Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — HELPING HIM OUT. [ARTICLE]

HELPING HIM OUT.

How n Wife Rained Her Hunband’n Story. Crawley and his wife were at a dinner party the othei* night, observes the New York World, and Crawley, who had been waiting three-quarters of an hour for the opportunity, suddenly (burst out with: “That reminds me of a little story I heard the other day about an absentminded man who was going to take a bath one Saturday night and —” “You are mistaken, my dear,” said the wife of Crawley’s bosom across the table in her calm yet firm voice. “It was not Saturday night, it was on Wednesday night. You always get it wrong when you try to tell the story, and I think that even a simple little story should be told correctly’ if at all, and you are so apt to get muddled on the main points of a story that I'd better help you out by telling the main points nryself, which were that the man was very absent-minded and one night when he had filled his bath tub full of water preparatory to taking a bath, his head was so full of other things that what did he do but plunge right in without taking off any’ of his clothes! Those are the main points, and now you may go on with the story, Mr. Crawley.” And Crawley laughed lightly as he said: “I guess there is nothing left to tell, my dear,” but the thoughts and strong desires that were hidden away in the secret recesses of his heart only Mr. Crawley knew as they went on their homeward way.