The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-12-18

She Felt Sure He Wasn't Worrying About
Her.


"Why is it that no woman can send
telegram that the receiver can under.
stand? ! don mean the advanced and
bcbloomered woman, but the real femi.
nine kind, the only kind worth know
ing.
Thus began Jarvis, with fearful
frown. He was in quiet mood now,
outwardly at least, but we who knew
him saw that he had been groaning in
wardly over some unpleasant memory
all through luncheon.
my wife arrived home yesterday
from her summer i'll the blue grass
co lutry,' Jarvis continued, and her
able and accomplished method of send
ins kilograms gave me fine lot of ex-
rrllso to say nothing of worrying me
half to death.
"she Will telegraph me into an early
grave. For two weeks before she start
ed for New York | had been begging
her to write me in full the name of the
railroad on which she would travel and
the time, autemeridicm or post merid-
lem, that her train would arrive in Jer-
soy City. Last year | had to pay a cab
man for horse he had foundered gal
Looping for six hours between the three
railroad stations at which she might ar
rive Why? Because she sent me this
telegram:
"Will arrive O'Clock. All well.
With love to you"
you catch the idea, don't you? She
knew the hour and the railroad station
which she would arrive Ergo | should
know it. The telegram was mere for
mality, sent i'll response to my request.
You know how a woman regards tel
egram? She knows that Tor 20 or 90
cents she can buy ten words, which the
telegraph company must deliver tosome-
body somewhere, 1t is impossible for
her to send more or less than Just ten
words.
'Of course she ignored my latest re-
quest, to write tie details Of her home
ward trip. | got a telegram day before
yesterday morning from her father stat
ing that she had left EmiDonce, Ky, on
the c. and O. railroad and would ar
rive via the Pennsylvania at 6 O'Clock
the following evening. Can you imag.
inc the shock | felt three hours later ON
receiving this?
LEXINGTON, Ky.
To a. B. Jauviz mice way to spell Jurvisj
Missed connection. viii arrive nine twenty
from Nash'n. With love. KATE.
That made just ten words, you see,
so from the feminine point Of view it
was perfect. But how could tell where
and when to meet heT! | was distract
ed. What did the blamed thing meal,
anyhow! Will arrive 9:20?' That look
ed simple enough until | filled out the
puzzle this way, will arrive on the
train that starts from Washington at
0:20.' Again, was it morning or even
| ing? And you remember how hot it
was yesterday.
Both my partners and the book
keeper agreed on the theory that the
train started from Washington at 9:20
in the mUrnin~. But there was no such
train III the guidebook. Our chief drum.
mer, who has lived for years in railroad
trains, said train left Washington
about O'Clock in the evening. In de-
spair | called on railroad agent, and
after long pondering he advised me to
be at Jersey City at 90 minutes past 8
o'clock that evening. Sure enough she
arrived on that train.
4" How haggard you look, dearl' she
remarked. 'You mustn't work so hard.
| know you couldn't have been worrying
! about me, for | sent you such bust.
nesslille telegram p'-New York Herald.