Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-14

pocket and announced that he had e dered q carriage to convey than te and fro.
 But the sxpensel" sasped Mn Dew ger.
 Hang the expensel Nothing q toa good for my little wife"
 While Mrs. Bowser was dressing and nutterlng about the cook brought the stiletto again. It had been brightsnsd up and sharper point put to 1t.
 Take 1t and stab him to the heart the moment he grabs you by the throat,' she whispered. T have i've sisters and four cousins, all married women, and they go armed most of the time"
 But you are silly, Sarah"
 I'm Just prudent, ma'am. I'll leave it to any policeman on earth if Mir. Bowser is not a suspicious character the way he has acted today and if it isn't for you to be on your guard against him. How easy to throttle you in the carriage and throw your body into the street to be run over by the cars! Let me speak to him and tell him that unless he brings you safe home I'll have the hounds of justice pursue him for the rest of his life"
 But Mrs. Bowser decided to trust herself to the situation. It was . good play, and the theater was jam med. People elbowed Mir. Bowser, and he even begged their pardon for it. They stepped on his toes, banged him around and climbed over him, but be was ray of sunshine in rainy April day. Mrs. Bowser fairly lnnged for him 10 kick, but he wouldn't. He went right at it to enjoy the play, and, although it was tragedy, he laughed about once in two minutes an through 1t. People around him scowled and hissed and said that any man who would laugh at death scene ought to be thrown out of the house by the neck, but nothing that could ba said Tiled him. He just went right on laughing and saying that it was the funniest play he had seen for" forty years.
 When the finish came Mrs. Bowser expected to be taken right homs, but there was another surprise in store for her She was taken away to 8 restaurant and MT Bowser ordered lobster and champagne and other things regardless of expense. He said he was a happy man. He said that life was worth living. He said they would go to the theater every night in the week thereafter and he would order thousand Holsters and barrel of champagne sent up to the house next day. When the supper was ended and MT. Bowser was looking for the car riage Mrs. Bowser had the great good fortune to run across their family doc tor, who was also in the place for . bite to eat.
 "Oh, I'm so glad" she exclaimed as they shook hands.
 "It's about Mr Bowser?" he que ried
 "Yes Doctor. do you know
 Struck New Era.
 "I know all about it. I saw him on . the car when he went home, and was only four seats back of you in the theater tonight"
 You saw him laughing?"
 T did.'
 And he wouldn't kick at anything@
 II took notice"
 And this splendid dinner-what do you make of it?'
 You need not be at all alarmed. Mr Bowser has simply struck new era. All husbands do now and them " But how long is 1t going to last? I confess that I'm almost afraid of him. Y
 These eras sometimes last fifteen minutes and sometimes twenty-four hours Knowing MT. Bowser as I do, I should say that he'll be the same old Bowser when he wakes up tomor-5 row morning"
 And the doctor was right. Mrs Bow ser overslept herself by quarter of an hour, and what woke her up was Mir. Bowser saying as he hunted around the room for missing sock:
 By thunder. woman. you got up in the night and threw that sock out of the window just to spite me! The time has come when you and have got to have long talk together, and if It lands you in your mothers homo without aIimony don't you blame mo for itr' M. QUAD