The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-04-17

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CHAPTER 1.
THE NEW HOUSE.

. nouso, Of are you nOt9 lou uOn't KNOW ]
Well, Idol You owned up yesterday that th
clear profits Of your business this year was owe
twenty thousand dollars, and il we're eyergoin
TO live in brown-stoDe 'front.' new's the tint
You don't make twenty thousand dollars ever
year cutting up pork, or, If you expect to afle
this, It's high time we was taking our prope
position before the world. /, Tor one, intend I
, 60 out little more than have. I've got thing
TO 20 with, and intend to CO.
You're afraid people will make light Of US q
well as our lard oil? Fiddlesticks. Rasher!
wish you would quit them everlasting pms. H.
vulgar to pun; very low species OF wit, indeed
heard Mrs. De Tongue say 90. the night wa
70 her reception. You can't help IL; you mus
interlard your conversation with emp Goo
Lord, Rasheri whatever else you do, leave you
business behind you when you come home.
declare the very silk curtains in The parlor hav
an odor Of i'll Don't bristle up soP There
comes again; it's enough to drive q woman mad
You can't help 'cut,ing up;" you're SO used Il
IL? Now, look here, husband, we're going t
settle this matter shout the house this morning
or we're not going to settle it. IT you'll qui
that nonsense and listen to reason, Ill tell yol
what my ideas are; but II you don't, won't say
another word. Then you guess you'll keep on
and If You do YOU won't get me to keep STILL
That's just what you want; you'd be glad il
never opened my lips, though which of US is ca
pable of speaking with the most propriety III
leave other people to judge. ...
lpicked out house yesterday afternoon tha,
suits me; and, as woman is supposed to be the
best judge of such matters IS to the house she
lives in and has to stay in from one years end
to another why, il You can pay for it, that's
enough. It's a brown stone 'front.' four story
and basement, stoops and balusirades OF brown
stone, massive and handsome; st, lie Of archltec-
ture modern Italic, and not surpassed by any ol
similar sze in the city. | remember just what
the advertisement said, which was the reason
OF my going to see it.. til be finished next
week. Ii g twenty feet front, and commands
a BEAUTIFUL view Of the neighboring houses, which
are all Just as nice and arristocraticai as our
own. It's because liked the neighborhood so
well that | wanted that house in particular
"What s the price" Sixteen thousand dollars,
and considered cheap, considering the Avenue
and the Park. Eight thousand dollars will fur
nish it from gsrrst to cellar; library, pictures,
and everything, and We can get man to do it
all without taking any trouble ourselves. You've
got thirty thousand in the bank know, and,
with your business, you need not be afraid bu.
that you can "Save your baconn' q dear, M.
Rashei! il you re going TO continue so vulgar |
don't know as there III be ofany use IN our try
ing to get where wo ought to he.
The girls will be home from boardin' school
to their winter vacation in the latter part Of De-
cember, and | d like to get all moved, and set
tied, and furnished, and fixed before they come
home, just to give 'oin o pleasant surprise. -
There, Rasher! knew you had some latherly
feeling about you, if you had no pride. You re
in no hurry this morning, know. just wait
a minute till l get my bonnet and shawl, and
let IS 90 round and look at it.
Amt it a beauty? Them balusters are su
perb! Step 10 and look at the parlors; two and
an extension; and behind the staircase there's
sweet little room, which shall fix up as bou.
doir. III be a. much at home as a pig in
flower garden? Humph You ire extremely
to your VIE, my dear; but
sha MT resent It here, before all these workmen.
You can say what you please. ! suppose 1t was
my misfortune to marry man in the pork pack
ing business whose mind is always running
on all fours?-wiU you quit interrupting me, or
not? - whose mind is always running on his
business II you d only drop it at home and
in company. wouldn't care, SEEING it's made
US so much money; but, as it is, am almost
driyen--into pig. pen? - almost driven in
distraction. You IRE uncommon provoking this
morning, MIR. Rasher.
This is q splendid house 10 give party in
and l I've made up my mind to give the b egest
one of the season, il we get moved and settled
in time. You hate parties? OF course you do;
you hate every hing that like. You d be con
tented to sit down, and smoke your pipe, and
drink your sherry forever in the back sitting
room OF that little, mean, three STORY brick.--
You we no ambition, and you we no feeling To-
your wife. Oh, you needn't put your arm a.
round my waist and hugging me. with that fel
low there painting them friskoes looking right
at us. wish you d remember what we told
you SO often - that it Is dreadlully out of taste
to DO showing your family feelings public. When
we 60 out together you shouldn't speak to me,
no more'n wasn't there; 'stead of that, you
you invariably keep hanging around me, and
every once you burst out with: "Say, Marier,
did you hear that?' or, "Come here, Marier,
and SET side Of your husband while;" o. "Masier
wonder II the children are d0iug well at
home2' And that night we played lerieits to
Mrs. Fig Simmons's, you was judged to kiss
one OF the ladies for punishment, what did
you do but kiss me right before the hull crowd!
Wasn't that punishment enough? You needn't
Try to turn i, off with joke You know it was
, breach ofetiqurtte,i not actually immodest, TO
.hoose out your own wife in all that company
You was too ba>hful to choose an, body else;
md, besides, YOU hadn't got tired OF kissing your
,wn partner? Pshaw! that's all well enough to
home. | could see the Widow Granger look dis
appointed. Oh, now, don't color up, dear!-
Come up stairs and look at the next story
There! This is the apartment I've SCI tied on Tor
'urselye-; it's eighteen by tweeniy, and you al
ways like an airy sleep ng room: and what makes
PHEASANT for me, j. that 1t looks right over at
DR.. Yellow Docks house; and, as shall set here
! great DEAL can see their company gong in
md out. and when they take q ride ia their car.
iage, and how they dress their servants, and
They're very fashionable people, |
Ind they've made their money, every cent OF it, |
within five years.
Speaking of carriages, Rasher, we can't get a. |
ong any longer with our one horse and our sin |
lie chase. We must, after we go into this house,
nave pair OF black horses, and carriage with |
BUR arms upon il. and place Tor the iootman to
,old on behind. Sit down in the window here,
md take il easy; want TO settle it about the |
livery, etc. You don't see as there will be any
necessity for us going to the livery IL we have |
IN establishment Of our own; and as for arms, |
we'd better keep our arms in it instead Of on it?
Dear, dearl husband, wouldn'. hare had Mrs. |
Fltz- simmons heard you say that Tor the world;
he'd have had her whole set glggling about it |
he next time we came where she was. Oi course |
'ur servants must dress in livery; at least have
apes 70 their coats and buttons on their caps. |
Don't you know whether any OF tho Rashers in |
he dconntry, ever had acoatrofarms2 You
night consait the book Of heraldry and and out. |