SHE GOT MAD.
{ Tb® other evening a Hetroit joker slipped a little pink love-letter into the pocket of a staid old citizen as they were riding oh the Street car. Of course the old citizen’s wife made a dive for his overcoat pockets as she passed through the hall, and when she had digested the lovedetter phe determined to commit suicide. ' ' While going upstairs after her ‘bonnet shef gdt'mad, and changed her mind.;-; -Walking into the room where jie : sat before a cheerful fire, she pxclaimed, “ Loves you better than her own life, eh?” : he inquired. ” ‘ ‘And she* wants to know how that bald-headed wife of yours gets along, eh ?” I really—l can’t——•” “ And she wants 50dols; to. buy her a set of furs, does she ?” “ Why, Mary, why—what are you talking about ?” ■ “ Gh J itfecome got the proofsshe .shouted, making a dash for his hmr* (( The wbrthy nqan has sworn the most solemn 1 oaths to his innocence; Offered to fet her employ e detective to shadow him; accounted for every hour of his absence during, the last year; and furnished fifty theories in 'regard to the letter, and yet the wife coldly‘remarks that-she is staying there solely on the children’s account. :
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Evening Star, Issue 4032, 28 January 1876, Page 3
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203SHE GOT MAD. Evening Star, Issue 4032, 28 January 1876, Page 3
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