The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-09-04
Why Her Ill Used Husband Didn't
Love Her ANY More.

'How is your husband?" asked the
! little woman in gray.
''Don't ask me, please; he hasn't spo-
ken to me for week. Come to think
of it, though, he must he quite well,
for if he has a pain in his finger he
thinks he j. about to die and wants To
make up all our differences"
at isn't a good time to quarrel while
Sadie is visiting you for the first time
since your marriage"
''One can't choose the time to quar-
rel or have the tOothache, dear. If you
promise never to repeat it, no matter
how funny it is, I'll tell you the whole
story"
"You may trust me implicitly, my
dear. If have a secret which / just
must tell somebody, / wait until my
husband i asleep, test him with some
thing unimpOrtant, then tell the whole
story. II relieves me without enlight-
ening him. Oh, | assure you, | am
safe a. church"
Every well, then. 1t began the day
before Sadie came, when | asked for
some money to go shopping"
THAT was commonplace enough,
am sure"
"Yes, and it was about the careless
way in which | carry my pOcketbook
in my hand, no matter how much
money it has in it,"
you'd better not. know a woman
who
$50 do lots of 'em. But / told
Tom I'd like to see anybody snatch a
pocketbOok out of my hand. Well, |
went into town to meet Sadie; then we
went shopping. As she had never seen
Tom wanted him to look ms best, so
| purchased some pretty things for him
a well as for myself
every generous of you, Pm sure"
"Yes, | had just gotten him two love
ly ncckties at - cents apiece and
thrown away the ticket - he'd like
them, not knowing what they cost.
Suddenly, as turned away from the
counter, somebody snatched my pocket
book right out OF my handr'
''GoOdness, how awfulr'
at came over me like flash what
Tom would say to me after all his
warnings about carrying money 80 care
lessly, and tainted away
''No wonder And did the thief es-
cape:"
'.Why, no. The queerest thing hap
pened. Sadie caught and held him
until policeman came. Then he-he
insisted that he was my husbandr'
"What impudence. But Sadie
''Oh, Sadie had u picture of Tom,
and as this man was smooth shaven"-
"And We all know Toms lovely
whiskers."
''She told the police it was only a
pretense, and gave our names and adj
dress. They had taken him away,
fighting like demon and protesting
that he was my husband, before came
to my SENSES"
GLOW fortunate that you did not see
the horrid creature"
Perhaps 30. But, oh, my dear, Tom
never came home al all that night /
was wild with alarm, and sadie was
sure that he was awfuliy dissipated.
About noon the next day was upstairs,
when ! heard Sadie in the front hall
calling, Help, help, thieves, thieves
ran down, and there was Tom him
selfr'
''But | don't see
''IIis whiskers were sheared of and
he-he wouldn't speak to me, and Sadie
wouldn't believe he was my husband"'
"Good gracious. You don't mean
that he had snatehed your pocketbOok
just To prove that it could be done? But
how did he settle with the police
That was just what he had done.
don't know how he settled it, for he
hasn't spoken To me since, and that
pocketbOok had in ii every dollar own,
and don't dare ask him for it."-Chi-
c0yO Times-Hcrdld.