The Frontier

A sensible wife is a great blessing, as witnesseth the following true tale: A well-known clergyman, chancing to look out of the window one afternoon, saw a female parishioner about to knock at his door. "Oh, there's Mrs. Brown coming!" he ejaculated to his wife. "I cannot stand her. I'll go to my study and wait there till she leaves." He went, and for an hour busied himself with his next Sunday's sermon. Then he stole out and listened. All seemed to be quiet, and he was thoughtless enough to call out: "Well, my dear, so that old bore has left you at last?" But a voice from the drawing-room caused beads of cold perspiration to break out all over him. But at this critical moment the good wife came to the rescue. "Yes, dear," she cried out, cheerfully, "she went away long ago; and here's our old friend, Mrs. Brown, whom you are so anxious to see." Let us trust that the wife may find forgiveness for the terrible fib.-Saturday Evening Post.