Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — THE STATE OF HER MINO. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE OF HER MINO.

It Wai Lucky for Her Husband That Telegraphing Cnm»i High. Thero were little red stroaks in her face and a blaze in her eye as she came into a country telegraph office not a thousand miles from Detroit. “I want to telegraph to my husband," she said with a snap of her large and shapely Jaws. “Yes, madam,responded the operator, handing her some blanks. “How much will it be?” she inquired. “1 don't know, madam.” replied the operator, with keen politeness and a faint smile. “Don’t know?"sho exclaimed. "What are you here for?” ’ To’tell people what I know, madam and to send and receive messages." “Well, why don’t you know now much a telegram will cost?" “Because, madafii, 1 don’t know whore It is to be sent ” “Well, you needn't bo so smart,” she snapped. “It is to go to Detroit." “Thangyou, madam; it will be twen-ty-five cents. ” She made no further remarks, but took the blanks, and in the course of time teturned with about ten pages of closely-written matter. “There!" she said, laying a quarter down with the message "send that." “But. madam," explained the operator, “it is twenty-five cents for ten words. ” “What?” she ejaculated. “ You can only send ten words for twenty five cents." She looked him square in tho face as she tried to suppress her feelings. “Are you a married man?" sho asked. “Yes, madai "Well, you must be an idiot if you don't know that a woman can’t give her husband a piece of her mind in ten words:" and without waiting to hear anything more from him, she flounced herself out of the 01100, taking her nessage with her.—Free Press.