Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — An Incredulous Bride. [ARTICLE]

An Incredulous Bride.

A wife’s unjust suspicions were the cause of very strained relations recently between a young couple living in Columbia avenue, near 20th street. She got the idea into her head that her husband was deceiving her when he said, as he frequently did, that he was “going around the corner for the evening to see a frlead.” In an attempt to do a little detective work she bought a pocket pedometer, an instrument resembling a watch, which registers the distance traveled by the person who carries It. The next time her husband went “around the corner” she secretly slipped it into one of his pockets and awaited the result. When he returned that night she found that the telltale instrument registered nine miles. In vain he attempted to convince h?r that he simply bad been playing billiards with his friend on the latter's private table, which was really the case, and that the machine had counted up the miles as he walked around the table. Her accusations led to a violent quarrel, which was settled only after several days had elapsed.—Philadelphia Record. i r