Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-06-29
A MOTHERS ANXIETY.
Heartrending Aesentmindedness Took
 Away the Pleasure of Walt.

 Aesentmindedness Took
 Away the Pleasure of . Walt.
 An up town woman accepted an invitation for one night for herself and husband to dine and sleep at the house of a friend in Morristown. That would be simple enough af- fair to many persons, but to the woman in question it was an elab- crate transaction, because she never left her children overnight. How ever. after getting her husbands sis ter to come up from Staten Island to stay. and making her brother, who lived with her, promise he would spend the evening at home m case any emergency should arise needing a mans assistance, the overievoted mother felt a certain sense of security for the brief absence.
 It was a consolation, too. to recell as she rode down town about ? o'clock that the nurse had been with her for four years, and the cook and housemaid were tried and faithful servants as well. Still this did not prevent her meeting her husband with torrent of suggestive anxieties, and the trip to the ferry was inter larded with frequent outbursts of ex- aggerated maternal fears.
 They were in midstream, though, before the tragedy came. Mrs. A. had been sitting wrapped in deep thought for several seconds when suddenly her face took on an expres- sion of agony, and clutching her bus bands arm she exclaimed, 'Oh, Franki" in tones of such real distress that her husband thought she was about to faint.
 "what is itf" he asked. greatly alarmed
 ''Oh, left the bathroom window open, she gasped, "and Harold some times strays in there, and the bar IS of, you know. l thought it would not matter till summer, for the win dow is never open save under my supervision.
 "Why is it open today, thenf" the half angry, half anxious father in- quired.
 'I wanted to air the halls well be- fore I left. I'm always so afraid of sewer gas, and Jessie might forget it. Oh, dear must go back at once, and the distracted woman started for the rear of the boat.
 Her husband impatiently detained her.
 You can't swim back" he said grimly. There's no use in your going back anyway. When we get across we'll send a dispatch to Jessie.
 '.But if she shouldn't get it, walled the mother, who by this time saw the mangled form of her four-year-oid stretched on the flags beneath the bathroom window, hadn't we bet ter send messenger, and you could pay him extra to make him fyT
 MT. A. thought this might be . difficult and expensive result to ob tam, ana persu8ueu HIS Wuc tna' electricity would be better. At the telegraph station her doubts arost again and considerable time was con sumed discussing the efficiency ol each method. Finally a rushed dispatch was sent, Mrs. A. writing it, and finding a degree of relief II underscoring some of the words: Be sure to shut the bathroom window d ossos Answer Morristown-
 By this time the train they starte( for had gone, and half hours wal was cheerfully occupied by Mrs. A in felicitating herself that she hat left the family physicians telephon' call with her sister-in-law Jessie ana also with the nurse. They had bare ly reached their rooms after greatie.. their hostess, when Q servant brough up a dispatch. Mr.zA- tore the ep yelope sad mastered its contents.
 "yTell, said his wife anxiously.
 You did not leave it open. Jes sic, read Mir. A.-Her Point of Viev in New York Times.