Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-09
TALES FROM ;, GREENLAND

tEe60 pY"t b OiN1nNsc0'NH
or-fT
The wife who, vuponsNaking In the morn
ing. insists uponlnarrating to her husband
lot Of connubial misery on the male side
She usually begins the Wild, seething bar
barrie chant when she'gs doing up her hail
and has mouth hall, flied with hairpins
Her husband is staring at the ceiling and
wondering how .1best 10 tackle that huge
job that reachedihis desk on the afternoon
before. when she commences something
after this wise; q 10,
1 dreamt that1 sawyou on nair-Wnlte
and half-gresn id sail decked out in 6
horse. You had a big scar on your lef1
cheek, and as you drew near to where
stood-I was dressed all in white, for. some
how or other, 1 could see myself just a.
plainly as l could see you-as you drew
near to where 1 stood the scar seemed te
be suddenly Illuminated like fire and
"Um, fire. groans the husband, tossing
In misery. THAT reminds me that we Tor
got to fix the kitchen fire when we came
home from the show last night, and ~ be,
it's gone out. and I'll have to get a bite OF
breakfast down town, I suppose
And, my, didn't you look hideousiy ugly!
she continues, without paying the sllghtes,
attention to his interruption. Il was 1us'
about to call you and to ask you why on
earth you were fixed up in that funny way
and riding through a dark rav1ne-l Iorgo'
to say that 1t was dark ravine-when you
looked up and saw me-. 'Har you shouted
at me in a voice that just makes me shivei
yet, false and faithless one, who hast
proved the ruin of four kings"
-Four kings?" mutters the man.
haven't seen the color of "a pair or kings
much less four of EN-, In so long that
wouldn't recognize 'em with a pair Of spy
gl-
"And then funny thing happened. AS
you came at me on that Notwithstanding
half-white and half-green horse, the whole
scene changed, and found myself alone on
raft in the middle of the ocean,"
GU nave mighty rapid-trans1t dreams,
growls the man. gloomily. "but when II
Genes to rapid-transit breakfasts for man
that's got work to do to- ,-.-.
Yes" she continues, as she gives few
little extra touches to her front hair. II
was quite alone on a frail raft, right In the
middle OF the sea, with not bit of land In
sight, and the heavens all covered over with
black clouds that hung very low, and, gra-
ciouS sakes alivei but l was cold
Il was pretty cold myself, just about
them, mumbles the man. woke up four
different times to pull the bed coverings on
after you'd kicked them off. Look here, my
dear, dye know that it's a quarter past 8,
and that I've got enough work hanging
over my head
And the big waves threatened every in
member thinking how useless would be.
in such situation, the few little swimming
strokes that you taught me down at At
lanttc City last summer My whole life
seemed then to come up before me. Then
new danger arose. A horrible monster
that l knew to be shark, from the pic
lures I've seen of them, stuck his awful
snout over the side of the raft, and whose
face do you suppose that shark had?""
Mine, of course, y replies the man, ris-
ing and sitting on the edge of the bed.
Whose else?'
II spoke to the shark, which was you.
you KNOW she proceeds. she goes to a
window with a hand glass to see If the cold
cream she rubbed her face the night
previous has had any miraculous effect.
and asked it-you. mean-what you were
doing swimming around in that cold water,
right in the middle of the sea, without your
heavy fiannels on-waSn't that funny? 1t
shows how thoughtful 1 am of you-but
you made no reply, but opened your jaws
back, and just then "a sailboat seemed to
come right up OUT of1the sea beside my
frail raft There was only one figure on the
sailboat. He was at 1he tiller. and how
thankful l was when l. saw that he was
now, whoein. the wide world do you sup
pose he WASP 81. +--
well, if he looked like human being,
III bet $l2 he wasn't me again." groans the
man, as he begins to get into his clothes.
Spose 1t mustyhaveB been that ass Of q
Willle-boy that used to call upon you be-
fore we we're"
HE wasn't Willie-boy, as you call it
at aH.' she says, warmly. HE was a nice
boy. from every tpOintt0f view, with no bad
habits. and he has certainly done well for
himself. You guessed, right. however Ii
was Tommy Moonface at the tiller, and
when he jumped off the sailboat on to the
raft and placed his arms around me-
Did. hey?"" groWls the husband. "Well
I'd just like to've heen there, that's all
I'd pick him up and break him in two
that's what I'd do With
But you didn't do anything of the sort. -
she goes on. somewhat maliciously. sas she
adjusts her side combs. "You just looked
frightened to death and disappeared in
the water. and all that 1 saw was big
fin on the surface of the waves, going SO
fast that" al. s
|. What, me run from Tommy Moonface
the snib.' scornfully calculates the hus-
band. "Ha! ha! you cause me mirth."
Then he goes over to where his watch Is
lying on the chiffonier and sees the time
Look here" he breaks out, do I get
cup Of coffee before going to the office
this morning or don't 1. that's what want
to know
She hurries downstairs to see after the
breakfast and finishes the narration Of the
dream at the tabfey while he Is trying to
get the glst of the headlines Of the morning
newspaper. '-s ...-