Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-10-27
THE WIDOWS DECISION.

ton. Trains were going in and out; the
cars started empty and came back more
or less well filled.
st. Thomas was the station master.
| chattcd with him, and he very civilly
explained the working Of the system.
The trains" said he, start from the
Earth, touch at He'll, touch at Purgatory,
and have their terminus in Paradise We
are very crowded just at present. For
the last few months there has been a
constant increase in the number of pas
sengers for Paradise; every day there is
a demand for more cars. Smallpox has
something to do with it, but the revival
of faith has more. You can Judge for
yourself. All, seventeen. The express is
due. Do you hear the whistle? | want
you to observe the incoming train. You
see we have three classes of cars, first,
second and third; Il baggage ear and COM
partment for dogs. The passengers are
ahghting; watch them. Not many people
in the second class cars; we don't recruit
much from the lower middle class-they
are restless. NOltairean ana free thinking,
the lower middle class. In the third class
cars we get crowds. The populace is
wholly bad or wholly good; but general
ly speaking, good. The first class cars
are crowded, too. Rich people are adj
mirably facilitated for achieving saliva
ton. Their time is their own, and even
admitting that they give Satan the best
part of their existence, they always find
an hour here and there, from time to
time, to make up their religious negli-
gences. Only stay here two or three
days, you will see half Il hundred trains
come in, and there cannot fail to be peo-
pie that you knew i'll some of them.
You'll see how easy it is to win Heaven"
ST. Thomas was a communicative
saint. He chartered away, but for the
last few moments of his discourse | was
not listening. | had seen the face of that
twice widowed little beauty, Jeanne,
Countess de Charmelieu, first my friend
Gaston's wife, then my friend Armand's
wife. l had seen her united to Armand
at st. Clotilde's church and | remem-
bered hearing the priest say: There
fore be united on earth until you are
cternally united in Heaven" and here |
saw her at the window of parlor car;
then, light and dashing she sprang out
of the car, showing her ankles a little,
but then they were very trim ankles.
She ran about in every direction, chirp-
ing, Where's Paradise? Where is it?
| have my ticket"
st. Peter went to her and said:
Your ticket, madame? VIII you be
kind enough to show me your ticket?'
Here it is, sir"
Perfectly correct; you may 90 in.
Here are the gates of Paradise"
My little friend bower prettily and
went in. An intense desire possessed me
to follow her into Paradise. Who could
tell? Perhaps Armand was dead, and
my widow would find herself confronted
by two husbands. | asked St. Thomas
if he could manage it so that | might 90
in.
Easily" he replied.
Only for an hour, you know | hast
cned to add "But-shall | be able to
go away again? For you know. however
delightful Paradise may be, if | have
few more good years to spend on earth |
don't care to miss them. Life is only for
a time and Paradise is for all eternity"
Don't be afraid. They'll let you out
Come with me-" And he led me to St.
NNti. NAME a lOiC VI AiiiS SeiilClldll.
he said to him. "ITe is visitor-he only
wishes to 90 i'm and look about and come
out again
Pass in, sir; pass in. | shall know
you again
There | was iii Paradise, and in the
| nick of time. Armand and Castor. who
had been scanning the passengers as they
arrived, had already rushed to their wife
! .nG 81 l4,I f,1- l.
drew her on that side, saying:
Jeanne, my dear Jeanne!"
Armand had taken her left hand and
drew her ON that side, saying:
! Maud. my dear Maud"
She had two Christian names, and If
had seemed in better taste to her. in the
intimacy of married life with her second
/ husband, not to be called by the same
name the first had made use of. She was
an adorable being. replete with delicacv
! OF feeling. Armand and Castor mean
time showed no intention of giving up.
"Jeanne!l"
Maud"
Il am your first husbandl"
Il am your second hushandr
My rights are incontcstable!"
Sir, release this lady.'
II have nothing to say to Won. sir
do not know YOU"
He didn't know him! Why. they were
intimate friends ON earth. when they
were alive called each other by their
first names, couldn't live without each
other. Armand. the second husband. al
most lived at Gaston's house. so much
that gossip said-but where should we
all be il what gossips said were believed.
It, Thomas had come within the gates
LOT Paradise when / did.
This must often occur" [ said TO him.
\ great many women on earth have
two husbands"
Very true. the novelty is that the hus-
bands should claim their wife. General
~ under these circumS stances. each bus-