Year: 1875

| The most difficult thing 10 reach Is a


woman's pocket This is especially


the case, if the dress is hung up in q


closet, and the man is in hurry. We


think we are safe in saying that he is


always in hurry on such an occasion.


The owner of the dress is in the sit


ting room, serenely engrossed in a


book. Having told him that the ar


ticle he is in quest of is in her dress
pocket in the closet, she has discharged


her whole duty in the premises, and
can afford to feel serene. He goes to
the task with dim consciousness that


he has been there before, but says
nothing. On opening the closet door
and finding himself confronted with a
| number of dresses, all turned inside
out and presenting most formidable
appear ance, to ask (which dress ~
and being. told the brown one, and
asked if she had so many dresses that
there need be any great effort to find
the right one, he returns to the closet
with alacrity, and soon has his hands
on the brown dress Ii is inside OUT
like the rest-a fact he does not notice
however, until he has made several
Intellectual attempts to get his hands
into it. A nervous moving of his
hands and an appearance of perspira-
ton on his forehead are perceptible.
He now drives one hand in at the
back and feeling around finds place
and proceeds to explore it, when he
discovers that he is following the in
side of lining. The nervousness in
creases; also the perspiration. He
twitches the dress on the hook, and
suddenly the pocket, white, plump and
exasperating, comes to view. Then
he sighs the relief he feels, and is
mentally grateful he did not allow
himself to use any offensive express
ions, 1t is all right now.


There is the pocket in plain view


mot only on the outside but the in
side, and all he has to do is put his
right hand around in the inside and
take out the article. That Is all. He
can't help but smile tothink how near
he was to getting mad. Then he puts
his hand around to the other side. He
does not feel the opening. He pushes
a little farther-now he has got it. He
shoves the hand down, and is very
much surprised to see it appear oppo-
site his knees. He has made mis-
take. He tries again; again he feels
the entrance and glides down it, only
to appear again as before. This makes
him open his eyes and straighten his
face. He feels the outside of the
pocket, pinches it curiously, lifts it up,
shakes it, and after peering around the
roots of it he says "By graciousp
and commences again. He does it
calmly this time, because hurrying
only makes matters worse. He holds
up breadth after breadth, goes over
them carefully, gets his hands first
into a lining, then into the air again,
(where it always surprises him when
it appears) and finally into a pocket,
and is abut to Cry out with triumph,
when he discovers that it is the pocket
of another dress, He is mad now; the
closet air almost, stiles him; he is so
nervous he can hardly contain him.
self, and the pocket looks at him SO
exasperatingly that he cannot help
but "plug" it with his clenched fist,
and Immediately does it. Being
somewhat relieved by this perform
ance, he has a chance to look about
him, and sees that he has put his foet
through a handbook and into the
crown of his wife's bonnet; ne has
broken the brim of his Panama hat,
which was hanging in the same closet,
and torn about u yard of bugle trim
ming from new cloak. AS all this
trouble is due directly to his wife's in
fatuation in hanging up her dresses
inside out. He immediately starts
after her, and impetuously urging her
to the closet, excitedly and almost
profanely intimates his-doubts of there
being pocket in the dress, anyway.
The cause of the unhappy disaster
quietly inserts her hand inside the
robe and directly brings it forth with
the sought-for article. within its grasp.
He doesn't know why. but this makes
him madder than anything else.--
Donbugy Nes0s.