Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-08
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"a ~ IAN ana she left on the platform
mo a. then try to find her avs;ns M;
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JUST 70 see how 1t works a. ss .eu'
country merchant "My w;fs "a
s; sne from Iarrytowa We arrived Al,
;'sn. at lne Forty-second street station
eot on the down train in sometbinn , !,
pushing crowd. only to look aros,n :,
ana gee Miranda, my wife. on TIC ~ !.
form looking around for me n ! sts. ~ !,
way. She tried to get on the train In,
LIE LIE gates were closed tried to Gel Of
Dut tne guards shook their heads g.
my wife and | were separated wh.,
was to do about its A"'
There are several thirps th.. ~.
feasible enough which would suepest
themselves to you at once, but. sir nons
q tnem is feasible at all except on M
condition-that both you and your wifi III
nave already agreed on it. Then Tho,
plan Is feasible enough. Anv nlon 4
feasible then. But how many out Of The
great hosts OF people who ride on The
= agree on such plan7 Certainly maj
many OF them. Ny wife and do now
but we hadn't then.
'rhe first thing that occurred n -.
:. tne moment was to get of at the next
s.auon and go back. My wife would
wait for me. had to cross over in ]
hurry at Thirty-fourth street rida M
ana cross over back again. This cost
me two extra L tickets, and as got
them ! remembered with horror that
my wife did not have either money :,
tickets with her. =
III she were lost, how could sha oa+
about town. how even get her fare again
nome to Tarrytown? We were com.
muters, and Of course |, as the man Of
the family, carried the Communication
book As these things required to me
u was with sense Of terror that
looked around the Forty second street
platform. She was not there. Hooked
inside. in the ticket office, in the sitting
room. Nowhere was she to be seen
How beautiful would her old face have
appeared to me at that momentl | asked
the ticket cruncher if he had seen such
and such lady. and If she had asked
him anything.
"IlcketsF he remarked in reply.
"Then remembered that as had
walked into the sitting room / would
have to pay to come out again. went
back and got ticket Then asked him
again. There was some che who had
tired to tell him something about having
got separated from her husband and not
knowing what to do, but there had come
a rush, and he told her that she had bet
ter ask some one else, as he couldn't be
interrupted. SO she disappeared. and be
knew nothing more
Then there came to me a Thought
which to this day thank heaven for
and thank heaven also that the idea
came to her. She must have gone back
to the Grand Central station to wait for
me. With no money or tickets she
could go nowhere else except down, and
then she could not get back. She would
not want to veer very far away from
the Grand Central. because she would
understand that however much might
run around town after her. must come
there at last There | found her, very
comfortably looking over the list of
things we were to buy, and not at all
disconnected at the incident of our sepa-
ration. She even laughed at my dis
turbance. Then and there tucked a
dollar bill inside her glove, and told her
that if we got separated again to remem-
Der that we would meet at the Central
in time for the 5 p. IN. train. Then we
went on our shopping tour.
"Some Of the officers of the road say
that the thing to do is to wait for the
one that's left at the City Hall station.
and for her to take the very next train
But suppose she had taken South ferry
train and landed at the Battery? With
no money, how would she ever have got
to the Grand Central again? If two sep
arated people think just alike in such an
emergency, all well and good; but how
often will they do so? If one has all his
wits about him and thinks out exactly
the correct thing to do. is it sure that
the other one will? There are possibili-
ties for heartrending disturbances in a
case like this. The only way to do is to
fix on a place and hour to meet again
and then see that your wife carries some
money with her. New York Tribune