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Show No Cause for Alarm. The other Monday afternoon a woman wom-an rushed excitedly down nn alley in the poor quarter and, stopping at a house, knocked loudly. Receiving no reply, she knocked a second time. Still no answer. A third time she knocked, and then a window flung open and a woman whose appearance betrayed signs of a sudden awakening leaned out. "Well, what is it?" she asked. The woman below looked up and exclaimed ex-claimed with bated breath : "Mrs. Skinner, yer 'usband's got ten days I" "Dear, dear me, Mrs. Jones," was the reply, "is that all? How yer did unnerve un-nerve me ! I thought it was tlvut scarecrow after the rent agin." |