New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-07
STPiR4TED BY Az EIEVITED TEAM.

Dd YOU get separated from your wife at an Il
station you the departing TAIN and rhe left on tas
plallolm then Try lind her again! No Well.
never try 10 funny experiment Just to see how IL
works so spoke q country merchant. MY wife ard
cane down from Tarrytown last week to buy Christmas
things. arrived all right at the Forty-secondst. l.
station got the down train IN something OF push
ing crowd only look around and sac Miranda my WIFE,
q, the platform looking around a startled
she tried to the train. but the gates were closed
tried to get or but the guards shook their heads 80
nv wife and separated What was to do about III
".rbare are several hloQs that lock feasible enough
which would ge,t themselves at once but. sir.
none OF them feasible at all except on one condition
ina, both you and your wife have already agreed it.
Then that plan feasible enough Any plan Is feasible
then how many out OF the great hosts OF people
who ride on the such plan Certainly not
many u item. Ny wife and do now. but We hadnt
then.
The first thing that occurred the moment was
10 get os at the next station and 60 back Ny wifs
would wait for mc. had 10 cross over In hurry AZ
Thirty ride up and cross over back again This
cost ne two extra l. tickets and. n, got them, re-
membered with that wife did not have either
money tickets with her II she were lost now coule
she cot about town her fare home -
Tarrytown We commuters, and OF course as tho
man OF the family. carried the ccnmutat!on book ~
these things REQUIRED TO Inc. 1t WAS with ene OF terror
That I looked around the for,yseeond-st platform She
WINS NOT there locked inside. in the ticket ONCE 10
the sitting room. Nowhere she to be seen. How
beautiful would her old appeared to me at tia,
ticket cruncher f he had seen such
and such a lady. AMI If she had asked hhn anything
Tickets" he remarked IN reply
Thcn | remembered that had walked into TIE
sitting ROOM / would have to pay 10 come out again
went back and got q ticket. Then asked him again
There was who had tried to tell him something
about having cot separated from her husband and nos
knowing what to do there had come rush and no
told her that she had better ask some one else Is no
couldn't be interrupted she DISAPPEARED and he knew
nothing more.
Then there came TO ne thought which to tins DAY
thank Heaven for and Heaven also that the idea
came TO her She have gone back TO the Gtand
Central station wait for With money tickets
not get back She would not want to far away
from the Grand Central because she would uudcrstind
that however much l might around after her,
foraby looking oyer list OF things buy.
and not at all Disconnected the incident OF separ
ton She even laughed my disturbance. Then ad
there tucked dollar bill inside her glove and told her
that II separated again to remember that would
meet a. the Central for the D. m. train. Then
we went on our shopping tour.
Some Of the officers Of the road say that the thing
do Is to wait that's left the City Hall sta
ton and for 10 the very train. But sup
pose South Ferry train and landed at the
Battery With money ROW would she ever have got r
the Grand Central again II two separated people think
just alike In such emergency. all well and good bi'
how will they do so j. has all his wits about
him and thinks exactly the correct thing to do, Ia
sure that other Will There possibilities foi
helrrending disturbances In like this. Tho only
way to lx place and hour to meet again. and
then that wife carries some money with her"