The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-22
HOW A MAN
MAILS LETTERS


Mrs. Blank gave her huoband fous
letters 10 mail for her the other day.
She is MT without knowledge Of the
usual way of a man with letter, but
hike every dutiful wife, she thinks her
better half is a little different from
everyones else, and that all rules fail
In his case, so she gave him these
epistles without a doubt that they
would ultimately reach their destinSs
tion.
Four days later Mrs. Blank came tv
Mr.. Blank in the most dreadful agita-
ton. Isn't Il perfectly awful?' she
said. 81 wrote inviting Sadie to como
to US for next Saturday and Sunday,
and hero this very morning in my mail
there's a letter from Alice saying that
she is coming. that she feels she
knows me so we'll she doesn't have to
wait for an invitation, and, besides,
she will be in this neighborhooo, and
she cannot go home withont sOeing
ps."
"weil% quetled Mr.. Blank, pr
tiently.
"Well, II It is well-Alice and Sa! a
do not speak to each other, and y
would be perfectly impossible to b Te
them here ct the same time stm
know how they quarreled about Nc
Henry, and, while i've never heard the
details OF the affair, I'm quite sure
ahey were each wTong-hut thcy
5oarhe and despise each othe :. Just
IKE they we're in vendetta, or one OF
those unpleasant Italian Blafk Hand
things"
what l admire about you" said
Mr.. Blank, slowly, is tho absolute
temperatures OF your Ian .uage. q
they loathe and despise ,ach other,
40 they? What's the ma tier writing
to Sadie and asking her 10 defer her
visit for another week."
For Alice" asked Mrs. Blank.
~never. She would be aurt to death,
and quite right, too. Whatever shah
I do?"
Mrs Blank leaned aer forehead on
her hand in despair and Mr. Blank
watched her in an amused silence.
cuddenly he had thought.
stay" he said softly to himself,
and began to search his pockets.
Mrs Blank looked up wide-eyed
Fiom the inside pocket of his coat
presently Mr.. Blank brought forth a
number of Letters. more than a won
an would have thought one small
pocket would mold. He sorted these
slowly while his wife quiyered witt
impatience, aud finally he selected one
from the bunch and held it out be
tween his thumb and finger. rs this
the cpistle you wrote Sadie?" he
asked.
"John!" cried Mrs Blank. falling OF
his neck You didn't mail it, did
you?"
Il forgot all about It." returned
Mr. Black.
What a blessed angel you are, dear
est, always doing the right thing az
tre right moment! You viii never
1 know what a load you have takeI
| from my mind. Now Alice can come
/ this week, and Sadie can come next
and all will be we'll / do think you're
sweet"
] MI DIAM oNllith a A7NNAAs1A aNNifh
tory smile. and seemed to grow IL
stature.
Ten minutes later Mrs. Blank haC
q thought. John Blank" she said
'let me see the rest of the letters il
that pocket"
Mr. Blank complied slowly, and he
looked nervous as his wife sorted
Them on her own account. There was
an ominous silence for several min
utes, and then the woman in the case
broke forth "One here for moth
err that should have been mailed {
week ago; one for my dressmaker
rery important, and explains probably
why did not get my gown Saturday
one ordering the new matting-John
I'll never trust you with another let
ter as long as l live; l think yol
are the meanest thingl"
Which," said Mr.. Blank later Il
himself, mikes a man in his min'
considerably"