Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — FRIGHTENED HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

FRIGHTENED HIS WIFE.

Forty Cents Almost the Canse of a Catastrophe. Before Mrs. Rrowley was married she scoffed at the misguided girls and women who kept personal accounts. Her argument was that if you knew how much money you had and it was all gone what was the use of piling on the anguish by having your folly and extravagance In black and white to stare you in the face, especially as you had no more money at the end of the month than you had without an account book? But since she has been running a house she has achieved not one but nearly a dozen account books. There is one devoted to the groceryman, another to the butcher, personal accounts take a third and so on till she spends nearly all her glad young life balancing sums. It is a matter of pride with her that they shall come out even and so there was woe last month when forty cents refused to be accounted for. She and Mr. Browley had a grave and lengthy discussion over the missing forty. Each accused the other of frivoling the sum away and neglecting to enter it on the proper book. “Sundries.” Mr. Browley insisted sternuously be was not guilty; Mrs. Browley looked pained and urged him to confess. He left for downtown vowing vengeance. It was late that afternoon when Mrs. Brbwley was entertaining a roomful of aristocratic callers that a telegraph boy appeared; The maid brought In the fatal yellow envelope and at once the bride knew her husband had been fatally injured and was sending for her. Some one revived her with smelling salts, a lady in purple velvet fanned her with a hastily snatched lamp shade and a third visitor with more presence .of mind than the rest opened the telegram. The message read: “Honest, now, wliat did you do with that forty cents?”— Chicago News.