The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-20
A GOOD CAUSE FOR JEAL OUSY


There is young and rising lawyer
in this. town whose well-to-do wife is
at least ten years older than he is, and.
of course, jealous in ratio to her SUI
perior age. The rising young lawyer
is Jack" to few intimate friends and
Jackie to his wife, whose personal
pulchritude is several geographical
leagues from being phenomenal
Not long ago, in order to keep a bet
ter line on him, his wife had a tele-
phone placed in their home She was
thus enabled to ring him up every
twenty minutes and ascertain that he
was really at work in his office, in
stead of being off somewhere engaged
in riot and revelry at midday. Inside
of a week he had worn a faded track
in the carpet between his desk and the
telephone, answering her calls. She al
ways had what seemed to her some
pretty good excuse for calling him up
at these close intervals-with an in
ner, or an errand for him to do on his
way home, or a yarn about the bird
being sick and dropping in his cage, or
something of the like. But her fire.
quent calls wore on him a heap, all
the same, and caused his office boy
to litter every time the phone rang,
and his homely female stenographer-
~ AiSAo " SCI d llOlIlSly OIlG-lO gaze
out of the window with a VindictiVe
I'm glad she's keeping cases on
him. smile. After few days the ris-
Ing young lawyer tried to enter into a
conspiracy with the hello girl who
usually answered his home phone to
tell his wife, when she rang him up,
that he was busy; but the hello" girl
was compelled to duck at that deep,
dark suggestion, and told the rising
a Or nyyn1 l1a Il
out the intersection of sundry giggles
that she would be liable to lose her
job if she did that. Then the +. Y. law
yer tried to get away with the scheme
of sending his office boy to the phone
every time the bell rang, and telling
his wife, in case it were she at the
other end of the line, that he was out
This worked all right for fully half
day, but the scheme fell through
owing to the fact that at the very
moment when the office boy was tell
ing his employers wife, upon her TWEEN
tieth ring-up, that the lawyer was not
in, the young man of the law said
something in a high, argumentative
tone to fellow lawyer who happened
to be in the Office. The Office boy drop
ped the receiver in alarm.
Say, boss, she heard you," the Of
flee boy said to the r. y. lawyer, then
phone and tell his acrid- voiced wife
that he had just happened to come in
while the Office boy was at the phone.
1t was a pretty wabbly story, and
when he got home that evening, the at
mosphere was decidedly trapped. He
took to answering the telephone him
self, after that, as usual, and he's still
doing it, although the telephone got
him into a hopeless-l looking mess a
few afternoons ago.
A handsome young widow, in her Sec
ond mourning, client of the young
lawyers, was at his office to sign some
papers in connection with the settling
up of her deceased husbands estate,
and she had her pet King Charles
spaniel, named Jackie along with
her. She was exceedingly affectionate
toward the spaniel, and at every pause
in her conversation with the young
lawyer she bestowed a rataplan of
baby talk and hugs and caresses upon
the serenely unaprpeciative dog.
The handsome young widow was
caressing and making much over the