only been younger. A circle
OF five or seven is tho only legitimate
way to move, and instead of that she
Travelled ali over the board. Finally
she changed the position OF the vacant
square and declared she haA done it.
sent her to bed.
The next day was Sunday, and really
tor me day of rest. Throughout the
litany, when the congregation muir
INJURED, Good Lord, deliver u.s." I
silently added, From the puzzle of
Fifteen" But our climax came ON the
following evening, when my wife as
serted, and insisted that she herself,
with her mother, had done "15-14."
said she hadn't; that it couldn't be
"Atuout oOIuo IElCns uAA tuoe
didn't believe it. We had been cool
and hadn't kissed since the row. She
replied that I was insulting, and I
answered that if her mother said she
could do "15-14," fair and square,
shf said what was not true, and that
st knew it wasn't true whom she said
so' Fanny, thereat, said that she
never could have believed that I could
30 far forget myself. / replied to the
elect that her mother had told lie,
and that perhaps it was not the first
one.
The next morning Fanny went to her
mothers, and sent o note saying that
until knew how to treat her and her
mother with respect she would not re-
turn, and she never will il 1 have to
acknowledge first that her mother can
40 " 15-l4," because she can't and
there's the end of it. N. Y. Nail.
low TO OBTAIN SLEEP.-The fol-
lowing is recommended Ms a
cure for sleeplessness: Wet half
towel, apply it to the back
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