Show 1 I INO NO ESC PE ESCAPE FOR HI HIM HIM ESC MR BENSON CO CONDEMNED TO A DIET OF HAM I Policy Polley of Deception Brought Woe to New Yorker Who Was Wat BatchIng BatchIng Batching Batch Ing It While His Wife Was Visiting The last time Ume Mr Denson Benson told a Ho lie Hohe liebe he be told it to his wife says the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Times He told it Just before she went to Boston Doston The morning she went away Mrs Benson took Mr Benson into the kitchen and showed him the Icebox I il know she said how you dislike eating in restaurants so I have left enough provisions cooked to last you for tor several days Here are cakes preserved fruits salads and boiled ham You can make your own coffee and by boiling potatoes whenever you feel hungry for tor them thorn you will be spared the he horror of restaurant fare for tor at least a week Benson Denson surveyed his well-stocked well commissariat with pangs of dyspepsia The prospect of dining alone on cold viands and b boiled potatoes potatoes pota pota- toes offered but few tew more attractions than a course in public eating houses but his habitual regard for tor Mrs Ben Bensons Benson's BenSons BenSon's sons son's feelings prevented his saying so On the contrary he thanked her effusively effusively ef ef- for tor her tender thoughtful- thoughtful ness That ham said h he looks par par- fine I am anxious to get at atIt atit atit it now I shant shan't step a toot foot inside of ofa a restaurant so long as there is a scrap of ot it left Mrs Benson beamed with the happiness happiness hap hap- happiness of the well doer whose deeds of kindness are appreciated by the re reo I thought y you u would like it she said The next day when writing from Boston Doston Mrs Benson Denson appended a postscript postscript postscript post post- script to her six page letter How is the ham she asked In reply to this query Benson Denson wrote The ham is delicious I I 1 eat it for tor I breakfast and for tor dinner Yesterday I II I happened to be In this neighborhood at lunch time and will and will you believe me me-I me I cou couldn't bear to go downtown wn again without a bite of that ham so soI soI soI I came and had a snack You were a trump to leave me so well provided for Thenceforward Benson Denson forwarded to Boston daily dally bulletins of the state of the ham market For the most part this information was conveyed In letters let iet tern and postal cards but on the eighth day he rushed into telegraphic activity That morning he had dumped tour four of the whole ham Into the garbage can so he wired with witha a strict regard for tor truth The ham hamIs Is gone On the twelfth day dal after Mrs Bensons Benson's Bensons Benson's Denson's Ben Den sons son's dep departure rt Jie if Benson rece received ved ah express package from Boston Doston Wonderingly Wonderingly Won Won- he paid the charges of 75 cents and wonderingly he unwrapped the box For the love of heaven groaned Benson Denson and resolved henceforward to stick valiantly by the truth Mrs Benson had sent him another ham |