The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-31
WHEN MADAME WAS AWAY.

w I1EN MADAME w Ao "A w AL
| A Woman Overhears the Plant of a
Man Whose Wife Was in the Coun-
| tlY.
Two men sat behind the vines of a Sc
| Guided veranda to smoke their after
dinner cigtrs the other evening. AS
! they smoked they grew confidential and
| told each other some secrets that We're
| burdensome to their comfort. A Wo-
man sat within the house. near VIM
| dow that opened on the Veranda, 1t
was warm night and the window was
| open. But the woman was supposed to
| be reading and the men forgot her eX-
| istence. Snatches of the conversation
| hoated in to her, and as the theme was
| particularly interesting to femininity
| the woman listened. 1t couldn't be
wrong, she argued, because one man
was her husband and the other was her
dearest friends husband. Their talk
amused and interested her so much she
told it to a friend and that person re-
peated it in newspaper Office and so
1t was a secret no longer.
The theme of the mems conversations
is not an unusual one in Buffalo this
month. Dozens of other men could
take part in it if they chose The dear
est friends husband was trying to keep
house while his wife and the children
were in the country for few weeks.
You know, Clifford, / can make
cup of coffee and broil a steak as well
as the next person, but when it comes
to washing dishes ! funk, that's ALL
How the women keep the dishes in
shape Is more than / know. Then it
beats all how untidy the bedroom gets.
| can't understand it, for I never had
any difficulty in keeping my shoes, ties.
collars and those kind of things in their
place before. | suppose I forget to put
them away now that I have the break
fast to COOK
The woman listening laughed, for
she knew all about certain bags and
boxes which her dearest friend had in
which she slowed away her husbands
soiled linen and handkerchiefs and
kept his neclSties straight. She remem-
bered. too, her friend telling her she had
left everything in apple pie order for
Herbert. Hell get along nicely" the
little woman had said, for the fiat is
in perfect order, there isn't soled ar
ticle anywhere and I've left supply OF
cooked things and have told the milk
man and baker to call every morning in
tipe for breakfast
TT wasn't so bad until 1 made my
first breakfast" the voice on the veran-
da went on, that was not a success, for
after / had made the coffee and put on |
the eggs sat down to read the paper a |
minute What's a minute when you |
want to find out about the situation in |
China and if the democrats have agreed
on their platform! But it was long |
enough for the coffee to boil all over the |
range and the eggs to get as hard as
bricks What coffee was left tasted |
queer and | hadn't time to wash the /
dishes. ! was sure ! had used only one |
plate and cup and saucer, but there
was enough for half dozen persons.
After tidied up the kitchen I thought I
I would look over the evening paper |
when j remembered I hadn't made my
bed yet I could have sworn burglars
had been In the room, for there were
more shoes and neckties and things ly-
ing around than | could wear in a
week. / couldn't begin to put them
away. Marion has one of those long
narrow boxes for my neckties and I
tried to straighten the things out and
put them away as / usually keep them,
but it took too long"
Again the woman on the other side
Of the window laughed softly, for she
her friend telling how
Herbert always. tried every pair of
shoes he owned before he could decide
which ones to wear and how his necktie
oox had to be tidied every morning as
as the bed was made.
1T Is two weeks now since Marion
went away" the man continued "and
hough | have written her that every
hing is all right and that enjoy
/ shall be mighty glad to
zee her back. Every dish in the house
vas used nearly week ago and / have
given up trying to wash more than the
olate and cup need for breakfast AT
er this / am going down town for
breakfast and | nm going to send for
he Washerwoman to come and clean UP
he house. ] told Marion it wasn't ne
'essary to have any one come in, that I
ould keep things going for a month all
light. Our fiat is SO small there never
eemed much to do, but either am too
,usy at the office or / haven't felt so
veil as usual, for this housekeeping
,eats me-"
You'll be glad when it is time for
our wife to come home eh?" said the
siend, as he knocked the ashes off the
nd or his cigar, and the woman who
stened made up her mind she would
write her friend that very night and |
ell her how glad Herbert would be to
ee her and the children-Buffalo Ex-
ress n
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