The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-03

| breaker making a selection from her
! top bureau drawers.
To scream is a convenient but doubt
| full eNpedient and few enough of us
have just the courage to meet the sit
uation as did Mrs. Lorillard. She had
come home one night from the opera,
kind heartedly dismissed her tired
maid and began to undo her jewels
/ from her hair when a reflection from
! her mirror showed her an unmistaka-
Bile masculine foot, clumsily clad, half
protruding from beneath her bed. When
all the ornaments had been removed
she went across to the bedside, knelt
| and softly began her prayers, which
sonhow that night were more hearty
| and generous than ever before. She
| prayed for her friends and family, for
the needy and then in placid voice for
any who might be tempted to commit
crimes. An uncomfortable sob interrupt
! ted her devotions and a gaunt, hungry
| looking, red headed Irishman crawled
out from hiding, blubbering like
small boy. He turned out to be an
ex-coachman of the family who had fall
len from grace into crime. in which his
| extraordinary tender sensibilities must
! sooner or later have brought him to
grief and a jail. Not only did his late
| repentant wretch sufficient to relieve his
| distress, but made him up with her own
| hands a comfortable lunch from the ice
| box and lighted him out the area door,
| after a severe lecture and receiving his
| solemn assurance of reformation.
The Electric Button.
Well. in case Mrs. Lorillard's brave
plan of burglar diplomacy seems too diff
tcult for an occasion, this nice, new
invention comes charmingly into play.
1t is a little harmless looking black but
ton on the sideboard of ones bed which
when pressed by the disturbed sleeper
rings an alatm in the servants apart
ments There is a code of signals, by
which one short sharp ring, followed
by two long ones means that the house
breaker is pursuing his profession in the
ringers own room and further combn-
ationS of rings designate other rooms or
doors to be searched.
All these signals can be made, while
the burglar. in false conviction OF his
victims SAUNDERS. is picking over ones
belongings; by silently slipping one hand
out TO the knob. Then when the bold
robber turns to make his exit he must
fall gently into the strong yearning en-
brace Of the butler waiting for him On
the threshold
Mrs. kfrn0chan's Wit.
1t is always best on the whole to let
is near. for in a close corner this,
otherwise almost harmless, creature will
do desperate things and looking under
the bed is invariably fine precaution
cule of the plan. 1t was only the other
day that an exhibition of what might
be called foolish feminine nervousness
disclosed burglar in the neatest man
There came thunder storm in the
night with a frightful play of lightning
that filed the little wife with an ardent
desire to shut herself in her big dress
closet. Her husband coaXed and argued
against her fears, but up she got, plucked
open the closet door and to her alarmed
gaze was revealed by tremendous
fash, wretched burglar kneeling and
der cover of the thunder and rain he had
made tour of the house, but as great a
coward before lightning rs the little wife.
he got into the closet whence he was
skilfully elected by the husband, who
never laughs now at his wife's alarm.
On the whole though women are cool
and plucky in dealing with burglars, and
it Was Mrs. James Kirnochan who all
alone one night in her country house,
save for servants on the top floor, caught
a glimpse over the transom of her bed
room door of a familiar face He
watched her as she counted roll of bills
drawn that day from the bank TO pay
her household expenses, but she con-
ing to affix a mark on every bill and the
whole sum, amounting to several hun
dred dollars, she put carelessly in her
desk drawer, blew out her light, got into
bed and heard very distinctly when the
theft was made BY IL o'clock the next
morning both thief and bills were re-
turned and in this instance quiet acquis-
ence had undoubtedly saved the lndy's
life. MILL1CENT ARROWPOINT