The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-31
HENRY WAS IN ERROR.
Being an Honest Man, However, He
IL Now In a Sad State of Mind and
Is Hoping Unavailingly TO Repair
the Wrong He Did.


IL Now In a sad State of Mind and
Is Hoping UnavaiIingly TO Repair
the Wrong He Did.
81 met your husband looking rather-er
sad this morning" observed the girl in
the tailor made gown. "He did not seem
to see me, but then he has not been mar
RED long enough to cease comparing the
rest of us with you, to our disadvantage,
SO | was not greatly surprised. BY and
by he will know
THAT he must not expect to find my
equal? Very true" said the bride. Still,
1t is handsome Of you to say SO, l am
sure"
II didn't quite say that, dear. What l
meant to say was that he will know too
much Of feminine human nature before
long to expect perfection. Was he i'll to-
day?
HE was not" replied the bride. "He
was Oh, Marie, you didn't see any
horrid policeman speak to him, did your"
mercy, mol What on earth put that
into your head2 He hasn't killed any
body, has heg"
HE has not. He used to threaten TO
shoot every man that-er-was in love
with me, but
But, then, he was always an imagina-
tive person. Yes, l know. He once told
me that you were a beauty"
"That Is nothing to what he has told
me, dear. Look here, Marie, know you
can keep secret, because you would
never tell a soul how much you paid for
that pink hat of yours, so don't mind
telling you that IL went down town
with Henry last evening"
as that a secret, dear? oh, see-you
had promised to dine with his mother.
and your headache was better as soon as
it was too late to go. or course ! won't
tell. may have a mother-in-law myself
some day, and
"Need assistance! Mimi 1t wasn't that,
however We are to dine there tomor-
row, and unless Henry feels better in the
interval i shall defer my headache for
another time. No; we had nothing spe-
eial ON hand, so we just went out for a
little fresh air. Now, Henry says IL
have fault 1t is my habit of carrying my
poeketbook in my hand"
"Humph! He might know that wo-
man who carried her money in her pock-
ct like a man would be so unfeminine
that she would be actually dangerous"
$50 he might; but, then, Henry is only
a man after all, dear. or course he is the
best of his sex, but even then he
Twill bear watching. OF course he
will. Go on. Did you see an adorable
hat in a window, coax him TO let you
have it on the spot and then find that the
store was closed? II you did, you need
not expect TO get 1t today. Even a man
who has only been married three months
has learned to change his mind, so"-
sSN1fkfax ~ l-ind - uOtA thu Iftla
bride, with much dignity, 1--WE merely
went for fresh air. IL had rather buy a
hat when Henry is not present. He-he
admires me so much that he thinks
look as well in hat that costs $40 as in
one priced $50. There was n dreadful
crowd in the car, and we had to stand,
so wedged in that l could hardly tell my
own shoulder from that Of the woman
WHO stood next me-"
"And Henry behaved as IL it was all
your fault? | see."
HE did not. He was in the gayest of
humors when we got out. He acted as
he always does when he thinks he has
joke on me-"
"Oh, well, why not just laugh when he
does? He will explain the joke IL you
seem not to understand 1t, and that Is
worse than
sit is. He said nothing until we got
home. Then he asked me, in triumphant
tones, where my pocketbook was"
j., "And you couldn't remember l see."
81 could. / said up stairs in my drawer.
and when he laughed as IL he did not be-
lieye me l remembered that had only 81
In 1t and brought it down to show him.
You should have seen his facet"
"Was he enraged that you had spent all
your money! Or
HE was not. He pulled out another
feminine pocketbook. looked at it in
dazed way aud said. Then. whose pocket
book is thisP
"But l don't see how
Neither did | until he told me. He
he thought to teach me a lesson. and he
reached over while we were in the car
and slipped il, as he thought. out Of my
hand. And, Marie"
"Oh, my goodness, yes"
"He-hs has been wondering ever since
whose pocketbook It wasl Do-do you
think they will do anything very bad to
him IL they find it out2"-Philadelphi
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