Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-17
TAE WIPES SECRET.
A Thrilling and Realistic DomestIc Trag. edy in One Act.
 CHARACTERS:
Mir. Lemuel Dolliver.
 Mrs. Lemuel Deliver.


 MT. Deliver (entering dining-room) Well, my love, I hope you have some- thing nice for dinner, am as hungry as two bears.
 Mrs. Deliver (embracing him tender ly)-You dear, good boy, how tired and hungry you must bo-all day at that horrid office. Deliver (seated)-Hello! mushroom saucel oyster pate! tenderloin steak! say. Adele, what's the occasion2 It isn't our anniversary. is it?
 Mrs. Dolliver-It isn't any thing but just nice dinner for you, dear.
 Deliver (hungrily)-By love. you're duck. (Eats voraciously.) It isn't every fellow who can-what's the mat- ter! Aren't you going to eat any thiugP
 Mrs. Dolliver-I am not very hungry, dear.
 Dolliver-Well, you can eat some- thing. Let me help you to-(pauses, alarmed) you look pale-are you ill? Mrs. Deliver (confusedly) - No, there's nothing-that is-(comes to his side). Yes, there is something.I want to tell you. I-(goes back to her seat hastily.
 Mir. Deliver Qays down his knife and | AOEh " h11 HI 0hS "OAAA 10 eAS AA'sN ter? Is it that pain in your lung t' : last winter
 Mrs. Deliver (laughingly) - Non- sense. you poor anxious boy. Suddenly growing serious) must tell you, Lem- uel, l-I
 Mir. Deliver (alarmed)-Great HeAV- | ems! You don't mean to say your moth CT is coming to visit us again! (reso- l,k ch here for an entire week only two years | ago and must say Mrs. Dolliver-Lemuel, am ashamed of you! When I think how much moth CT thinks of you and how kimd-No, | she is not coming, sir! It is not that. To-day IT. Mir. Deliver (suspicioUsly)-You met Arthur De Twirliger! Don't tell ae jt was by accident, 1 thought you said you would not speak to him after that row we had about Mrs. Deliver (not at all offended)- You foolish fellow, why haven't seen Arth-Mr. De Twirliger for year. and don't care that for him. No, it isn't that, Lemuel, but to-day I was tempted | to-to--
 Mir. Deliver (darkly)-You haven't
 
 Adele, when you forge a mans name, even if it is your husbands, you are liable
 Mrs. Deliver Lemuel, how dare you suspect me of crime? (Sobs.) Oh! have lived to see the day when my hus. band called me a mur-murdererl Mir. Dolliver-Adele, I'm sure T.
 Mrs. Dolliver-Well, for-forger, ,sA I'm sure I never gave you any occasion your pan-pantaloons.
 Mir. Dolliver-Adele, for Heavens sake! can't you see l was only joking? And please to remember (severely) that you provoked it by your suspicious man. ner. You have secret from me. Mrs. Dolliver-There! ] knew you would scold when told you, Mir. .Dolliver (frantically)-But you haven't told me any thing!
 Mrs. Dolliver-IIow can tell you when you fly at me in that way every time open my mouth?
 Mir. Deliver (desperately)-You will drive me crazy!
 Mrs Deliver (peniteptly)-Oh don't! don't! It isn't any thing, only--only- (pauses, then goes on rapidly went out to-day to buy paper of pins and spool of No. 10 black cotton, because I | had to have some to Mir. Deliver (relieved) )-And you lost your pocketbook containing thirty cents, two car tickets, a dress sample and a glove-hook. Ha! ha!
 Mrs. Deliver (seriously) - Don't laugh; l know you'll never forgive me. After finished my shopping walked along Sixth avenue and l saw-that is I walked in-oh, Lemuel!
 Mir. Deliver (shouting)-In Heavens name, Adele, put me out of this fright full suspense.
 Mrs. Doliver-And you will promise MT. Dolliver-Promise nothing! Go on!
 Mrs. Deliver Coming to him again) You have always said lace was becon, ing
 Mir. Deliver beginning to tumble)- | An!
 Mrs Deliver (speaking very rapidly And I saw such a lovely bonnet-a perfect dream of lace and ribbons, and Mme. Bedad said she never saw any thing that suited my complexion so ex. actly, and knew you would think so too, when you saw it, and as it was only SS5, and the madame said it didn't make any difference, if you didn't pay the bill this week, and knew you wouldn't mind, so the madame sent it home and it came an hour ago, and I'm going to put it right on so you can see how it looks.
 Mir. Deliver (as his wife put on the bonnet)-By George.-N. Y. World. Cleaning Files by Electricity. The file manufacturers are not dis l posed to regard with much complacency