The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-07
When Baby w.s sick, we gave her Castcf,s-
When she was Child, she cried for CSSsora.
When she became Miss, she cluns to CastoriA.
NAen shs hs:: Children. she gsve:hem Castc-s~
that she was, she reluctantly complied
with her fathers wishes

that she was, she reluctantly complied
with her fathers wishes
There is no denying it, moonlight is
| dangerous intoxicant. 1t is like too
much champagne-you wake up next
| morning and wonder what you said
| and who heard you. Then you eye
with cold suspicion every one whom
you can remember to have seen the
night before.
Well, when Bess took Tom by moon
light she evidently had method in
her Madness" for she elected prom
Use from him TO put an advertisement
in the Sunday paper. I cut the adver-
tisement out and this is the way it
read: Wanted, board for man and
wife in the country, with eesy access
to the city. Address T. c."
The deluge of replies which followed
this innocent advertisement very near
ly resulted in catastrophe. In the
morning at the office Tom couldn't see
his desk for the pile of letters which
covered it, and he spent the whole day
reading about the beauties of the coun-
try in the vicinity of New York.
At night he was forced to hire the
Office boy to help him carry home this
literature for Bess to read.
OF course he could not attend to
business at this rate, and his employ
ers began to suspect him of doing busi-
ness Independently of them, and he
nearly lost his position.
TO make matters worse, Bess spent
all the next day reading the packet
which Tom had brought home the
night before, and when he came home
to dinner at night Bess would sudden
ly remember that she had forgotten to
do any marketing that day.
This last circumstance was what
brought matters to a crisis. Tom got
desperate one night, and decided upon
place simply and solely because the
proprietor couldn't spoil. For this in
dividual had recommended his estate as
being ''forty-dve minuts wolk from
depot or coriges from depot to and
frow," and as being lone our wrids
from New York"
"a man who spells like that said
Tom, ought to have the science Of
agriculture down to a fine point, SO
we'll be sure Of good beard Bessie,
we will go there. We will start to-
morrow"
This announcement nearly took her
breath away, bat she was afraid to ask
him to wait longer for fear the moon
light spell might lose its charm, SO she
began to pack Immediately. happened
in there next morning, and found Bes-
sic packing as if her life depended upon
it. while Tom was walking impatiently
about the room with his coat and hat
on ready to start.
l think they were nearer TO dis
agreement than l ever saw them, and
there was something in the domestic
which made me decidedly
cool to Harry that night when he called
After seeing all their preparation for
a whole summers absence, you may inn
agine my surprise when I passed the
apartment house in which Bess lived,
and looked up at her window expecting
10 see the shades drawn down, and
everything closed tight, when lol there
sat Bess, as nournful an object as
ever laid eyes on. rushed across the
street, and few up the stairs to demand
IN explanation. Bess met me at the
ioor and threw herself into my arms