The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-28
The RES0URCEFuL
HUSBAND
Ne Avoids Being Caught In a Lie
to His Wife.

|
This one a month or 50 ago had tc
go to Chicago. He was due to be alb
sent about two weeks. His young
| wife hated to have him 60 They've
only been married d year you know.
Now, when he goes on business
| trips, as he quite often does. this man
| always makes his wife happy by max
ing a great show of taking her picture
| along with him Then when he's writ
ing to her from the place he goes &c
he writes about how the sight Of heI
| photograph on his dresser soothes his
| lonesome hours. and so on.
Usually the last thing that he does
| when packing his bag Is to grab tbs
cabinet Photograph OF his wife, the
only one Of The kind In the house until
| this thing happened, that stands on
| tt9 Maltci ia the front room Of Tie
fiat and he stuffs II con leHoNslg u
his bag while she loois On
But when he started for Chicago on
this last trip he was in suc,l q dead
aush that in packing he quito forgot
the photograph Of his wife he had
to hustla for tho train, and 50 for the
FIRST tino be overlooked his little per-
formance,
After he'd gone she noticed that
he'd forgotten the picture, But she
mentally excused him for forgetting 1t.
A day Or so after her husbands IT.
rival IA Chicago she received d letter
from him that amazed and shocked
her quite beyond expression.
In this letter her husband said
among many other things not at all
gcrmane to the point Of this narrative.
that he was deriving all kinds Of solace
and consolation from hor picture,
which, as usual, he had perched On his
dresser etc
OF course, she had good reason 20
tc amazed and shocked when she read
that letter
Now, three or four days after his
arrival in Chicago no was writing her
another letter In which he started to
tell hes about tho joys aad delight he
was extracting frun the sight Of hes
picture on hts bugcail~ when a sudden
wave Of nemoiy overwhelmed aad
stunned him lie suddenly recalled
tkat he didn't have the picture with
him at ALI
He thought it ont for minute
Tnon he went right ahead and finished
the letter to her about how much con
ISOLATION, etc he was nnding in The
picture Of her And he mailed the lot
ter
Ills way out was this:
lie Is wen acquainted. personally rs
well rs in a business wav With the
photographer, who had taken that pie
ture Of his Wife And 50. Immediately,
he wired to the Photographic here in
New York, instrneting him % .Gl..n,
instaatof, a print Of that photograph
of his wifc-which tho photographer,
knowing the wife, too could quickly
identify-and to fire II alcng b. spc.
cial delivery to Chicago
The photographer here In New York
fred It along 10 the regourceful 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 homo that
che had him, and that she would have
a little sadness about her. and so on.
And he had that end of it correctly
prophcsied. She had n;eant 10 restrain
herself, but when he flung his arms
about he. on entering the fiat she coll
lapscd from having worried and fell
to weeping
lie, of course, with wide eyed gaze
of inter innocence asked her what on
Garth could be the matter.
"Oh, tito t-tthink," she gasped.
"t-tthat ycu could t.ttell me
s-s-storyw
Story?" said he. winking sagely at
himself in The mantcl mirror over her
Say. look a-here. little one.
what's this al about, anyhow? What
story? What "a earth are you talk.
ing about?'
"Wwwhy." she gasped between her
sobs, about mummy p-p-ppieture--
wr-wr-writing me that you were
l-l-looking at It every n-n-neht. and |
you d-ddidnt have It with y-y-you at
all-it's on the b-b.bureau this nm |
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-Iim. dear" she sobhed.
the p-p-piciure is on the b-bbureau
r-r-right n-nnow, and"
For reply he out his bag on top Of |
the dining room table. opened Il. and
there right on top OF the clean iinea 4
and beautifully wrapped about in
white silk muller was her photograph.
Dearest. he said to her. didn't
tell you when you came back from
he country last summer that | had
another print OF that photograph made
Just for carrying away on business
trips and that ] got this frame for II.
md that put it in the bottom Of my
grip a. soon as ] got Il SOS ia be