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Show HER IDEA VERY MUCH WRONG Hired Girl Made Trouble by Sticking to the Preeept, "Better Uate Than Never." Cnmmnnilcr John O. ToweM, lio l In chnrKe of llio nnvy'a trannllflntlc rilclit plans, nld at a New York banquet ban-quet : The belter Inte than never method doevn't ro In nvlntlon any better than It wont In the Jones case. "Jones wn? n drummer and his wife during one of his trips gave birth to a son and frmcd In a pretty bad way In consequence, so a telegram to that effect ef-fect ns given to the hired girl for dls-pntcli dls-pntcli to Jones, hut the girl put It In her apron pocket nnd forgot all abont It "Well, by luck, the next day Jones enme home. Ills wife was then much .better. lie saw his son and departed again welf pleased. "A couple of weeks passed when the hired girl found the forgotten telegram In her pocket nnd In a panic sent It off to Jones, saying nothing to nn)body about her remissness. And that Is how It enme about that Jones wns horrified at dinner at his hotel that evening to get a wire which said: "'Another addition, n son; your wife very III ; return at once.' "Another J poor Jonc groaned. Impossible!' Then ho added. 'What n terrlhln thing I Her condition' must Indeed be very grim'.' "He took the express nnd got home the next morning In n stnte of frenzy. The hired girl confessed nil. "'I thought It was better to send the telegram Into than never, Mr. Jones,' she said," |