Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-08-14
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i DECLARE said. your questions viii orve
me crazy. Get the dinner to suit yourself
Have fish and soup, and al the other things you
asked about: but don't trouble me with kitchen
matters. Talk to the cook, If You wish to con-
suit some one. and let me rest in peace
Again 1 said good bye, and went toward the
door.
Suppose before you go.' SAID my amiable
spouse, you give me some money, ior shah Is
Obliged to use considerable IN getting this dinner
Every dinner costs money, and such one as VIII
satisfy You cannot be prepared for nothing
sYou are certainly said, the most imPor-
tunate woman ever met l really have done
nothing for a month past but give you money
Well, how much do yOC want Come oont
keep me standing here forever, while you add up
on your fingers. Can't you say at once how
much yon require, and be done with it p
4 was trying she replied, 'to calculate the
sum necessary but
Don't for gracious sake interrupted, have
any butts in your answer. There, take these bills
1 added. placing some bank notes in her hands,
use what are necessary, and with the remainder
buy the summer silk for which you have been
teasing me for days past
My wife smiled sadly as she examined the
bills, and, shaking her head, said:
There is barely sufficient here to pay for the
dinner
1t is all l have said, to spare at present,
and if it be not sufficient to pay for both dinner
and silk dress, why, l am afraid you will have
to do withou: the dress
i wish,' said my wife, you were not going to
give this dinner, 1t will cost a great deal of
money. and have no doubt but that the anxiety
and care l shall have to undergo in attending
20 it, viii make me ill.,
'Oh, yes,' cried, that is Just the way you
women always talk. If you don't have money
with which to buy silks and laces whenever you
fancy to have them, why you Immediately de-
clare yourselves to be i'll. ! have seen too much
of that kind of thing since 1 was married to bs
greatly effected by it. l suppose your head
aches now, doesn't it loveP
'Yes, it does" she replied, fand how I am go
ing to keep up through the day I don't know
1t is not at all probable 1 shall be able to be
present at the dinner, and how you will get along
without ne, can't possibly imagine
'Oh, we'll manage well enough replied
don't give yourself any uneasiness that score.
table, and III see 20 the rest
My wife sighed.
Il will do the best can,' she said /; but, oh, l
do wish you had not invited your friends TO-DAY
want the dinner to look and taste as nice as
it is possible for any to be; but the time have
to prepare it in is so short, that ! doubt if / can
do justice to it,
1t was evident to me that my wife really
| feared the dinner might prove failure. So, af-
ter moments hesitation, l said
My dear, is the money jus. gave you sufi-
cient to purchase your sumner silk p
My wife frightened up Immediately.
oh, yes she answered, more than enough
Very well then,' l replied, use it for that
purpose and let the dinner go'
No she said, you and your friends would
| be disappointed. The dinner will be ready at
six O'clock
! 'Confound the dinner, said, L won't givsit
at all 1t has already caused me more trouble
than it is worth. Besides you are not vel en-
Ough to see to it. and I'll tell my friends that
you are ill.'
But that viii be scarcely true,' she said; al
though l am not well, l am far from BEN i'll. ;
Never heed that l said my mind is made
| up. So you neei not think any more about the
dinner. have decided to dine at the .Nisison
DOree' with my friends, so they viii no; lie dis
appointed after ALL
Except said my wife, smiling, iii not hav.
ing me 10 preside at the table,
True, my DEAR replied, but then we Will
toast you in goblet Of the Flower Of NeCkar
And we did.