Show THRICE A WRETCH there are thank god very few women on earth to whom the term diabolical wretch can be justly ap plied ono one of those few lives in san francisco and this ie is the way aha she talks through the neus letter to young ardent and trustful brides come my dear and age my tate cabinet my chamber of horrors I 1 shall have been married twenty even seven years the day after to tomorrow morrow you may find pome some benefit iu in contemplating tem plating it here is a boot a plain ordinary boot it seems to you well it is plain if rather large that boot ia is labeled the first break I 1 it was dropped by my husband over the banister on his return from the club we had bad been but two weeks married then the noise of the falling boot awoke me I 1 found him well feebly intoxicated 4 is a dithered rose this flower I 1 raw him with my own eyes place in the bosom of a sewing girl vi who ho worked tor for me I 1 was in the next room he ile kissed lier ber then I 1 sent the huy hussy to the right about and retained tho the rose tin this is a menu well one of iny bitterest enemies gave a dinner and invited him they had been sweethearts before ho lie married me I 1 found the menu in his pocket I 1 talked to him about it next day lie ile may have dined there since but 1 I lave not discovered any more menus this is a card I 1 have turned it to the wall I 1 not like you to eee see the address my dear that I 1 found in ins wis pocket he ife said that somebody placed it there tor for a joke he ile found it no joke I 1 can assure assur eyou you this is a bootjack boot jack he flung that at me on the tenth anni of our wedding I 1 promptly added it to my collection loa no time my dear in starting a little matrimonial museum on this plan have five a catalogue here is mine and when your husband cuta cuts up just remind him of the museum that wretch of a w woman oman is entirely too keen in her observation and truthful in her utterances to bo be a safe mem ber of society the tife husbands of san ban francisco ought to combine to suppress prettier Bier in self defence |