Trouble in the Tiff Family.

Otago Witness, Issue 2207, 18 June 1896, Page 47

Trouble in the Tiff Family.

' -•' Is there .anything in the paper f** asked Airs Tiff of her husband, who had been monopolising the Evening Bugle. "No," replied Mr Tiff i

"It seems to me that you are taking a long ]Hme to read nothing. Buppoie you hand it to inc. Perhaps;! can find something in it." " Well, here^s something which may interest * rou. A" man in Ohio refused to pay his wife's uneral expenses,- and the undertaker sued for . tie money. The court decided that a husband Bust pay for his wife's burial. What do you ;hmk of taking a case like that to court ? " "I should think the mean man would ba ashamed of himself," declared Mrs Tiff emphatically. "So should I," assented- Mr Tiff. "The very idea of a man not wanting to pay for his wife's funeral. I should have thought he Wonld have been perfectly delighted to " "John Henry Tiff, what are you saying?" demanded that gentleman's wife. " Ob, of coarse, I didn't mean that, you , know. I mean that he should consider it a sacred duty t» give his wife respectable burial, tod. pay for the samp cheerfully " ." Mr Tiff, do you teally mean that ho— that you, -for instanqe, would pay for my funeral • "expenses cheerfully? 'V ' : - . " That isn't exactly what I. mean, my dear. Sou must understand what I am trying to say." " I understand perfectly what you are saying, Mr Tiff. You tell me that you wish I were dead ; that you would pay my funeral expenses cheerfully} that you would be "perfectly delighted to have the opportunity— ♦perfectly

delighted' were. your very wordß, John Henry Tiff, and' l think you are a' perfect brute." " Oh, how, look here,*', protested Mr Tiff, "you know very well.that what I said wouldn't bear any such construction if you. weren't so ready all the time to find occasion to scold me."

"You needn't try to defend yourself, for you can't do it. You said* you'd think that a man ought to be delighted to have the chance to pay for his wife's funeral ! If s enough to make any self •respecting woman go and commit suicide, so it is. ■ And I'd go~and do it, too, if it wasn't that it would afford you too much satisfaction. Oh ! why, oh ! why did I ever think that I could love such a wretch as yon ? "

At .this point Mrs Tiff burst into tears, and Mr Tiff put on his hat and walked out of the house.— New York World.