Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-06-28
From Arlhur's llome Magazine.
Mrs. Phips's Dough-Face.
By AUGUSTA MOORE.

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BY AUGUSTA MOORE
Mr.. Phips was good man and lovin.
HUSBAND, as everybody, even to the servant.
and sewing girls who were employed abou
his house, willingly and admiringly testified
My DEAR said he TO Mrs .Phips, one fine
clear winter morning, The alwaysicalled hi,
wife my dear which proves my opening
assertion. my dear, am sorry TO be absen
all night from your sweet company. and
from my dear home; but | believe [ shall
be obliged to 90 away. on business, this P
NJ, and am afraid shall not be able to re
/ turn till tom orrow afternoon
Where are you going, my dear?' asked
Mrs. P, with a sweet smile.
TO Providence, to see about that Lane
affair, Of which | told you.'
Oh said Mrs Phips, with an air of sat,
isfaction. She evidently had no objections
to the projected jaunt.
Mr. Phips accordingly departed. The
weather had been remarkably cold FOR sew.
eral days, and pretty lutte Mrs. Phips was
very much troubled BY chapped face. 1t
had been quite sore. and fre.ted her not a
little. She was afraid it diminished herbeau
ty, and rendered her less pleasing to hel
husbands eyes,
As she sat sewing that afternoon. she tho
over what she had better do to cure the IN
pleasant roughncss.
L know what can do, she said; III
put a dough covering on my face to-nig hit,
and by tomorrow it will be as soft and
smooth as ever
So that evening she made Dolly, the cham
,bermaid, bring up pint of dough, and at
ter making all due preparations for bed, she
rolled and patted out sort Of mask; and ia
king care to make a place to breathe Tire
also hole for each eye, she stuck it on te
her face, and-tyingit fast with napkin, laid
herself peacefully down to rest.
Now it SO happened that Mr.. Phips me-
aInan uponthe road TO Providence, who had
urgent business with him /, and ithecame nee
essary that he should return to Boston.
He did so, and gave his entire attention t
his companion until near eleven clock tha
night, when he turned his steps towards hi:
home. ny
He smiled gently to himself, as he troc
the crisp ground of the common over which
his path led him; and one could easily CUES.
he was thinking of the pleasant surprise hi.
vie would feel upon seeing him home Sc
soon.
| He entered the house with night key
ana it was bri ght moonlight, he thought i
useless to light up the gas le undress by, 81
moved about without it. The RAYS of til,
moon fell across the bed and illumined-
what surely that ghastly visage was not th,
| face OF his dear wife?
As the eyes Of the horror stricken mai
rested upon the horribly strange thing, lyins
on the white pillow, where the Ito his eyes
beautiful face of his darling Nanny belonged
he uttered an unearthly sound, somewher,
between groan, an oath, and death-rat
tie, and staggered back against chair or
which Mrs. Phips had placed pitcher o
water and glass. The chair and its con
tents, with Mr.. Phips on top of the broken
glass aud china, came to the floor Up Jump.
ed the fearful vision. and in a sepulcbra]
voice demanded, what is it?' then cried.
thieves! :obbers!' and 'fire!' almost in a
breath. -
The unfortunate husband, half distracted
by bewllderng terror, started for the door
But the brave goblin had no idea OF letting
robbcr escape so. She rushed after him,
and down stairs the two raced-he, with his
hair rising and stiffening in all directions
over his head, and the blood dripping from
half dozen gashes in his body; she, scream.
ing with might and main for help! help,'
her muffied tones sounding worse and worse
at every word. On and on went the twain,
I'LL the large dining hall was reached. There
the terrified servants were meditatino
whether they had better run to or from the
scene Of action. The gas was blazing there
for Biddy, Dolly, and Jim had no notion of
being murdered in the dark. Oil We mirth-
full and grotesque deitics of old, how would
ye have delighted in that scene!
At the sight of the bloody garments of
their master, and the shocking goblin which
followed hard after him, Biddy and Jim
uttered pair of yells that were original
beyond all imitation, and dropped, as shot
by hot thunderbolts, in two heaps upon the
floor. Dolly, who had carried up that un-
lucky bit of dough, understood the matter
better, and with one sweep of her powerful!
arm, she arrested her masters flight, and
brush doffthe mask which her mistress wore.
More ashamed of the figure they had cut
before their servants, than they would care
TO own, the two subsidized individuals sud
denly withdrew into the privacy OF their
chamber, leaving Dolly, whose agony of
mlrth broke forth the very moment the last
auuer Of night-linen had disappeared thro'
the door. to shake out her fellow servants,
and satisfy them. the best way she could,
that the shapes Of terror which had blast
ed their vision. were nothing but mortal
shapes of flesh and blood, ratAer spaiselv
covered with dry goods. Hoping that Mr..
and Mrs. Phips enjoyed a good nj GIFTS rest,
and that their little adventure in no wise
disturbed their conjugsl felicity, wish my
readers a respectful good afternoon, and re-
lapse into silence.
MYSTERIOUS DIsAPPEARANcE.-A man
named ..Sim 0nton, stranger who came