Year: 1879

Serious Experiences of p. Il. Who Re-


mained Out at Night Beyond tho Allotted


Time-Caught in Trying to Do the Tran


som Act.


That the average st. Paul wife is an emf
nently sensible woman there is not the remotest
reason for doubt, and the manner in which the
better-half of a prominent government official
cured the tendency of her liege to remain down
town after certain hour in the night may be
worthy of repetition, if for no other reason
than to serve as warning to certain frsky
benedicts who would seek to perpetuate the
liberties of bachelorhood in the holy and sacred
estate OF matrimony. few evenings since
the present victim to the just and heroic reso-
luton OF his wife was about to attire himself
for the usual jaunt down town, the threadbare
excuse of having to keep an imperative engage
ment witha a friend being offered in extenuation,
with sang froid which to the injured feelings
or the dutlful and stay homo wife was be-
coming altogether too monotonous.


Rea'izlng that the fondness OF remaining
away during the early part of the evening was
fast becoming fixed habit with her llege, and
knowing full we'll that unless the rod was au-
pied with some show of indignation and firm
ness' the remaining evenings of her life would
be passed in thoughtless neglect but none the
less unlovely solitude, the noble little woman
choked back the sob of tender pleading that
arose in her breast, and putting the prettiest
little foot down in the world with a stamp that
meant business, she informed her protector
that II he didn't appear by II o'clock she
would order the door locked for the night. and
try to have him arrested. He would surely be
III by that hour was the perfdious assurance
which had been made and broken score of
times before, and after the matrimonial kiss
had been given in the usual Indifferent man
ner, they parted-he, to his boon companions
and revelry; she, to her blighted hopes and
loneliness, The night waned, and the patient
wife allowed just few minutes after the an
pointed time, (as what loving wife wouldn't,)
to JOIN the great unforgotten, when a small but
hrm hand might have been seen Reluctantly
and with a great heart, turning on the bolt
which was shutting out the dearest object of
her love IN the whole expanse of her little (in
one sense) world. Two hours of sleepless
waiting ensued, when familiar foot
step touched the threshold of the
door, and well-known hand tried the
unylelding door-nob. 1t proved trying mo-
ment for the listening WIFE but she Ind de-
termined to bear it.. Feeling that for once he
had been matched at his own game, the now
piqued husband stubbornly refused to ring the
bell and commenced to seek other means of
lngress After a moments reflection, his
, thoughts turned to the transom. Happy
thought! Being small in stature he would
climb over the transom, and steal into bed
without awakening his wife, thus cheating her
of an expected triumph, in having to reproach
him on opening the door. He chuckled to
himself, as he proceeded to put the shrewd
suggestion into execution In the meantime
curious policeman had observed the strange
conduct Of the prowler. and just as the lower
portion of his anatomy was passing through
the aperture, a rough hand was put upon his
person, and with the exclamation, give
caught you, you id thief the astonished
Individual was landed upon his feet. in man
ner that was more forcible than the subject of
the application thought absolutely necessary
long wrangle ensued, the trembling wife
anxlously awaiting results, and it is not exag-
serating the sensation to say that her heart
falrly leaped when the obdurate policeman
was induced to ring up the tenants in order to
verify his prisoners explanation. It is need
less to say that the explanation followed and
that the husband was permantly cured of stay
ing out of nights