The Good Young Wife.
There is a young married woman of my acquaintance, somebody writes in the < Kansas City Times,’ whoso first wifely experience with the needle resulted in a capital joke on her. She found what appeared to be two immense rips on the inside of the tails of her husband’s frock-coat, and while he was down town she carefully sewed them op. When the young man came home to lunch his wife met him, coat in hand. “I’ve just mended it, M she said; "there were two awful rips in the tails of it.” “Let me see,” said the husband of tho industrious young woman, “ I didn’t know there was a tear in it,” “ Yes, there was ; right there.” “But those are the ” The young man caught the look of Innocent doubt on his wife's face and stopped. “ Yes, those were fearful rips; things were getting in them all the time.” And the young man went down to his office and picked oat the threads in order to get at his bank-book and a few letters that be bad ip those tail pockets.
A middle-aged woman was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three days’ Imprisonment for bigamy, her second husband being eighteen years old. To Give Away.—A boy of five or six years, according to a story in a contemporary, was made happy by the arrival of a baby sister. He had been the only child in the family, and, being a good and obedient boy, had been humored till ne was perhaps in some danger of being spoiled. Before the little new sister was many weeks old, however, Master Fred began to feel that his own position was sadly altered. The stranger had supplanted him. Father, mother, and servants were all the time talking about the baby. There was no mistake; Fred was no longer king. The boy began to be unhappy, ana just then he remembered a placard which his father had put up at a conspicuous point on the premises some months befcre —“ Ashes to give away. Inquire within.” Fred had taken great interest in this notice, and had inquired minutely as to its meaning. He remembered now that very soon afterwards a man called and carted away the ashes. Ho had been to the kindergarten, and could spell and print after a fashion. So, with such helps and hints as he was able to get slyly from the servants, he managed to produce the following sign, which his astonished father found posted one day in a sightly position as he came home to dinner: —“ A Baßy tO give away. INquire oF FrKIV
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Evening Star, Issue 8723, 15 January 1892, Page 2
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439The Good Young Wife. Evening Star, Issue 8723, 15 January 1892, Page 2
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