The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-09-29
1T is an ago since / had new silk dress
l only wish you were in Blount's shoes

L only wish you were III Dlounts SHOES.
'Bahr e ~
A very expensive intcrjection this, which
was peculiar favorte with Mr.. Spindle. 1t
was indeed, almost the only means he had of
satisfactory expressing his disgust.
You would be contented if you only had
one shirt on your back
Il should try to be, if | could not get an
other
'If you were only in Bloun.'s circumstan-
ces should be perfectly contented.'
Perhaps you would ? replied Spindle in
ciedulously.
Il knoac l would be-
q have made up my mind that person
who is not contented in one sphere, will not
be in anothed. Do you remember when |
had a salary of only four hundred dollars +?
what of itg
Then if we could get an income of one
thousand dollars a year, and this very house,
you would be satisfied
'Wc associate with people so much better
off that cannot but feel our inferiority.'
'Bahp
I'VE don't have anything like other folks.
Here we are skived up in this little martin
box Of a house, no dinners, no parties, only
one servant, and about one new dress a
year.
Dreadful, isn't, my dearp
You, who arc away all the time about
your business, don't feel as l do.
poor womanp
But Mrs. Spindle went on in spite of her
husbands ridicule, to enumerate list Of
wants and deficiencies, which it would pain
n reasonable person to read, and which inclu
ded a hundred things that her husbands
salary placed far beyond her reach.
Her bright glowing star at present was
the social position of the Blounts but it was
far of, which made her desire to reach it all
the more. A larger house, finer furniture,
newer dresses, more opera, moro fashionable
dissipation, were just then her ideal perfect
happiness.
But Mrs. S. was discontcnted all her life.
From being a shop-gi she had become the
wife Of poor clerk, which seemed to her at
the time to be taking long step. She was
habtual grumbler, and after three years
Of married life, her husband had made up
his mind that marriage was lottery, and
that he had drawn a blank.
About three months after the scenes we
have introduced, Mr. Spindle received visit
from sea-captain, who had just returned
from Valparaiso, where the former had an
uncle who was reported to have made hand
some fortune. This uncle had wife and
ono child, so that Spindle had never allowed
tho Valparaiso fortune to form one Of his cx-
pectation.
But the sca.captain Informed him that his
uncle was dead; and his uncle's wife and
child. This was most astounding intelligence,
and Spindle had nearly turned himselfinsido
out in the excitement Of tho movement.
The fortune had been left to him and an
other nephew of the deceased, and Spindle
wanted to turn double sommersct when
he was told that his share rather exceeded
fifty thousand dollars
But Spindle was queer fellow, and after
the first excitement had spent itself, he re-
lapscd into XII. Of social Indifference, which
however, waa, apparently, not in the least
real. When he went TO dinner that day he
did not even mention the fact Of his sudden
attainment of wealth; but waited till. in the
evening, the Blounts were alluded to in the
usual manner.
OF course Mrs. Spindle was overwhelmed
with astcnshment and delight, and, while
Spindle coolly read the morning paper, as
though nothing had happened, she pictured
out the establishment they would have, and,
in particular wondered what tho Blounts
would say aosg.
Six months after. and Spindle had the