The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-31
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Answer Hypothetical ou2stio1s.
NO Matter; Who May ask
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I 4 want 10. put q EyrbiAetfaafsddes.
|, ton to YOU" said tha ksettg gill, after
the man had picked, oatlttie most com
iJfortable chaaf%'fn the room and had
seated hlmself therein, 1T is as Ions
and as complicated as some of the
questions propounded by lawyers in
criminal trials. but | think YOU wal lie
able to follow its intricacies.
Suppose you were a woman me,
for example-and suppose two other
women visited you the same evening
They were strangers to each other and
came and went separately, Suppose
that after they had gone you noticed
an umbrella which had been lett pre-,
sumably by one of your callers. Sap
pose the next morning Miss A. tel.
ephoned you and asked Ii she had lett
her umbrella at your house, that she
had left it somewhere. she, couldn't
just remember whore, but she believed
IL was at. your house. - WIS 1t ?GYon
said 1t was and Miss A-7rr- said she
would send q boy right around to set
It; she had just learned that she
would have to leave the city for quite
a while and would you kindly give the
boy the umbrella?
Suppose the boy came and you gave
him the umbrella, and then, little
later Miss b came rushing in and
asked for her umbrella. which she had
left at your house the night before
her umbrella, mind you, the very one
you had just sent TO Miss A. but
which Miss B swore she could
positively prove TO be hers: you'd he
In something of pickle by that time,
wouldn't YOU?
Well suppose that to clear the
matter up you rushed around to Miss
As hoping to recover the una.
brella. but found that both she and
the umbrella had already gone. Then
you rushed around home again, TO find
Miss B pacing up and down your
room wondering what on earth she
should ever do. because 1t was begin
ming to rain cats and dogs, and she
had dozens of places to go that day
and would certainly get soaked to the
skin and maybe catch her death OF
cold because. she had no umbrella;
because you--you, the careless mon
ster--had given hers away to some.
body who hadn't the shadow of a right
to it; you'd feel pretty desperate by
that time, wouldn't you?
Well suppose that to relieve the
situation still further you offered to
replace Miss BIS umbrella. The
substitution wasn't your own umbrella,
but one that another friend had left
at your house short while before. a
most excellent umbrella. best of silk
and q beautiful handle; much better
no doubt, then the one Miss b had
lost. Would that be fair? Would you
have moral right to square yourself
with one person by giving her the UNI
breila that had been left at your
house by somebody else?"
Right" exclaimed the young man.
why, certainly An umbrella is com.
mon property. The courts have de.
cided that. II a man leaves an um.
breila any place he has no right to ex-
pect ever to see 1t again"
? "Oh, | am so glad" murmured the
pretty girl.
But what is the end of all this
hypothetical inquisition?" asked the
man, What is it leading up to-"
ooh, nothing" said the girl Lets
talk about something else" -
They did talk about something else
for three hours. When the man
started home, he said:
"Oh. by the way, where's my UNI
hrella? left 1t here the other night,
didn't -"
you did," said the girl. sweetly
1T was your umbrella that took to
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