Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-08
SHE ROUTED THE BURGLAR.

| My wife seems to have solved the problem of protection against tramps and burglars" said the man who lives l in the suburbs in tones of justifable pride, land I'm not sure but other wo- | men who are more or less alone might take hint from her. Certainly her method showed some ingenuity and a I genuine feminine adaptabflity of means to ends.
 | Our house is pretty well fitted up with electricity and modern convenient ces, but it is quite distance from the nearest neighbor, and there's no deny l ing that it is bit lonely during the day. So my wife has the habit of 1 locking the outside doors when she is busy about the house. The other morning she heard a knock at the door, and it was a knock of decidedly strenuous character.
 Instead of opening the door my wife went to one of the side windows and peeped through the curtains to see who was there. She saw tramp, and tramp of a rough appearance at that. So she made up her mind that she would not open the door, thinking that Eprobably he would get td'ed of knock iHS dHu SO away
 But this little plan didn't work the \ way she hoped. Instead, MT Tramp evidently supposed that there was no one in the house and that he might take the chance of breaking in and trying to steal something for future reference. He gave the door couple of hard kicks. That didn't work Then be cooly reached into his back pocket, drew out short chisel and set I to work in real earnest
 For moment my wife was pret- l ty badly scared woman. It was only l n question of time, and short time at that, when the door would give way. Then the tramp would enter What would he do next? It was question to make lonely woman mighty nerv- ous.
 But my wife certainly has more than her share of ingenuity. Tn this emergency she remembered that an lncandescent electric light globe ex- plodes with considerable noise when I It is broken So she went through the house and unscrewed dozen of the incandescent light bulbs. Then she took her stand directly above the door the tramp was working at, push A -P sA.N, " SoAtiy duu began uoF bombardment
 That was about all as far as MI Tramp was concerned. The first bult was aimed at his head. It missed his face by half an inch, struck the chis. el he was holding in his hand and ex ploded with report like a pistol shot Then the rest of the miniature glass
 bombs began exploding in all direc tions around him.
 He didn't wait to investigate. He struck right out for the high road. his
 coat-tails flying at right angles behind : him, his feet hitting the ground at g swift pace the worst frightened tramp in that part of the state. A sud den and unwelcome introduction to ar earnest, energetic bulldog wouldn't ! have scared that tramp half as much
 "After it was.all over my wife broke
 down and had good cry. But she soon got over her fit of nervousness
 and when came home she was feel ing mighty proud of her achievement
 Now she Is quite heroine in our dis trict. All the women in the neighbor hood have laid in supply of these bulb bombs, and the next tramp that tries to break into. house will think ) he has gone up against miniature
 Santiago.
 Tt certainly takes a woman to dis cover the real purposes of modern in
 ventions," added the suburbanite thoughtfully.-New York Press. " tN#