The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26
THEN TRIGGER WENT HOME.
Camphor. Alcohol. and Kerosene C~onvincet
Him II was Safer TO Go Than Stay.

Camphor. Alcohol. and Kerosene Convinced
Him II was Safer 20 Go Than Stay.
The Trigger family returned to Its city homo
a week ago from a cottage in the country. and
Mr.. TwigRer. following the dictates Of his pru-
dence. spent most of what his wife called set.
Ting time" outside the house. On one of the
evenings when the summer draperies were
being removed from the Twigger furniture the
head of the family met a group of his friends.
and. sitting around a table In an uptown cafe.
they began to exchange summer stories.
suppose every married man has had a din.
ner party scare began Mr.. Twigger. 81 had
my first one last June. We had been in the
country only about a week. when one of my
business friends came out to see me. He didn't
intend to visit US, but he missed the last train
for the city on Saturday, and accepted my invi-
tation to stay with us until Monday morning. I
knew what his tastes were pretty we'll. and that
one Of his favorite desserts was an old.fashioned
bread pudding, with lots Of raisins in 1t. So I
told my wife to have the cook make one for
Sundays dinner. The dinner was a good one
and we oil enjoyed it. Our guest was particu-
larry well pleased when the maid brought the
pudding in, and my wife assured him that great
pains had been taken to put enough raisins in 1t.
while the pudding was being served we be.
gan a discussion, and for several minutes no
attention was paid to the meal. Then I took a
mouthful of the pudding. and 1t nearly par
alyzed me. 1t tasted like a medicine chest. I
never got such a flavor before. Hooked around
] called the maid and told her to remove It.
Then / said that some mistake had been made.
and ! didn't think any one would want to eat it.
when an opportunity came I told my wife
that there had been some medicine spilled in
The pudding and asked her to find out about 1t:
who had been in the family for years, and after
a good deal q trouble found out what the
her stuff she had put her summer clothes in u
trunk. taking them out OF a chest. where they
keep tho moths away. Her clothes didn't fill
the trunk, and so she had taken the raisins and
EN- in. She used the raisins to make that pud.
ding. and the result was almost fatal to me.
She wont be so saving another time" .,
We'll. every ono has experiences like that. -
said another man. "A crowd OF men came TO
my house to dinner once. and got a lot Of these
lamps and didn't think anything more about
to test some old whiskey I had. We went to the
sidehoard and all of them said they'd have a
t the siG %asss a. shsif ali Of fh shsm WAS poured q pdi' s 6 or OF
the stuff In it into their whiskey. Then they
af"H X ins s DO san thinf of it I said.
No one spoke for a moment. Then one OF
1T maybe damned fine liquor. butts a little
too strong for me- he said.
Il was thunderstruck and didn't recover
uHiu L iounu Out lndt inc dlcOnol LOT inc lamps
was in the pitcher. an, that they had poured Il
wouldn't say anything about the liquor"
My wife gave a hen party once" put in an
cause she couldn't be in the house to prepare
the luncheon she left it to the girl. The women
came to the house, and after sitting around fol
a while my wife led the way into the dining
room. All the women trooped after her. and
turned black In the face. The green girl had
spread one OF the linen sheets for a teblecloth
and every woman in the room knew it,
II got a drink of kerosene at n house in thi.
town once" said another man. II don't know
how il happened. and l never told my host.
asked the butler for IA glass of water. II,
brought me n glassful of some stuff that looked
like water, and ] had part Of it in my mouth be
fore l discovered that il was kerosene. I've go
q pretty strong stomach. but l had to plead = sud
den illness and quit tho table. My host doesn'
know what made me leave so abruptly yet"
well. said Mr.. Twigger, married life hai
Its drawbacks. l guess it'll be safer for me Il
go home now than an hour from now"