HIS BROKEN SLEEP.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2490, 6 November 1903, Page 6

HIS BROKEN SLEEP.

A CERTAIN individual has a wife who i* constantly afraid of burglars, in spite of the fact that she has never seen one in her house, never lost anything by burglary, and cannot remember that a thief ever got in to hei father's house. If the watch-dog turns over out in the dining room where he is chained near the silver, she sits bolt upright in bed and listens with both ears and a palpitating heart. If the dog growls a little in his dreams, she leaps from her bed, rushes to that of her husband, and after waking him, announces that there must be burglars in the house.

She lay down on a recent evening on her boudoir couch about five o'clock to take a nap. After a good snooze she awoke, and heard noises down stairs. She he«rdfootstepsofsoineonegoinghereand there and rummaging drawers. She heard the silver-okwet open and then she heard some of the treasure rattling as it was taken out. Her heart sank and throbbed as it sank. Soon she heard footsteps on the stairs, and she became spell-bound almost with fear. The burglar came towards her room and lingered at the door. Then he came right in. and putting his arms around her neck, said :

" Mamma, mamma, supper is ready." It was about eight o'clock, an dshe thought it whs midnight. For the benefit of this nervous woman and other* who are afraid of midnight misappropriations by bold men, it may be well to ("jiiote the advice of a kind-hearted burglar captured in the city of Memphis, Tenn. He .speaks from many years' experience, busy years during which he achieved marked success. He says it is bad policy to adopt the course in common practice among timid people or keeping their lights burning. A burglar, he says, will neglect a mansion to go into a cottage in which he sees burning the tell-tale light. It is a beacon and a beckon to something worth every effort to steal. Every good, sensible burglar knows that. Watch dogs, he says are not in favour with bnrghirs, but their worst enemy, in a business way, is a teething baby. He advises all nervous people who would make their home-- burglar proof to keepa teething baby constantly on hand.