Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-30 | Page 7 | Man Meets His Wife at Depot and Pays $100 for Privilege of Carrying Her Suit Case

I MAN MEETS HIS WIFE AT DEPOT AND PAYS $100 FOR PRIVILEGE OF CARRYING HER SWT CASE j John Kohn, whoso place of business , is on lower Twenty-fifth street, made an eventful journey yesterday to the ; union depot to meet his -wife who -was returning from a journey. What was : there in that action more than any normal husband would venture? John Kohn went to meet his wife, not only because she was returning from a journey but because she was returning from n journey on which she had taken a suitcase. Now it is a fact which all travelers will attest that the suitcase on the return journey is fuller, heavier, more difficult to handle than on the outward trip. Knowing this, and because it Is an X unwritten law of the American com-fL com-fL nionvrcalth that a husband must be on hand at the depot to meet his wife, greet her smilingly, and carry the suit-case, suit-case, that John Kohn determined to be as well as to appear 100 per cent 1 American. j The wife arrived. The greeting's were exchanged. The suitcase, heavy as lead, but not so heavy that a welcoming wel-coming husband could not lift it gladly, glad-ly, was borne on the homeward way. Then. Here enters disaster in the person of Sergeant Kelliher. Disaster smiles and suggests that both suitcase and John make a speedy trip to the police station. John reluctantly obeys. The suitcase is opened. It is always a dangerous thing for a man to dare to open a lady's suitcase. It was dangerous dan-gerous this time, for John. Reposting in comfort in that suitcase were twenty-one bottles of "Joy water." John said It "is for the Spanish Influenza." Influ-enza." Spanish Influenza must be quite a booze fighter thought the chief and the sergeant It was necessary for John to deposit $100. - This morning John did not appear In court to answer to his name. Therefore There-fore the ball was forfeited. John thinks now that not only vigilance, vigi-lance, but $100 seems to be the price of liberty.