New Ulm review., 1913-09-24
Bold Intruder / ! i
Enjoys Comfort
Stranger Enters Summer
Kitchen, Builds Fire and
Toasts Shins.

Ion Departing He Appropri-
ates Clothing Of Un-
knowing Host.
How would you like it If, upon
rising from your warm bed one of
these frosty mornings to build q.
warm fire in the kitchen stove, to
find, upon entering the business end
of the house that someone for the
moment at least unknown to you
had "beat you to il" to use popular
il somewhat slangy phrase? OF
course you would not mind, but
II, after looking around to find
Ithe mysterious benefactor, you should
Inotice that he had, after doing you
the favor of lighting the fire, de-
parted with some of your very neces-
sary cold weather duds as rather
exhorbitant fee for his services, and
that a more or less valuable but
nevertheless indispensable butcher
knife which the mistress of your
home had priced highly had SEEM
;ngly disappeared simultaneously
with the party who had made himself
comfortable at your fireside, would
you still wear q smile
After carefully perusing the above
preamble, you will be better able to
imagine the CONSERVATION and the
surprised look depicted in the coun-
tenance of Mrs. Anton Adam, who
resides with her family in their home
adjoining the Cottonwood Roller MILL
Saturday morning when she arose
to build q FIRE and prepare break
fast for her son, Otto, who is em-
ployed at the Hauenstein brewery
Mrs. Adam went out to the summer
kitchen, which stands q short dis
tance away from the house, and up
on entering the structure noticed
that a fire was burning briskly in the
stove. To say she was surprised is
expressing the situation mildly She
knew that no member of the family
had built the fire, as her husband
and sons were sleeping soundly when
she left the house. 5
1t did not take her long toafarnn-s
ulate definite suspicious, for when
she glanced at the place on the wall
where her sons, Richard and Otto.
were accustomed to hang up their
outer garments, she noticed that &
fur-lined overcoat, cap and hal.
were missing, and when she looked
for her butcher knife it was nowhere
to be found. With true Sherlock
Holmes instinct she reasoned it out
that someone, suffering from the chill
~ atmosphere, had entered the sum-
mer kltcnen, having noticed that
among other things it contained
stove; and had made himself COM
1ortable after building warm fire,
and had then departed with the mis-
sing articles.
Mrs. Adam naturally told her hus-S
band and her sons about the sing
ular occurrence and the matter was
discussed at length at the breakfast
table, each member of the family Of
fering suggestions as to who the
guilty party might be.
After nar+akino of b;s n,orn;nr
meal otto Adam lott for bic nnrls
his thonuhts hmsv with nns.;h1oa M " ci,,as
Whereby the boIa ;ntrndor anJ th;ef
miobt Re annrehendad Ho ,,,as la;s
ureiv waIt;pr alonC wben ms nro,,
raa ach;na Hmnfers; Ras+ IL s,,dda.,i,r
came unon "Waarv W;,,;aU VIII
had bu;}t a fro and wae nranar;,," W" y
scantv hreaLfast M depe s4eog
stock still and caraf,ilu r,,hha5 h;s
pves for ha could hs,dl,, hal;ama
tIat he WAS awaLe Tha s+renea
was WEARING bic I0++o,sS f,r I;sed
me surprlsed young man lost no
mrn;nn - tha % fag,;i,, s ha,ea ps ,,hn daa r.
promptly informed his father az
What he had seen. Father and SON.,