| Show F VERY Was This Little Woman in Supplying upi lying Husband With Matches New Orleans Democrat The group gro group p In the tho cosy ROSY corner of tho the Grunewald lobby was hS talking about the Intuitions of and a voluble gen gentleman en tieman Chattanooga C had just con concluded concluded concluded a glowing n upon that quality inthe Ia the sex Yes es its it quite true said a stockman from Nebraska after atter a short pause vause Women certainly do have intuitions that take the place pince 1 1 of judg judgment judgment judgment ment and just to illustrate the point which has been beOn be n made m e so beautifully by our friend from Tennessee Ill ru tell you a little story In I had a horse ranch on the North Platte miles mlles due west of ot Singleton That part of ot Ne Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska braska much settled then and the country between the station and my place was a bare rolling prairie inhabit inhabited ed by nothing but coyotes co otes and jackrabbitS bitS Early one morning in the last part of October I started to town in tn my light wagon to get some supplies A cowboy named Jack Cutting who worked on the ranch went along for tor company and we had gone perhaps a mile when I looked around and saw my wife standing on a little knoll by the house waving a towel tied to a stick Naturally I was startled Something Some hing wrong I r said and started s the team back on a dead run My wife met mel melus us all out of breath Heres your match matchbox matchbox matchbox box Will she panted handing me a lit little little littie tle tie German silver case You went off without it and Ive Ivo Just JiBed billed it for you fresh We Ve had had h da a very open fall that year and the weather was like May an anas anas anas as neither Jack or myself smoked or hart had any intention of cricking cooking c tm On n the road I Iwas Iwas Iwas was pretty mad to be called aUed back on such nuch sucha a fool errand Plague take the match matches es t j snapped Youve Yo v made us lose half an hour and I whipped up my m team Now if youve ever been In Nebraska you know Its a country of sudden changes political and climatic That morning the thermometer must have marked nearly GO 60 by noon it had tumbled 20 degrees dc ees and before 2 a snowstorm swept SW Pt down out of the th northwest nort est and closed In Inon Inon Inon on us like a bank of f fog To cap the cli cU climax climax max mL the team scared at a prairie wolf wolfran wolfran wolfran ran away for half a n mile and when I brought them up at last we were so turn turned turned turned ed around round I know north from south To ro go so on m n at random on that desolate prat prairie prairie rie rio was madness The only thing to do was to stay right there until the storm was over oyer but never having dreamed of such an emergency we had hac taken no wraps or blankets and we were already half frozen Fortunately we had hac brought along some som empty crates crat Wel break em up said Jack and can knock enough oth other r wood off the wagon to make a tire that will keep us alive until we get our bearings What a lucky thing you have those matches Yes Y s I said with tears in my eyes eres Wise little woman And to think I scolded her hor I shall never forgive myself In five minutes we had cleared a space In the snow and had a heap of light wood ready I took out the German silver sliver case opened it with my numbed umbe l lingers nger and The Nebraska man paused and slowly cut the end oft ff a 11 cigar Well Wen exclaimed the th gentleman from Chattanooga impatiently what happened next My 11 thoughtful little wife had filled the case with safety matches that strike only on the box re replied replied replied plied the Nebraskan N quietly Ur |
