Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04

/ Of her face, while sorrow was depicted
In every feature Of his
Where do you suppose that came
from?"
zone OF his friends?"
Never In the world. 1t Is suspected
a girl hated the woman the man was
to marry. She was q large woman,
| but nothing like the picture. And he
was q small man, but not as minute as
the picture portrays him. They were
engaged TO be married when the enemy
of the girl began sending the pictures
to the man. For thirty days he awoke
to find one of the cards at the break
fast table. Back out? Well, not quite
that bad, but he was beginning to be-
leve there was a lot OF trouble ahead
, of him"
"stln engaged are they?"
"They are, and likely TO be married
But IL was the most cruel torture that
could have been inflicted upon that
poor fellow. The girl must have been
'corker,' to have squared all the
trouble that post card brought"
Looking. for the person that sent
the cards?''
"well, what that fellow will do to
the person will be sufficient. You know
what the penalty is?'
"No."
You can't fine a person more than
$4,000 and YOU can't send them to prison
for more than five years, but you can
do both. which would give anybody a
reasonable time to review the past"
The colonel ceased talking for mo-
ment and sought another post card.
There Is another trouble brewer" he
said.
Thereupun he brought one of the
most remarkable of the group to view.
II was Il simple picture, but one fraught
with trouble. A man and a woman
sat at the dining table. The room was
beautifully furnished and the table ex-
quisitey appointed, The silver had the
appearance of being solid and the glass
ware looked as II it had been cut by
hand. The thing that caught ones
eye, however, was lone dish that
stood in the center 1t was filled with
beans and above the dish was this
inscription: Daily meal-beans.'
Wouldn't that make woman fight
ing mad?"
1T certainly would
"Well, there's a woman on the south
side that has been receiving one of
these post cards every day for thirty
days. She's known as an excellent cook,
and some enemy has discovered this is
her weak spot. So what does this
enemy do but remind her every day of
the fact that she's starving her hus-
band, that she can't cook. Now,
wouldn't that make a woman fight?"
Apparently an answer wasn't eX
pected, for the inspector was digging
in his desk once more.
"Now here's one that would drive
young woman mad"
1t certainly would. 1t was the picture
IF OF bn
beach. 1t was a figure that no young
person would own even in the darkness
of her own room. The figure was
scantily clad, which gave the artist all
the more room for displaying lines that
We're angular and feet that were enor.
nous.
"One of the prettiest girls on the
south side is the VICTIM" the colonel
continued. she likely knows her figure
is nearly perfect and She has some
spiteful friend who dotes upon causing
her all the mental anguish she possibly
can. And then the line over the pic
ture.",
This is what was written thereon: "A
Remarkable Showing"
IF the girl woke up some fine MORN
| ing and discovered this thing in The
mail box she'd return to bed, have a
good cry and forget about it," the COL
onel commented. But to receive one Of
these every morning, that is the limit.
Don't you suppose those postal cards
caused that young woman many hours
of anguish?"
The colonel again drew a post card
from his drawer.
And here is one that came near driv-
ing a man crazy"
There was the pricture of the prize
fireman. The horns and the cloven
hoofs were there.
This went to a business man every
morning for almost a month. The per-
son sending these didn't send them to
the office. They went to the mans
home, where his children and his wife
would be sure to see them"
Upon the cards were the words: