SHE MADE HIM REMEMBER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 17, 23 April 1892, Page 433

SHE MADE HIM REMEMBER.

On several occasions her husband had carried about him in his pockets for some days important letters which she had asked him to mail for her. Recently she gave him a letter addressed to himself, with the request not to read it until it reached his office. Although this struck him as a very strange proceeding he nevertheless concluded to comply with her wish. Arriving at his place of business he opened the letter and read as follows : —

‘ Mv Dear Husband—l must herewith inform you of a circumstance which will prove to be very disagreeable to you, but it is my bounden duty to tell you of it. I have, once for all, determined to bring this matter to your notice, let the consequences be what they may. For a week past I have foreseen that this must be done, but I have thus far refrained. The supreme moment has at last arrived, and the crisis is at hand. lam compelled to speak out. Do not judge me too severely, and bear up like a man !’ By the time he had read thus far, his hair stood on end with horror, and with a trembling hand he turned the leaf and went on further :—

‘We are completely out of soap. Please go at once to our grocer and order a box of ’s soap, and have it sent home in the course of the afternoon. I also want a dozen of ’s 5 cent package starch. I have adopted this mode of asking you to do me this favour so that you may not forget it.’ Nor did he forget it.