LOSING A WIFE IN LONDON FOG.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 13 June 1883, Page 2

LOSING A WIFE IN LONDON FOG.

A few days ago a countryman friend with bis wife,-, who is young,' and .hand-? sorrier than he is, essayed to go out for a little shopping. The fog was dreadful. In attempting.to cross the. street th ey got cut off and separated by an intervening cab. The husband landed on the and"supposed “his wife, to be alibis, heels,. Astonished to . find to find she was not," he ' rushed back. Meanwhile his wife had? crossed Jn , pursuit 'of him. He became" alarmedairil ran up the street.and dowii again in fruitless search. 'The aid of the 1 police. l was invoked, arid, after a vain search/somebody suggested .that “ Madam might have taken a cab and gone to the hotel.” Visions ofn an; elopement haunted the mind: of the jealous husband but he drove to the hotel. • Madam was there, and she was'in a “ state of mind.” She was mad, .very mad, and anyone with the usual experience can imagine how tropical she made it for him. He told; me/ confidently that the; little episode ■ cost- him ’ well on to fifty pounds. Of course) apologies have no commercial value; Nothing less than one of those fifty-guinea Regent-street fur dolmans restoresharmony.in such a case. Nothing less did. in. 1 His, at. any rate. Moral: Don’t go put'shopping in London on a foggy day without having a string to her.—(London Correspondence New York -I'Tibune*)