The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
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MRS. puTNAMs MISTAKE.
Cow . LonG-Sunering Wife Attempted
Rebuke Her Husband.

aow . Lon&-SuRering Wife Attempted -
Rebuke Her Husband.
There comes from Port Jervis, n. Y,
he account of recent happening there,
! which seems to be not without interest.
II tells Of the attempt Of q long-suffer-
ing wife to administer q mild rebuke to
1 brute of husband. The lady failed,
but, anyhow, she got in what We may
.all good crack on q man, and no
loubt he deserved it. A woman can
seldom go amiss in rebuking a man.
T. appears that Rev. Mr.. Stuyyesant, of
5usquehanna, Pa. on a recent afternoon
went to attend some sort of a special
meeting in one of the Port Jervis
churches. When the services were over
it was rather late, and Mr.. Mason Put
aaIn, one of the elders of the church,
invited him home to supper. The rev.
erend gentleman accepted, and the two
walked away together. Now, it hap
pened that Mrs. Putnam was in no way
prepared for visitors. The grocery
man had failed on about half the orders
that day, and the cat had got at a fine
boiled tongue and eaten up half of it
and considerably disfgured the ne
uainder. Besides. it was the hired girls
afternoon out, there was caster of
The dining-rooIn table, and one of the
children had the whooping cough. Mr..
Putnam knew all of this, but, manlike,
he went ahead and invited the minis
ter without saying a word to his faith
ful helpmeet. She stood at the window
and saw them coming. Just then an
other of the children reported that the
cat, having finished the heavier courses,
~as making his dessert on a cream pie
which she had set on the window sill
TO cool. Mrs. Putnam turned away,
leaving her foolish husband and the un-
fortunate minister to make the best
Of their way in, and gave her attention to
the cat This intelligent beast made
his escape out of the window and re-
treated around the woodshed, apparent
ly looking for a cigar with which to
round off his repast.
Mr.. Putnam and his guest entered,
talking weakly and unsuspectingly of
tho need of greater crcumspection in
charity work. 1t happened that smart
shower had fallen on the way home,
ond, by strange coincidence. both had
lost their umbrellas at the meeting; so
they were pretty well drenched. Come
right upstairs, Mr.. Stuyvesant, and I
will give you some dry clothing" said
Mr.. Putnam; and he led the way. Here
he fitted out the minister in clothes
of his own, ending with a dressing
gown, which proved an excellent fit.
go on down, while look for my slip
pers." said Putnam. II guess you'll
find Mrs. P in the sitting-room,
reading or doing fancy work" The
minister started for the stairs.
Mrs. Putnam was indeed i'm the sit
ting room, though scarcely occupied al
her genuine spouse had thought prob
able. Rather, she stood with one hand
on the family Bible-a large and we'll
bound volume, containing the Old and
New Testaments, translated out Of
the original tongues and diligently COM
pared, together with the Apocrypha
and family record. She glanced out
into the hall and saw, apparently, the
wretched man TO whom she was linked
for life descending, comfortably ar
rayed IN his dressing gown. just then
she heard the hollow revcIbeTa tons of
the child with the whooping cough,
while the other announced from the
cellar that the furnace fire had gone
out. The man i'm the dressing gown
put his foot on the hall floor. Mrs. Put
nam stepped noiselessly behind him
with the family Bible carried well back
over her right shoulder. She brought
it forward with all her strength. II
struck with a deep. dull sound on the
side of the mans head, while she ex-
claimed, in a fierce whisper: There,
take that, you wretch. for bringing
that preacher here tonight"
The good man IN the misleading dress
ing gown reeled, caught himself and
turned. Mrs. Putnam collapsed in q
convenient chair, her husband peered
down from above with white and
hunted face and the boy came in and
said that the cat was on the pantry
shelf yowling, apparently hungry.
Thus we see that, if you are destined
to failure, fail largely. nobly, grandly;
be not like dumb, driven cattle-be q
hero in the str;fe.-N. Y. Tribune
He Fad Heard 1t.
when two bodies come together sud-