Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-07-13
--POMERoY,- TUEsD AY..aJULY l3 SOS.

and from my lorg acquaiulHnce with her,
1 nm satisfied that she bas, something in
her head worth proteetiny. unlike those
ladies who patronixe curtaIed bonnetswith
more ribbon than crowns and more curtain
than comfort. .r.. ,,,ft .ss,a ro., .,fr,trI
She fully ngrees with me when lecture
our young female friends ON ths c1tprya-
gance of the age, although she ,e'niends
/ that tho men are ~ mucli ~ blame for Il
as the women. OF coursell never assent
4 TO this position and that tlleads 70 friendly
argument. froni which. in my OVID opinion
/ always gain The adypIAage- rtlIonghl i
must confess that am occasionally, over
borne By, q, torrent 9f words. hespesilly
when some frleudly nsighbfr espopsesn,t
wife \ side 0fs The q,lessi2s.S 1sa'i,h yases|
1 beatn hasty sT,slFsstts A'id 'sAl olssl ~
opportunity for new1' attack upoa,the
position Of the oneTny under more favor
able auspices ,.-sr,tp a,., srs;E ,W
My wife, detests ,hounces. (sks is too
stout to wear them, J has no hHpkering after
"moirs antique" and only knows of
"Honiton" by, having seen il, mentioned
in our daily paper To be sure she doesn't
believe all the criticism upon the fashions
which sho seas il that p ,rer, and she even
KOoS 30 iAt ~ " s"I tuNO ouc nNS TO luoh
that the editor himself believed them. /
think she is hardly jus. to the edlor--a
very clever fellow by the way, who never
meddles with anything but politics. except
Church matters. ladies' dresses. and fish
and who never gets into trouble as long
AS he sticks t" politics aud fish. 3D..
i Blu. to return to the black silk Dress
Some years ago I'll don't care to remember
how mnny). under the influence of ane
cess of attsctipn and n delusion in rsgard
TO my financial prospects. had male n
rash promise to purchase such MI article
for hoi especsl use and adornment but
had coupled the promise with the impor-
tant provi5o. "Sometinie" We had pro-
viously canvasssd the relative merits of
, calicues, cashmeIes, silks aud sltiiis, and
hnd decided that one good silk dress was
worth half dozen of any of the others,
not only fol its present purpose but ~
being more available in its later stages for
, the decoration Of the young scions of our
house, and II sly hint WAS thrown out that
IL spare "brcarh" out OF tie skirt might
. bo very nseful in ref,cng any coat Of mine
. that might stand in heed Of that operation
The .'sUinetiIne'' before alluded to has not
0 yet arrived. and from present appearances,
il is as far of Nh when the promise was
8 made. Still, is fingers in my wife 8 mem
T. ory. aud she occasionally brings it to my
e mind among, fear, many other uniui
| filled promises. e.. 7.t sgse ,a.,g..e
fI ..In regard 10, the. dress. you may do
4 pend upon having it ''sometime." but the
i treasures If which WAS speaking ara no
:. exactly available for that purpose at pres
ont" [ replied 'but can easily con
a vince you that We a.e ppss, seed OF them
r. Ara thuro not seven rosy checked cherub
=, (nt least yol call them so when they ar,
!. not in mischief, now sleeping; in happ,
;, unconsciousness Of money and its attend
# ant evils, each one Of them worth it
!, weight in gold ? I've heard you say s.
w many u time. Now atA moderate estimat
II. they will average fifty pounds piece
.r Even California gold is worth two hund,e
-. dollars II pound. So we have three hun
h dred and fifty pounds Of cherubs At wv
- hundred dollars pound, which, accord
,e ing to simple multiplied ion, makes sevent
,r THOUSAND dollars worth Of those littl
: heavenly bodies alone" ...f.
IN "Nonscnse, Pcrsy"-- .aa .r.. ...
"a ooh but it isn't nonsense. There
10 is figured according To your own estmat,
ne aud n very pretty little sum it makes {
u, begin the world with. Now, my dca
IS, what is my love ?''
Ii This was n poser. My wife looked u
" in haze of blank astonishment as he
~ mind grasped tho idea, and trembled f.
in fear she might say "nothing." and thu
,e overturn tho whole ground work of n,
ut theory. But as soon AS she had swalowe
1 the idea aud mentally digested it, 81
i replied, ..t..
ii "Why don't you ask me what the air
"a. worth for l could dispense with one {
an we'll us the other" .a,f7 a.s .E..
= thanked my wife for the compliment
;. and congratulated myself that she ha
drawn no worse com parison between m
=, love and the air and continued
y @a '.Weli, then, what do you consider Il
~, air worth ~ ,sa gea a-f iseei.} du.5 F..
~ ~ 81 shan't answer any such foolish que
!, ton, for. if you so on with your calculs
ii tions, you'll make us out milionnireS."
X ''That's what l intend to do and
ii think mn safe IN putting down tho lo'
.fs at a hundred Thousand. Then there
er my honor, which is worth at least as mut
" as the love- .,..-.f f.r., f..g .-
ed "Pve no doubt of it," interrupted IL
,d wife
inn ''For you wouldn't value the one witt
ct, out tile other. So there you have the su
or total of three items salone--nherubs seven
lid Thousand love hundred thousand al
honor as much more making the snug su
rd Of more than quarter OF million
IN dollars, to say nothing of other items th
rh might be mentioned, and which wou
ed perhaps double the amounts besides Ga
~ ON hand amounling to one dollar and scye
.rk teen cents"
in paused FOR my dear wife to appreois
IN the full force of my reasoning. (she is
Ihe little slow NJ figures, aud when she h
.na time 10 turn the VIII. ,la kIhie,.t in her mir