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Show TESTING HIS TONGUE. The Unhappy Experience of a Young Married Woman. A young married woman in Brooklyn suspected that her husband was indulging in-dulging in wine. She determined however, how-ever, to say nothing till she had confirmed con-firmed her suspicions. In conversation with her bosom friend she said she would give anything . to discoveh the truth. The friend mentioned that a man even slightly intoxicated cannot pronounce words of length. This gave the young wife an idea, which she proceeded pro-ceeded to put into execution. When the young women met again, the suspicious wife announced that the worst had been ascertained. She burst into tears and took from her hand bag a paper, which she handed to her friend. "I gave him this," she sobbed. The friend read from the list the following fol-lowing words: "Philoprogenitiveness. disproportionableness, pseudaesthesia, phthisis, parachronism, hyprochondria-sis, hyprochondria-sis, photochromy, syncategorematic." "And," added the unhappy wife, with a fresh sob, "the wretch missed nearly all of them." New York Tribune. |