Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-11-18

coat he had taken off few moments previous.
Indeed !" .5.5.
Eyes. that. is SO, Mrs. Howard, and l
just want to tell you, that unless there's a
new leaf turned over
Will Howard did not finish the sentence,
but looked unutterable things as he left the
house. But as soon as he was gone Susie
threw herself upon the floor and commenced
crying again; and was thus engaged when
the door was thrown open, and her dearest
friend Kittie come bounding into the room;
Susie looked confused, as well she might,
and gave but sorry welcome to her visitor.
"Crying, as I live! why Susie?''
Kitty threw herself into chair, and fan
ned herself violently with her sunbonnet.
She was pretty, rosy-cheeked little body,
with eyes as bright as stars, and lips like
coral. that seemed only fit for smiles.
.Crying, as / live! why SUSIE"
land Iguess you'd cry, too, if you was
in my place." sobbed Sue. ,..,. :.
Perhaps so." Kittie emphasized the
word perhaps y as if the idea Of her cry
ing was very distant one indeed. -
"Yes. you would, | dare say" continued
Sue, tying her apron string into knots, and
then untyingr them; but you don't know
how to sympathize; if my husband was like
yours I'd be the happiest woman. alive.
.sAnd yet you gave poor Charlie the NIT
ten, didn't you. Sue, not more than a year
ago, too )" and Kittie's laugh had spice of
bitterness in it; chow happens it that you
are envying me my place, as his second
love 2"
ooh, Kittie y Sue looked up, beseeeh-
|ingly:
"Well, we'll! that's neither here nor
there but why isn't your husband as good
as mine, Susie? He's better looking than
Charlie; must acknowledge that, Sue, for
Charlie never was noted as being hand
some man !; your husband is better educat-
ed than mine, for he graduated twice, while
mine hasn'ta diploma to his name; your
husband has a profession mine a trade :
would you rather have. v Illiam carpenter.
or blacksmith, than a lawyer, eh, Susie?"
Susie WINGED
s'Well, what is it, your husband is
wealthier than mine, . continued the indefa-
tigable Kittie; ''you ive-in pretty white
cottage with four rooms, while our dwelling
is little brown old fashioned concern, with
two apartments in it !; your furniture is new
and nice, and plenty Of it ;. ours limited in
quantity, and second handed. !"
Susie pouted. ss.ss...s.s ssz5,.sl
''What is it, Sue come tell me- Kit
tie looked very coaxingly.
"W-h-y-why, he is pleasanter than.
William" stammered Sue. looking as gull
ty as possible. ss..I don't believe Charlie
ever spokea cross word to you in the world"
"And -kno.o he never did, returned
Kittie Lee"
.Welf, that is enough isn't it?''' asked
Sue, in the tone of a martyr.
Enough p s,5
es, to make me wish I had husband
like yours -pshaw! I don't care so much
for talents and education as for other
things and Sue looked as if she really
meant what she. said
II always thought that your husband was
naturally full as sociable as mine that used
to be the case, am sure" said Kittie, rock
ing herself in the little sewing chair. and
doubling her bonnet up, and tanning her.
self with it, as every one knows those good
old fashioned sun-bonnets can be metamor-
phosed into very passable fans. Kitty al
ways waved her bonnet violently when ex-
cited; and she was little excited then,
Judging from her heightened color, and the
tone of her voice.
Yes, yes, he used to be pleasant" !" ac-
knowledged Sue, a gentler mood coming
over her: he used to love me; there is
where the trouble is, Kitty; do you think
wife may entirely lose her husbands lover
There was world Of imploring tender
ness in the fearful blue eyes as the question
was asked. 5s.. -
q ..Yes [ do, Sue," was the earnest reply
s 'Oh Kittie," wept the young wife, .'if
William would only love me- He at first
strayed away from home only coming home
to his meals, and at bedtime next he grew
.unsociable, and now he is cross and impa-
tient with me, and hasn't spoken loving,
pleasant word, can scarcely tell when.''
why Sue p .s!s.g
"Oh what shall | do, Kitty, can one win
lost love back again % -
sWhen it is gone, entirely gone, Susie,
| think not, !" ssthe earnest reply; ssbut
if one little spark remains it may be famed
to its original brightness but, Susie, if
wife entirely looses her husbands love, al
lows the bright flame to die away to a spark,
and then blindly extinguishes that spark, I
think Of all miserable lots on earth hers is
the superlative; wife without love is like
IA flower without sunshine ;. a bird without
heavens pure air; she has no hope but in
the grave!
ssOh, Kittie." !