A THOUGHTFUL HUSBAND.
A Detroit lady who is subject to heart disease, to jk tea last Sunday with a neighbor, and whilfi silting at table, her husband rushed in without a hat, and in his shirt sleeves. "Be calm !" he exclaimed hurriedly to his wife; "don't excite yourself : you kno<v you can't stand excitement, and it might be worse." I "Gool Heavens !*'■ cried his wife; "the children I — " "They're all right ! Now, Mary, don't get excited, Ke p culm and cool — it can't be helped now : we must bear those visita'ion* of Providence with philosophy ;" - ' "Then it's mother 1" grasped his wife. "Your mother's safe ; get on your things bat don't hury or worry. It's to late to be of any use, but I'll fly "back and see what I can do. .1 only came to tell you not to get excited." "For mercy snke 1" implored the almost fainting wnmori, ''tell me the worst!" "Well, if you will have it, the conquences be on your own heacl, Mary. I've tried to prepare you, and if you will know— don't excite yourself- try and survive — but our chimney's on fire, and the whole department and all the neighbours are in our front yard !" She survived.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 335, 29 February 1884, Page 5
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205A THOUGHTFUL HUSBAND. Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 335, 29 February 1884, Page 5
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