San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-22
4 HITCH M rER CALCULATIONS.
This Story Is About a woman's Strategy
Hat and a Counterfeit Bill.

This Story Is About Womans STRATEGY
Hat and a Counterfeit Bill.
"You know that lovely fall hat 1 wa
telling you about the other day." sale
the young woman in blue.
81 do" replied the young woman il
green. "You got it, of course?"
"Well, no, 1 didn't. You see, L"
"But thought you had only to make
up your mind as to the device by which
you would coax the money out of your
husband. Knowing that you had only
been married a year, looked upon the
matter as settled"
T-well, you see, it was this way: ]
made him perfectly lovely.salad and
after he had eaten it I began to coax
him for the hat. He said he couldn't
afford it. II wouldn't have minded
that so much, but he actually said
didn't need it,"
"Mercy on us! Then the salad wasn't
good, after ALP"
'Yes, it was; but he had eaten too
much and it disagreed with him. OF
course, 1 didn't give up the hat when he
said that"
"Why, of course you didn't. You
only"
"Set about planning another way to
get it? OF course. He was busy at his
desk, going over his accounts in that
tiresome way that men have. 1 never
thought Jack would turn out to be the
least like papa"
"They are all like that after they are
married, dear. But about the hat"
20, yes, the hat! While Twas perfect
ing another plan of attack saw him
crumple up a lot of papers, bank note
among them, and fling them, with an
exclamation, into the wastebasket."
"Then he had money, after all, and
it was only meanness about the hat?"
81 saw that in minute. Well, I pre-
tended that thought he was through
work and coaxed him to come into the
parlor and hear me sing. He isn't usual
~ so anxious for that, but he was so
glad that wasn't sulky about the hat
that he agreed at once. You see, was
afraid he'd notice the money in the
waste basket and"
you meant to have it yourself? /
see."
well, if he was so careless with
money he deserved to lose it. I'm
fortunately, however, he had an
economical fit and turned off the gas
before we went into the parlor, SO I
couldn't slip back and rescue the
money without attracting his atten-
ton"
20, well, you could wait, anyhow,
until he was safely asleep"
81 did. Then 1 stole down into the
library and rescued tit proved to be
a $40 bill. However, as bad luck would
have it, I stepped on one of those hor-
rid burglar alarms on the way back
and reused the whole household. Jack
came running down with revolver and
nearly shot me for a burglar"
Gracious! How did you. explain?"
"Said I had heard somebody moving
about downstairs and went to investi-
gate. I wish now 1 hadn't told him
that, for I shall have to live up TO
reputation for bravery"
"Tm sorry for you. Still, you had
the money"
"The worst of it was that I had
dropped the money in my fright, and
couldn't find it anywhere, though got
up at daylight to hunt"
'Pshawl Why didn't you offer the
servants a reward? That would"
81 did. Offered them five dollars,
and the housemaid found it before
luncheon. I gave her the five dollars
I had promised and telephoned the mil
liner to send up the hat. However,
my conscience troubled me that after
noon, and decided to tell Jack the maid
had found it. You see, knew he'd
give it to me, anyway"
$50 you told him? Well, what did he
say?"
He said: That COMPOUNDED old
counterfeit again! Is there absolutely
no way of getting rid of it""-Chicago
Tribune.