Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-17

the day would be clear, took down his
the temperature was too high for this
garment he dumped it into the Nor
ris chair and made a hurried exit
from the house, tossing couple of
soiled handkerchiefs on the divan as
he went out of the door.
For the first time Mrs. Lawrence
surveyed this scene with satisfac'
ton Nothing could be a better OBJ
ject lesson for her husband than the
fiat in its present condition. She de-
cided to do the breakfast dishes and
the leaving for her sisters house.
She preferred that her husband
should face the confusion alone on
his return.
In the course of an hour she set
about dressing for her visit. She had
to put away some of the neckties in
order to find her toilet articles. She
was obliged to put the collars in the
drawer so that she could make the
bed. The clean shirts which had
been rejected in favor of the one
which Lawrence wore that morning
could never be left on the window
seat, for a shower might come up and
soak them. The laundry was paid for
out of the house pocketbook, and 1t
wouldn't be good policy to be so ex-
travagant in this reforming business.
Before she realized it, the bedroom
was quite neat and free from the orig
inal appearance of disorder. She up
braided herself and then reflected
that the parlor and dining room would
be bad enough to teach the desired
lesson. She had to take the hat and
raincoat off the sewing machine in
order to sew up a rip in her skirt and
really the easiest thing to do was to
hang them up to get them out of the
way.
When she left the house there were
just three of her husbands belong
ings still misplaced-the two hand
kerchiefs and the new topcoat. This
last would be an awful example to
him, for it was in nice little heap in
the seat of the chair and would wrin-
kle beautifully.
Mrs. Lawrence made a long days
visit and returned home at $50 in
the evening Lawrence was due home
at and his wife thought how touch
ing the scene would be when James
should take her in his arms and say,
Dearest, / see the error Of my ways.
Never again will be so careless.
She didn't know whether to say,
Darling, forgive you" as her heart
would prompt her to do, or to re-
mark coldly, 81 hope you will remem'
Der this lesson" as Sarah Jane Hutch
inson had suggested.
She walked into their apartment
and looked about anxiously. There
wasn't a soul in sight. The coat was
still in its reformatory heap. The
mail was untouched. Evidently James
had not returned! After all, it would
be rather fun to see just how he
took it,
At Z o'clock she heard the familiar
sound of the latch key in the door.
Then in walked James with two mem
bers Of the firm whom he had brought
home to dinner.
Mrs. Lawrence was excited. She
hurriedly made the Morris chair
ready for the corpulent senior men,
Der and flung the new fall overcoat
on the bed. James followed her out
to the kitchen and demanded a hurry
up dinner. He had to go that eve
ming with the two men to put through
an important business deal.
He rushed out after dinner with
the men, and Mrs. Lawrence had the
evening to herself. The coat wor-
ried her. Really, men have so much
to do that it is hard for them to
think of little things. She hung up
the wrinkled garment penitently. The
next morning she smuggled 1t down
to the tailor's to be pressed, using
the money that she had saved out for
the matinee.
Lawrence never knew how narrow
ly he escaped being reformed.-Chi
cago Daily News.