The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1859-03-11

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see Il.
Mrs. Heath" !" said her husband, inter.
rupting her meditations somewhat rude
| ly, 1--WE have spent thirty dollars, more
than usual this year where can il have
gone to ?"
THE new harness." suggested Mrs.
Heath "that don't come every year.
you know"
"well'' there's twenty dollars OccOun
ted for"
eve had the carriage Fixed up when
you bought the harness" a" continued his
wife.
"well, that was eight dollars. that's
twenty eight, we don't speud that much
every yesr-hut the other two, where can
they have gomez"
CHANGING his eye over The pages Of the
memorandum book no continued
ON tell you what it Is. the newspaper
costs just two dollars, and we can do with
out Il, II isn't anything to eat, drink or
wear. / don't do anything with il, and
you only lay it away up 10 your chamber.
1t may as well be left out as not, and l u
stop my subscription right away"
ooh, said his wife, "you don't know
how much set by the newspaper.
always have a sort Of glad feeling when
| see you take it out OF your hat and lay
it on the kitchen mantlepiece, Just as
do when some Of the children come home;
and when am tired / sit down with my
knitting work and read. / can knit Just
as we'll when I'm reading, and feel so con-
tented. ] don't believe Queen Victoria
herself takes more solid comfort than do
sitting by The east window, on a summer
afternoon, reading my newspaper"
"But you are just as we'll off without
it." answered her husband, for want Of
anything else to say.
II never neglect anything else for read
ing, do ~" asked Mrs. Heath, mildly
'No / don't know as you DO" answer
ed her husband; "but il seems an extra
like
l shall stopit," he added, in tone that
showed plainly enough he wished to stop
the conversation.
81 shall take the paper" remarked his
wife, "if / have to 60 out washing to pay
for IT,"
This was not spokenangrily, but so rm.
ly that Mr.. Heath noticed il, though by
no Means remarkable for disoernment in
most matters. II sounded 80 different
from her usual quiet, ''as you think best, Z"
ri'Ut ~ ',~s-.>lls st~Pr~l a anaAnt To con.
slider whether il was at all likely she
would do as she said.
Mr. Heath was as kind husband. as
that indefinite description is generally un.
derstood that is, he did not beat his
wife, and always gave her enough to eat
More than that, be had certain regard
for her happiness, which already made
him feel half ashamed Of his decision, but
like many other men who have more OBJ
sdnacy than wisdom he could not bear
to retract anything. and above all, to be
convinced he WAS wrong, by woman.
However, witha commendable wish to
/ remove the unhappiness he caused, he
suggested that as the papers were care
fully saved, end she had found them in
teresting she could read them over again,
beginning at January, and taking one
week clear through the year, they would
just come out even he concluded, as If
il weer a singular fact hat they should
do so.
Notwithstanding the admirable propo-
siLion he still felt some uneasness. IL
followed him, as he walked up the pleas
ant lane to the pastures, and il made him
speak more sharply than was his want, il
the cows stopped while he was driving
them home, 10 crop the grass whore il
looked greenest and sweetest on the sun
ny slope. 1t troubled him till he heard
his wife call him TO supper in such a cheer.
ful tone, and he concluded she didn't care
much about the newspaper after all.
About week after this, as Mr.. Heath
was moving one morning, he was sur
prised to see his wife coming out, dress
ed as If for visit.
"I am going" said she, "to spend the
day with Mrs. Brown, / leave plenty for
you to eat !" and so saying, she walked
rapidly on.
Mr.. Heath thought about il just long
enough to say to himself, "she don't 90
a visiting to stay all day once a year,
hardly, and il's very strange she should
60 in hay time"
Very long the day seemed to him to
90 in for luncheon, dinner and supper,
aud TO have nobody to speak TO and End
every thing so still Fhe old clock licked
stiller than usual ho thought, the brood
Of pretty white chickens that we're almost
always peeping around the door, had
wandered of somewhere. aud left il still
Ter yet he even missed the busy click Of
the knitting needles that was apt to put
him out so, when he was doing any fig
uring.
IL am glad" he said to himself, as he
began to look down the road at sunset,
"lhat Millieent don't 60 visiting all the
time as some women do---theTe she is
just coming"
"How tired you look, F" said he, as she
came up "why didn't you speak about
il aud I'D have harnessed up aud come
after you IL
IL am not very tired" she answered /;
but her looks belied her indeed, her hus-
band declared she looked tired for a day
or two after.
What was his amaxement to see her 60
away the mart Tuesday in the same man