Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-18
HIS Irish Wife
And a Daughter of the Revolution
Have a Seance
WHICH A POST REPORTER
Will Wrllo Up for the Globe When He Has limo
The Funny Experience Of a WeIl.KnOwn News
paper Man Who Rented a Furnished House for
Tho Summer and Who Was Locked Out Of
His 0Inng-ROOm BY the Land Lady.

II give you BOOQ STORY SAID q
wellknown newspaper man, until re-
Gently on the reportorial staf Of the
Post and at present the correspondent
Of a leading Philadelphia newspaper.
Thanks; shoot when you're ready"
oh, l will write it up myself for
you, as l am acquainted with the lit.
erature Of the case. In fact, to be hon.
est with you, it concerns myself, wife
and landlord, or rather landlady. It
is rich, or rather unique, and I think
will make a good story for The Globe. "
when will you furnish it?'
BY Thursday, sure. You see, it is
this way. l answered an advertise.
ment and had an interview with the
lady, Mrs. Harper. She had a furnish
ed house and wanted to rent it fur
nished for the summer as she was 60
ing away. The lady and 1 agreed upon
terms and my wife and self moved in.
OF course, | knew nothing of the &C.
centricities of my landlady, but
found them out as the sequel will
show Mrs. Harper is away up i'm so
AlNA9 AANAA lNl punt VI NAHMt ollt 10
a Daughter of the Revolution, and to
judge by her assumptions nobody has
any right to live I'm this country with
| out the permission Of one of the lodges
of this order. Those Of MS who are
! neither sons nor Daughters Of the Rev
Olution have any legal existence as
Americans that Mrs. Harper is bound
to reopect. ] was unaware Of all this.
Of course, or would never have moved
into her residence"
What happened?'
Plenty happened. You must know
that my wife. like myself. is Irish. She
is a typical Irish girl from the king
dom of Kerry, gentle as a fawn with
eyes as blue and clear as the Lakes Of
Killarney. My wife is new to some eX-
tent to American social life, but being
an educated Irish girl, she is rapidly
adapting herself to her new surround
ings and becoming assimilated, so to
spean. Well, we had settled down
some time in Mrs. Harpers residence,
and were feicitating ourselves on the
bargain we had made for the summer
when an incident occurred which has
almost unneryed my wife and leaves
me mad as a hornet yet. 1t occurred in
THIS way:
Mrs, Harper, during my temporary
absence, suddenly appeared at the resi-
dence and swOOped down on my timid
little Irish girl ike a Dakota blizzard.
She raced through the house, locking
doors and shouting Revolutionary war
cries which were, Of course, incompre-
hensible to my Kerry pearl / arrived
ON the scene in time to see Mrs. Harper
lock the dining-room door, utter her
triumphant war cry and order. with
The majesty Of the queen of Zanzibar
myself and wife from her premises
What did you do?'
For a time / did nothing but gaze
helplessly from the one to the other
/ finally rallied my scattered faculties,
as my scared colleen nestled close to
me for protection from the naughty
Daughter Of the Revolution, who stood
like Selkirk:
Monarch Of all she surveyed" in.
Guiding my rose Of Tralee.
Madam said l, in my richest and
softest brogue, what is all this?"
Get out Of my house. l do not want
you here any longer. 1 saw your wife
talking to that person next door, and
| will have nobody in my house who
talks to the person
After some palayer, | talking 90
words per minute and the Daughter Of
the Revolution 142 | ascertained the
cause of her indignation. It appears
the lady next door was persona non
grdtd with the Daughter of the ReYolu.
ton. My wife, being a neighborly and
sociable little creature after the man.
ner Of well-bred Irish girls, politely
met the advances Of her neighbor in
exchanging the salutations of the day
Sitting on her front steps, she eXchang
ed the courteous salutatiOns of her
neighbor and INDUCED i'm a few min
utes neighborly talk The Daughter
of the Revolution resented this inti-
macy, having either seen, discovered
or suspected IT, 1 soothed her rufIled
spirit and pointed out that had some
rights i'm the house, having made a
bargain with her for the summer
months That my wife was unaccus
toned to the ways Of the country, and
was excusably ignorant Of the fact that
Il was a penitentiary offense to return
the salutations of ones neighbors with
out permission from a Daughter Of the
revolution / mixed sarcasm, blarney
and legal rights in alternate doses, and
/ finally reduced her to go words per
minute, when / promptly unlimbered
my seige guns and forced her capitula-
ton by assuring her that until further
orders from herself or the nearest
lodge of the Daughters of the Revolu-
ton my wife should speak to nobody
but myself"
well, what neXt?"
when she capitulated, you mean?'
eyes"
"I demanded the key Of the main
fortress--the diningroom as my supper
was on the table and I was hungry as
Texas rabbit. She pointed majes-
tically to the door, where 1 perceived a
portion only Of the key in the lock.
In her fury she had actually broken
the key I'm the lock, and this effectually
separated me from my supper. After
skirmishing around to try and effect
an entrance, I was forced to secure
key elsewhere and, when my landlady
had left us i'm quiet possession and /
found myself In the diningroom my
McGillicuddy mountain flower wilted
and tainted In my arms | had copy
to prepare, was hungry, disgusted
and irritated, but when those blue eyes
opened and we both realized and took
In the situation, like a true Irish couple
we only saw the ridiculous side Of the
and we laughed ourselves
into Mysteries"
THAT certainly will make a beaut-
when did you say you'd write it upY
"I'll bring it down to your Office not
later than Tuesday. / think a touch
ing up will do no harm and may have
the effect Of inducing a train Of
thought i'm this Daughter of the Rev0-
luton which win ultimately crystalize
into a conviction that there are others