Evening journal., 1898-05-21
IAYFARER'S NOTE BOOK
hings, Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant, Caught on the Way.
z1Ts ON PERSONS AND THINGS

'p YOU READ THEM BEFORE SUI
PER THEY WILL AID YOUR d.
GESTloN, BUT THERE IS NoTH-
s. ING PUT IN THEM TO LULL YOU |
TO SLEEP.
IT NEVER PAYS TO LIE.
In this nineteenth century no man |
above suspicion.
~ In this year of our Lord 1898 a side |
*bmb is a small affair, but it can knock
& big hole in a mans marital happi-
less, especially If it happens to be
# range side-cOmb.
Il With these predications the Way
s. |arer will proceed with his story.
In one Of the large hotels Of the city
F here dwell a man, his wife and
laughter, young woman. lie is
NhorOugh-going business man, ana as
true to his wife as any man in the
Nity but she has a vein Of jealousy In
er make-up-and what woman mas
OF.
Early this week the husband decided
s 10 take a ride, and ordered his car
iage sent to the hotel. His drive was
n a business matter, and for that rea-
on he said nothing to his wife about
ID. The carriage arrived sooner than
e expected it, and, as luck would have
"a, his wife and daughter were going
but and when they saw the carriage
hey decided that they might just as
Ivell use 1t. Their drive was only OF
few minutes duration, and they re-
urned to the hotel and repaired to
l,.s.a ,ter. Nra ~ lnf
cam was not yet ready, and the wife
bf the man who was watching the
horse came along on her way to mar
let. He told her to get in and she
6 Ould ride down to her destination. At
er letting her out he returned to the
1lotel, and the business man took his
lrive. When he came back he sent
he team TO the livery stable, and sup
posed that that ended the days diver
!. ii0n-but It was just the beginning OF
Not long afterwards the liveryman
vent to the hotel. met the daughter in
he hallway, held out a side-comb and
old her that she or her mother had
Ost it in the carriage.
"Wen, l didn't, for l don't wear
hem" said the daughter, "and don t
believe that mamma lost it, either.
However, I'll go up and ask her"
She went upstairs. and the livery
+ man, growing tired Of waiting for her,
and prosuming that the mother had
laimed the comb, went away.
When the husband repaired to his
apartments a little later he found a
warm reception awaiting him. His
wife showed him the comb and asked
MIN what woman he had had out driv-
Ing. In vain he protested his innO-
cence. The comb was found in the
carriage; it did not belong to her or to
the daughter; men did not wear such
things and hence a woman must have
been in the carriage or the comb would
not have been there. He did all that
he could TO smooth the matter over
but il was a sorry old treaty of peace
with more controversial scars on j
than the Berlin treaty bore after it haC
been consummated. He found that h
must giyV-somo satisfactory eXplana
tion of how that side-cOmb got in th'
carriage or rest under a cloud OF con
jugal suspicion for the balance of hi
days. Having a single brother wht
sometimes used the team, he brOacheC
the matter to him in the following
manner:
"Old man, I'm in a deuce Of a hole
The liveryman found a side-comb il
the carriage and took it to my daugh
ter, who gave il to my wife, and shl
will not be convinced that / did no
have some woman out riding with me.
"Well, what can / dO?' asked the as
tOnished brother.
"YOu can do everything" was th
reply. You go up and see her. Tell he
that you had your girl out riding ant
that she lest a side-cOmb and requested
youfto look in the carriage for it. Tha
you went to the livery stable and tina
the liveryman told you that he ha
found il and sent it up to her. Sh
will then present the comb and you CA
Identity it as belonging to your cir
and go off with It. Then my wife vii
ask my forgiveness, and everythin
will be all right"
The brother did as requested an
everything turned out as arranged.
cOntrite wife presented the comb {
her brother-inrlaw to deliver to hi
best girl, and the husband spent a
hour or two in congratulating himsel
upon his wonderful shrewdness.
But a new cloud arose. A little bo
came to the hotel and asked to see tn
shrewd mans wife.
please, ma am" he said. MANN
sent me up here to ask you if you sa-
anything of a side-comb in your cal
riage. Papa drove her down to mark'
while he was waiting for your husban
to take his drive, and while she wa
in the carriage one of her side-coml
fell out and she couldn't find it. weI
down to the livery stable and the ma
said he found it and sent it up to yo
1t was like this one"
The boy held up a side-comb whiC
was the exact counterpart of the OF
which her brother-in-law had so chez
fully carried off as belonging to h
sweetheart
Then she saw it all-the groundles
ness of her jealousy. the injusti,
which her husband had suffered at h,
hands, and the sef-sacrificing duplicit
of her brOther-in-law.
She may have seen this brOther-il
law since If she has the Wayfar
knows nCne Of the particulars Of Il
meeting. That he must leave to Il
hearts and understandings Of the rea
ers of his Note Book.