Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — BROKE HIS WIFE [ARTICLE]

BROKE HIS WIFE

Of ths Habit of Going Through His Clothes. “I say, old man,’* aald Dodson, as he loaned his friend Blobson a nickel to pay his car fare, “why don’t you try my scheme?” “What scheme?” growled Blobson, as he mentally tried to figure out how anuch his wife had realized In her midnight raid. “Why, a scheme to break your wife Of going through your pockets when you are asleep!” 1 "I say, old man!” cried Blobson, eagerly, “if you have any scheme by which I can break my wife of going through me, for heaven's sake put me on to it, and I am your friend for life!” “Well, you see, I used to suffer from this thing until I discovered means by which I broke my wife of the habit I gathered together all the counterfeit money-that I had accumulated in 20 years of business and filled my pockets with It. The next morning I discovered that it was gone. That same day my wife went shopping and was arrested for passing counterfeit money. It looked very black for her when they found the rest of the stuff that she had, and she was just ready to faint when I arrived on the scene. Of course, I played the Indignant husband, and threatened to sue the whole outfit for damages. But the scheme worked. Since then the only thing my wife will accept is a check.”—Detroit Free Press.