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Show GENTLE TAP Of FAN FATAL Man Dreaming of the Daye of the Guillotine Died Whon His Wife . Touched Hie Neck. Arthur MacLanghlln of Detroit 13 responsible re-sponsible for this story sent me by my friend, Leo D. Brown, of the Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan Book corporation: "A Reno gent had, on a Saturday night. It-come very much absorbed In 'The Tule of Two Cities.' Particularly was he Impressed with the description of the gtilllotine and the mlsfortunates upon whose necks It descended so dev-astatlngly. dev-astatlngly. The vision preyed upon ids Imagination. "Next day his wife Insisted that he accompany her to church, lie drowsed during an inordinately leng prayer and dreamed that the guillotine was about to descend on his bent neck. Wife, upon resuming her seat when tha prayer was over, noticed that her husband hus-band was asleep and still leaning forward, for-ward, bis bead resting on his hands on the pew ahead. And so, with her fan, she tnpped him lightly upon the back of tl.e neck. Whereupon the gent fell dead." What a fearful-lesson for wives! W. O. T. in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. |
