The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-23
stand a blow with his fist and ex-

by thunder, that man ought to be
sent up for lifeI"
What is ii? ?" asked Mrs Bowser
Its man in Chicago trying to a.
vorce his wife. He says he was hyp-
Noticed into marrying her. but she
| shows over a hundred love letters from
| him. By the way, that makes me
think. Did I write you any love let
tiers while we were engaged?"
[ Mrs. Bowser should have promptly
! lied about it and said no. She
ought to have known tnar nothing
| on earth will provoke a husband, no
matter how good he is like the
sight of one of his silly old effu-
on the contrary, she had carefully
saved every one and had a wifely as
we'll womanly pride in them. She
| therefore after moments hesitation
| answered:
'T believe you wrote me two or
three"
81 hardly think so. I was not one
of the mushy sort. After I had told
you that I loved you and wanted you
to be my wife that settled things. DID
I gush in any of the brief notes sent
your
Some of your brief notes were SIX
page letters"
NO, Never!''
'I can't say that you gushed. You
called me an angel and said you could
Mr.. Bowser flushed up and laughed
without mirth and asked to see any
such letter and added:
Come, now, let's see if I was as bad
as the rest of them. I'd take my dy-
ing oath that 1 never wrote a word of
| love. but perhaps I've forgotten. Just
bring down three or four of the letters
and we will laugh over them"
But youll-you'u ger mad"
Nonsense! Why should 1 get mad
81 Ill hot 11o fv-n ~
years ago"
She went upstairs after the letters,
and Mr.. Bowser felt a change taking
place within him. Before he was
aware of it he was glazing at the cat
| and wondering how he could take HIS
| life and escape detection. When Mrs.
| Bowser came down with three or four
! letters in her hand he laughed in ar
uneasy way and said:
/ Behold the proofs in your breach
of promise suit! Now, then, reac
away
"And you won't-wont"-
eco ahead"
well, here's letter beginning My
! little darling of blueben angel
IT deny that it begins that way!"
shouted Mr.. Bowser as the scarlet
| came to his face.
But you can read for yourself.
don't see why you should be ashamed
of it, Here is one in which you say;
Heaven has no angel compared to
thee If anything should happen to
YOU I'd hang myself within an hour
for life to me would be nothing.
"By the jumping Jericho. Mrs Bow
ser, do you want to make out that /
was the biggest ass in America at
twenty-three? he shouted.
"Of course not. You loved me. and
YOU talked and wrote like all young
men in love- 1t was awfully sweet and
nice Of you. In this letter here you
saw that you have not eaten or slept
for three days. 1 cried when L read
the words
at wrote that mushy stuff. did ?"
Eyes. and here you say that If we
should quarrel and 1 should look upon
YOU coldly you would blow your brains
sNever, Never in this living world
hid 7 write such stuff"
sfBut you can see for yourself. You
don't deny your own handwriting. do
your"
ters base forgeries!"
s'Why, dear, how can you talk that
way? If you were in love with me,
why shouldn't you write this way?"
Mrs. Bowser." he said as he rose
up in awful majesty. 81 planned for an
evening of happiness and content
ment. felt that you were true help