What The Husband Did

Husbanrla, It se ¦¦: mis are of amnft accoun t in Washington, iotw.ithstaudini{ the süsrlit Ogure tli-.'v out on "well11 social occasions. Au iaoideat reliited by r correspondeat shows this. A society lady of mucli piom'mence, whose husband holils a clerkihlp in one of the departments, Ims a mothef of raüch Bnancial wealtta living In tlie west. The mother is lu l!i( haliit of gendinjr handsotne pMii-m- tn lui daagbter. Beoently a fmall ]);ickag(.' cnntaininfc ioom ribbont, ]ocket liankerchlefi, boftboti; etc, nothiiijr "f ninch v.iluc, was reciMVcil liy tlie lattcr. Tlie daughter feit liurt that her niother's present was so IrisigniQcant as compared t" fortner one?, aml í-Iih hcgati to ie I) ix was emptieil of lts trilles. Tlie Berrant wai ordi rad to take the debris and thron it awny. The luisband bad confldeoce lu ln mother-in-law. "My deur, I uill lonk oarefully through the paper and sinuv wliicb oame in the Im.x; perhapa we Imve overlooked somathii!." üe dld look carelully aml was rewarded iy findin? an envelope with a neatly folded check tor f 1,030 In It, togetlier with an endearing note to herchilaren. The hutband wi so overeóme with jny at the Ihul that he could only iay,"Qo i bleuour motbtr."