Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-20
SAVES HER HUSBANDS LIFE
Economy and self-SncrInce of wife
Rewarded with Bunches
of JOY.

On the day after she reached the coun-
try with the children she wanted to tele-
graph to her husband-whom she had left
parboiling in Washington-that she had
thoughtlessly left some Of her money be-
hind. and to have him forward II to her
by registered mail.
Now, there never was a woman yet thAs
would send a telegram OF more than ten
words unless the circumstances were eX-
traordinary even II ell words beyond ten
words were only tariffed at the rate OF a
mill a word.
In order to properly convey her meaning
to her husband the shortest message pos
sible, after all sorts OF deletions. would
have been about as follows:
Forgot part Of money. In bottom third
drawer chlfonier spare room, beneath
! shirts. Send Immediately registered"
Here, however were sixteen words.
She bit the end OF her pen in the tele-
graph once over the problem and screwed
up her forehead and dabbed at her face
with her moist handkerchief, and was in
! a sad stew over the thing
But wild horses wouldn't have forced her
beyond the ten-word deadline. Women are
instinctively against all sorts Of corpora
! tions. but their objections TO hurting a
single penny more than necessary into the
| Golfers Of a telegraph company Is a rooted,
/ elemental passion. * 90.
So, after much heated worry. she crowded
! II down this way:
Left money in bottom OF third drawer
! chiffonier spare room"
! That made a pat ten words, and she
sent the message on blissfully believing
that she'd receive registered letter on
the following morning.
Her husband was sitting in the dining
]
! ceived the message. He had sat into a
small game on the previous evening. and
when It was all over he was counting
on the ends OF his fingers the days 10
/ elapse before the next walking OF the dis
/ bursting clerks ghost.
The receipt OF his wife's telegram had
found him specializing upon what sort OF
delirious riot II would be possible for him
| to engage In that evening on a cash capital
OF II cents, and his negligee shirts sim
unredeemed from the laundry around the
corner.
He tore UP the stairs three at a clip
! when he had read the telegram, and when
his prowling hand had brought up from
the third drawer OF the spare room chif-
fonier the little bundle OF s54 mostly in
one and two-spots. he experienced a sem
sation OF genuine emotion.
Wei, she's a good girl" said he to
himself. What other woman would have
been so thoughtful? She just had pre-
monition that I'd be broke and she took
the trouble TO go down to the dinky coun-
try telegraph once and wire me where I'd
find this little stack OF the papers. She's
the best ever. that's what she H. and
when I get the time I'm going to sit right
down and tell her that in my opinioa
she's the hull works and the running gear.
why. the ideA-hfty -four! No, shall not
do a single, solitary thing with IT, and
then he shaved and prettled himself up
and Jared forth and hguratively kicked a
few stats out Of his favoTite suburban
resort, dwelling smoothly az intervals upon
the lovely thoughtfulness OF his spouse
However, he received a few terse lines
from the country a couple OF days later
Washington Star.