Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jogging Ills Memory


''''-, NV ave .lHNt~ i't'As fTlfN'AsAilN Aiit
copper market, in which lac was much
Interested.
"My dear said Mrs Lastruu. q 10
wish that could rely ON yosy to attend
10 such household matters - require
your attention"
MY dear" replied alr. Jastrmn
sharply lowering Tie paper III you
will name any especial matter rcquir-
ing my attention instend OF blaming
me beforehand shall be happy 10
obIise your'
Very well. wish YOU TO post a
letter Tor me Oh your way downtown"
do YOU call that household mat
ter? supposed YOU referred 10 lcal,
in tile roof or some plumbing or gas re
pairs. Indeed, you have made MS much
fuss about it MS ii YOU did. Ii it's only
Il letter YOU want posted | should SUI
pose YOU might have dispensed With
your structures"
"rhat's all | wish this morning" re-
piled Mrs. Jastrum in mn injured tone.
lust before MIR Jastrum departed his
wife slipped letter In the right hand
pocket of his overcoat He kissed her
pcrrncturily and went away, intend
ing when out Of sight 10 carry the let
ter in his hand that he might not FOR
get IT, but lie had no sooner turned the
| corner than lie met dickson. HickSon
/ asked him il lie had noticed the fall IN
the price of copper. Jastrum said that
he had. whcrcupon dickson said that
90, La lam.
ricd away TO his brokers' office and
,, gave him nm order to sell out his hold
ings IN copper ut once. Then he went
Ia his own office and hung up his over
coat, with the letter In it.
At in the evening Mr.. Jastrum
opened the front door OF his house ana
was greeted with the smell OF gas.
"Phew! My dear Betsy, hello.
Where are you?"
Up here, dcar,'
Mr.. Jostrun went upstairs and found
his wife sitting in her bedroom in her
fur cloak. with the windows open.
Good gracious" he exclaimed. talk
ing in the situation. "When did the
leak occur?"
IL noticed faint smell of gas this
morning us soon rs got up, but 1t
was in the cellar and not very strong
in the house. kept the cellar door
shut. but by noon the house was full
| OF it,
And why, may ask. didn't you tell
Inc So that could have notified the
plumbcri"
when the leak in the water pipe
! occurred | asked you 10 stop ut the
plumbers and send him right around
You forgot 1t, and the house was food
ed, spelling both the dining room and
parlor carpets, besides the ceilings OF
both rooms"
and out of revenge, to show your
"Not at MI. l'iuding could not
trust 10 your memory all the way to
the gas office. | concluded TO subject II
10 Il much less strain. Both the post
and gas Offices are very near yours
the postoilicc across the street, the gas
Office on the same block. l wrote you
Il note asking you TO go TO the gas
Office aud tell them TO send man here
at once"
And mailed the letter this morn
ingi"
Yes. There is mail box. MS you
know. just around the corner. The
postnan takes up the mail Mt 8 II. IN.
My letter was dropped in the box not
two minutes after yon left the house
this morning and should have been
handed you ON the IL o'clock delivery
Didn't YOU net itf"
Get It? No. Doubtless YOU thought
you put 1t in. but forgot Il. You're
always grumbling about my forgetting
to post your letters. while you are the
real delinquent. Nobody knows how
| many times you have claimed to have
given me letters to post that You hnYe
intcniad TO post yourself aud have for
gotten"
Did you post the one 1 gave you
this morning."
Jastrum looked dazcd for n moment.
then frightened. He thrust his hand
in his ovcrccat pocket and drew forth
the letter.
II met fIickson-iust after-I left
you." he stammered guilty land
he
Look at tie address"
lie did rs she asked and saw that
the letter was addressed to himself.
Read it,"
He tore Off the cover and read:
Tho gas is escaping in tho celier. Send
man at once.
Jastrum stood looking at the letter
long enough to have read two pages.
Isn't it plain:D asked his wife.
Without replying. he rushed down
stairs and out. slamniing the door he
hind him, intending to get n man to
do what lie didn't know how to do
hlmself-tnrn of the gas. His next
door neighbor came In with monkey
\ wrench and did the trick Jastrum