Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — GREETS WRONG WOMAN [ARTICLE]

GREETS WRONG WOMAN

CLEVELAND MAN MAKE 3 A MOST DEPLORABLE MISTAKE. She Is Not His Chum’s Wife, but, Wishes Her Husband Were There to Thrash '•‘Low Wretch." The Cleveland man's old college, chum out in Chicago had written him that his wife and little boy were going through here on their way east to visit her mother. They would be In Cleveland over night, the Chicago chum wrote, and be wanted to know if his old friend here would mind meeting the little wife and kid aad taking them out to his house to meet his own wife, and let ’em stay there over night. Naturally, the Cleveland man wrote back that he would be delighted. He had never met his chum’s •frife as the .marriage had taken place since the two men separated, but the description in her husband’s letter seemed sufficient to identify her and her offspring. “The youngster’s a chubby little cuss with sandy hair about like mine,” the letter said, “and as for my wife, well, all you have to do is just pick out the niftiest little woman of 25 or so that gets off the train, and if she has with her the sandy-haired youngster before, mentioned, and is rather slender, with dark hair, it’s a safe bet she’s the one.” So the Cleveland man went, down to th§ station and waited for the Chicago train to pull in. Among the first passengers to alight was a charmInely wholesome looking little woman of perhaps 25 years, slender, wellgroomed, and good to look upon. She carried a small alligator satchel -in one hand, and with the other clutched a 6mall sandy-haired boy. “This certainly is an easy one,” thought the Clevelander who was to meet the woman and child. “No chance to go wrong here.” As the woman and youngster squeezed through the exit gate, he took off his hat and walked over Ito meet them. He knew his old friend wouldn’t have married a girl without a sense of humor, so he began jauntily: “Well, my orders were to meet the most charming looking woman that got off the train, so ”- He was cut short by the sharp, indignant look the woman gave him. “Why, my dear girl,” he resumed, smiling, “can’t you guess who I am? I’m ” “You’re a low wretch trying to take advantage of a woman traveling without an escort,” she put in. “But, madam. Prank wrote riie that ” “I don’t know any Frank. I only wish that my husband were here, though, to give you the thrashing you deserve. If you speak another word to me I shall call a policeman'.” The Clevelander saw several people looking at him and thought the woman might make a scene if he tried to explain. So he lifted his hat once more and turned away in considerable confusion. On his way out he heard several people talking under their breath, using such phrases as “fresh masher," "no respect for a nice woman.” and the like. When he got home he found waiting for him a telegram from his Chicago friend, saying that his wife had found it necessary to go straight through to the east without stopping at Cleveland, after all.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.