Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-23

out !; don't you see it destroys the SYM
metry of the room 2"
"I declare ! so it does:" he replied
with puzzled look, taken on his own
assertion. q will bring my desk up"
Horrible! MIR. H.; that clumsy desk
is bad enough in its corner; you will
disfigure every thing, and am trying so
hard to be neat! you might at least help
me-"
cob! to be sure," said her husband,
rubbing his head yes, yes: but then [
don't really know how I'm going to
write"
"Perhaps you had better just turn
round and use the side table. | am
sorry that you must have paper, pen and
ink, because you scatter them about so
mceremoniously, and you know the least
disorder is a blemish. wish you would
put your feet on line as you observe the
children do; there, that is better: now
my dear you can write. The children
shall be perfectly still ;" and evening the
rockers with the seams in the carpet, she
squared herself opposite the row of silent
juveniles, and folded her hands.
Mr.. Hubbub put his pen on the paper ::
queer it wouldn't bulge an inch. In
vain he tried to think, to write-not a
word would come, and he folded an empty
sheet, enveloped and directed it to " "si-
lence, order," &C., and put it in his
pocket.
Every day for a week the result was the
same The five still children sat in their
| five even seats; Mrs. H. was statue, all
but her tongue, and that was so eloquent
in defence of perfect symmetry, that her
husband-but we won't say anything
more here.
One day he came home in brown
study, frowned on the children, and even
on his wife, and sat down moodily with
his knees crossed.
"Do be more particular, my dear, y
expostulated his triumphant partner +;
your feet should be parallel. AS you
know your favorlte remark is that s. the
least disorder is a blcmlsh,'' and / am
sure more ungraceful sight than a gen.
tleman-
'Hush!'' exclaimed Mr.. Hubbub, with
a degree of energy and sternness unusual
with him.
Mrs. H. started and stared. The little
Ii. S opened their mouths and their arms /;
but before word could be spoken, the
senior Iubbub deliberately arose, and
turned every chair in the room upside
down.
"There - he muttered with smile of
satisfaction-'' and | amt done either
Pm going to set you all to crying or
laughing; so first, here goes: - and he
pinched the sleeping baby, who replied
by terrific scream.
The poor children fearful of losing their
long coveted bribe, and altogether un
nerved by this unusual, and unfatherly
eXhi bition-burSt out into cries of terror
discOrdant, while the satisfied father Stun
blcd about among the overturned chairs,
swapping his fingers, and shouting at each
furious outcry-" delightful enchanting
Sing, louder, boys | like it. Hurrah
Richards himself again"
Mrs. II. halfdistracted, knew not wheth-
cr to laughor cry, till her hus band shouted
above the din, g wife, hand me that pen
if don't write one of the most glorious
articles that ever set the public On fire,
then I've raised this general and particu
lar hubbub for nothing, that s ALL"
But when she saw him dashing away
as if all the ink in creation were after his
ideas-filling a sheet in no time, and only
pausing to beseech the children not to
keep quiet, she laughed till the great
round tears tumblcd down her ch>kS.-
And the balby, after an attempt at inSig
nation, caught the * malady" and laughed
too-joined one after the other by the
young Hubbubs. and finally by {he mag
nificent basSo of Hubbub the elder, till the
walls echoed and re echoed to the screams
of mirth.
Suffice it to say that henceforth and
forever after, & as far into the future as
this deponent knoweth," Mr.. Hubbub
was contented with wife as neat as a
new pin-after the children were asleep.
And he found that it had been owing
more to their innocent enjoyment than his
own inspiration, that he had gained the
reputation of being remarkably clever
writer.
overheard Hubbub saying to newly
welded benedict, "now Fred, if you ex-
pect perfect paradise, a perfect wife and
perfect neatness-hope you may get it.
But tell you what / would stand in
your shoes if you do, for you'll only be
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