Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-18
The RESOURGEFUL
HUSBAND
He AVoIds Ec,1g Caught In a Lie
to His wife.

This one month or so ago had to
go to Chicago. He was due to be alb
sent about two weeks. His younG
wife hated to have him go. They've
only been married year, you know.
Now, when he goes on business
trips, as he quite often does, this mar
always makes his wife. happy by max
ing great show Of taking her picture
along with him. Then when he's writ
ing to her from the place he goes tt
he writes about how the sight of hel
photograph on his dresser soothes hi
lonesome hours and Sc on.
Usually the last thing that he does
when packing his bag is to grab the
cabinet photograph of his wife, the
only one of the kind in the house unit
this thing happened that stands or
the mantel in the front room of the
fiat, and he stu2is it conspicuously ir
his bag while she looks on.
But when he arted for Chicago or
this last trip he was in such dead
rush that in packing he quite forgot
the photograph of his wife. He had
to hustle for the train, and so for the
first time he overlooked his little per
Torrance.
After he'd gone she noticed that
he'd forgotten the picture. But she
mentally excused him for forgetting it,
A day or so after her husbands ar.
rival in Chicago she received a letter
from him that amazed and shocked
her quite beyond expression.
In this letter her husband said,
among many other things not at all
germane to the point of this narrative,
that he was dcrivir all kinds of solace
and consolation from her picture,
which, as usual, he had perched on his
dresser, etc.
OF course, she had good reason to
be amazed and shocked when she read
that letter
Now, three or four days after his
arrival in Chicago he was writing her
another letter in which he started to
tell her about the joys and delight he
was extracting from the sight of her
picture on his bureau-when a sudden
wave of memory overwhelmed and
stunned him. He suddenly recalled
that he didn't have the picture with
him at all
He thought it out for a minute
Then he went right ahead and finished
the letter to her about how much con.
ISOLATION, ETC., he was finding in the
picture of her. And he mailed the let
ter.
His way out was this:
He is well acquainted personally as
well as in business way, with the
photographer who had taken that pic
ture of his wife. And so, Immediately
ne wired to the photographer here in
New York, instructing him to make
instanter, print of that photograph
of his wife-which the photographer
knowing the wife, too, could quickly
identify-and to fire it along by spe
cial delivery to Chicago.
The photographer here in New York
fired 1t along to the resourceful one in
Chicago, who went out and bought an
elaborate oval gilt frame for it.
He knew that his wife would
imagine when he got back home that
she had him, and that she would have
a little sadness about her, and SO on
And he had that end of it correctly
prophesied. She had meant to restrain
herself, but when he flung his arms
about her on entering the fiat she col
lapsed from having worried, and fell
to weeping.
He, of course, with wide eyed gaze
of utter innocence, asked her what on
earth could be the matter.
ooh, tito t-t-think," she gasped.
"t-t-that you could t-t-tell me
s-s-story!"
"Story?" said he, winking sagely al
himself in the mantel mirror over her
shoulder. Say, look a-here, little one.
what's this all about, anyhow? What
story? What on earth are you talk,
ing about?"
"W-w-why,'' she gasped between her
sobs, about Mummy p-p-p-picture-
me that you were
l-Llooking at it every n-n-night. and
you d-d-didn't have it with y-y-you at
on the b-b-bureau this MN
Then he pushed her away from him
and regarded her with an expression
of lofty and wounded sadness.
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my little one" he said to her in
that injured, abused tone, my dear, do
you really mean to say that you could
think me capable of that-me?"
"B-b-but. J-J-Jim, dear" she sobbed
"the p-p-picture is on the b-b-bureau
E-r-right n-n-now, and"
For reply he put his bag ON top OF
the dining room table, opened it, and
there right on top Of the clean linen
and beautifully wrapped about in a
white silk mufier was her photograph.
Dearest" he said to her, didn't I
tell you when you came back from
the country last summer that had
another print Of that photograph made
lust for carrying away on business
rips and that got this frame for Il
Y a.. A.