The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-10-09
UNHAPPY MIR. BLANK
PEDESTAL. OF RIGHT DOING HIS
BUT FOR A MOMENT.
Then Manifold Inquities of Hls For
aetfuIness Dawned With Telling
Force Upon His Bet
ter Half.

Mrs Blank gave her huSDanu loui
letters to mail for her the other day
She is not without knowledge OF the
usual way of a man with letter. but
like every dutiful WIFE she thinks hel
better half is a little different from
everyone's else, and That al! rules iaI
in his case, so Sic save I'm THESE
epistles without a doubt Tat they
would ultimately reach the.r destlna
ton
Four days later Mrs. Blan5 came TO
Mr.. Blank in the most dread IA aslta
ton. Isn't it perfectly a%tulF sho
said. Il wrote inviting Sadie to come
TO us for next Saturday and Sunday
and here this very morning In nay mai
there's a letter from Alice saying thai
she is coming, that she feels sAe
knows me so we'll she doesn't nave &c
wait for an invitation, and, besides
she will be in this neighborhood, and
she cannot go home without seeing
US"
"Well?" queried Mr.. Blank, pa
tiently
well, if it is well-Alice and Sadie
do not speak to each other, and II
would be perfectly impossible to have
them here at the same time. You
know how they Quarreled about Nc
Henry, and, while I've never heard the
details of the affair I'm quite sure
they were each wrong-but they
loathe and despise each other, just
like they were in a vendetta, or one of
those unpleasant Italian Black Hand
things"
What | admire about you said
Mr. Blank, slowly, lis the absolute
temperatures of your language. So
they loathe and despise each other,
do they? What's the matter writing
to Sadie and asking her TO defer her
visit for another week.
For Alice" asked Mrs. Blank,
never. She would be hurt to death,
and quite right, too, Whatever shall
do?"
Mrs Blank leaned her forehead on
her hand in despair and Mr.. Blank
watched her in an amused silence.
Suddenly he had thought.
Stay" he said softly to himself
and began to search his pockets.
Mrs Blank looked up wide-eyed
From the inside pocket of his coat
presently Mr.. Blank brought forth a
number Of letters, more than wom
an would have thought one small
pocket would hold He sorted these
slowly, while his wife quiVered with
impotence, and finally he selected one
from the bunch and held it out be-
tween his thumb and finger. rs this
The epistle you wrote Sadie?' he
asked
john" cried Mrs. Blank, falling on
his neck You didn't mail it, did
your
Il forgot all about it," returned
Mr. Blank
Mr.. Blank smiled a self-congratula-
tory smile, and seemed to grow in
stature.
Ten minutes later Mrs. Blank had
a thought John Blank she said,
"let me see the rest of the letters in
that pocket"
Mr.. Blank complied slowly, and he
looked nervous as his wife sorted
them on her own account There was
an ominous silence for several min
utes, and then the woman in the case
broke forth: One here for moth
er that should have been mailed a
week ago. one for my dressmaker,
very important, and explains probably
why | did not get my gown Saturday;
one ordering the new matting-John,
I'll never trust you with another let
ter as long as |. live; | think you
are the meanest thing"
Which said Mr.. Blank later to
himself, mikes a man in his mind
considerably"