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Show Ids wife wore a great many silk dresses, and that seemed odd undor tho circumstances, circum-stances, When he arrived home he jokingly said to his wifo that sho ought to bo ablo to rent black silk dresses. Naturally tho spoune asked bim what ho meant. Ito told her. She declared that sho hadn't bought a black silk lreHs for a year, and naked to Bee tho bill. Her husband handed it over, when sho identified mora than half of tho ileum hh incorrect; tlutt is, sho had never had those goods. Tho husband went to tho store and interviewed in-terviewed the head of tho firm. That gentleman referred tho matter to tho bookkeeper, who showed all tho items charged proiierly on tho books. Then tho clerk who sold the goods wan wen. She remembered tho black Bilk union perfectly. per-fectly. The good were bought by a young lady who said sho was requested to get them by tho gentleman's wife, "Could xhe recognize, the lady?" "Oh, certainly!" said the clerk. Tho next day the gentleman again called. "( Had to nee yon," said tho pro-prietor. pro-prietor. "The lady in hero. There she (stands," The gentleman looked, and, lo and behold, the lady was an intimate : fruiitl of his wife, and a lady whoso parents are wealthy. Subsequent developments de-velopments showed that thiri was a nice lit.tlo game on le-r part. Kho acertniucd who of her friends bought their goods by bill, which wan paid by their purcrts. : Tho Buheme wouldn't have worked with . . ladies who hud allowances of their own. With the most of them sho only made occasional small charges, like gloves, cnir.i, collars or little lingerie, but where eho found that bills were not cloiiely iu- spoofed she plunged in deeper, Port- land (Me.) Press. Do You Scan Tout Bill? Theother day a gentleman of this city, , who is well known for bis weulth and social so-cial prominence, hapttoned to tako np the bill of a leading drygoods firm an it was lying on Ilia office tabio and glanced over ; tho items. This is a very rare proceeding ; on his part. Ho usually gave a check, and I then filed the bill without examining it. I This proceeding was not business like, but he had perfect confidence in his j wifo and also in the drygoods firm, but j on this occasion he looked over the items ' and ho saw his wife was a devotee to i black silk, lie couldn't remember that j |
