Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — One Can’t Be Too Careful [ARTICLE]

One Can’t Be Too Careful

“Dearest,” he wrote from his hostelry In the Ardennes, “I am sitting here beside a pleasant window, gazing dreamily out over the barren heatb, and on to the borders of the wide, wild forest beyond. But, further than eye can reach, travel the thoughts, the yearnings of my soul; they are all with you, darling—all with the sweet; precious, adorable wife who awaits my return In London.” These, and other dainty sentiments, he wrote, with one exception. From the word “window” up above he Inadvertently omitted the letter “n” and, when his wife read that he was “sitting beside a pleasant widow,” she threw down the letter, started post haste for the Ardennes, and brought him home with a flea In his ear. And, In spite of all explanations, the poor fellow says that for close on three months he was confoundedly N-pecked through that confounded “N."