Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-13

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Mr.. Early, as soon as his speech was restored
him. taking advantage OF hus bands prerog.
ative, right established by precedent M
least of questioning In such matters.
"lell you what ! want IL foF7 Obi Of course
will am going TO invest it for YOU It.
viii bring in n hundred per cent and fnore
too, just as long as Mrs Webb ~ tenant of
yours" ai tte y
"How-what DO you mean9h boo
~ why, dont you see--thefes Two tens there
in that roll, and plenty Of fves'-boldinc
out7the same pretty hand that had so unoern
moniously damned up the river of speech
howing from her husbands mouth bat a mo
ment before--Noniy fhirty.five dollars Won
know, which, with the e fteenE I've got viii
make fifty in ALL and am going TO proyjde
Mrs. Webb and Catherine the means of nav.
ing their rent easily every quarter as soon as
tits due TO be serious--I have told YOU that
they depended on sewing for a living. and
now that sewing machines have thrown seam
stresses almost entirely out of business. il ia |
very hard for two poor women, with delicate
hea!th to scrape together sixty dollars svery |
year to pay their rent with and provide them
selves with the neeessares of life besides. So
am going to buy them such an article az
that, said she, pointing TO splendid sewi no
machine that made conspicuous article of
Iurnlture In the room, (which some kind
iriend--not you, OF course-was it really you,
though 1ihever suspected anything half AZ
sensible of you---sent me last New Years ana
a more acceptable present never received.
and somebody never did aud never will
make better investment Of his money than
that--unlsss he thinks fit to give me the
tblrtyrhys dollars want now. Don't you
sec how, with that in the house, have al.
ready saved you more than it has cost, by IS
doing my own sewing, and have still found
plenty OF Time to fold my hands besides T?
And with such q machine Mrs. Webb aud
Nate could make themselves comparatively
independent aa nsl y'3..t -
We'll well, Mary, when man is defeated
BY his own wife, he doesn't exactly like, for
his dignity'e sake, to acknowledge IT, IL il ,
equivalent to letting her wear the--you know
what" ,N&IltE fsa5ti
Nohl never lmind your dignity. I was
never particularly impressed BY 1t; and as for
wearing the articles of which you speak, any
smart wife manages TO do that anyhow, lust
as do now when you give me that--ten and 4
Ien are as7eny, and fivs are twenty five, and 4
zen are thiriy-ive, and fifteen have already Il
nakss fifty. That's right, and you are dear {,
yood husband
The pretty, delicate hand closed OYER the
coveted treasure, and the full rosy lips per
ormed ihelr. appropriate Office, and it was
lard totell which seemed to be the best salts 4 .
led husband or wife .1saf +
Before many days went by, there was I
oylal surprise at-ehe unpretending dwelling
1 Widow Wablk I'D her daughter, lCatharibei o
delicate girl o eighteen or thereabo1tlf
eemed pale and efiaeated from recent inJ
ess, but at the sight Of the splendid and
laborats sewing nhchine--thatat the first y.
be could not believe but It had been left 81
here by mistake, until she had read and re- p
cad more than once the accompanying card "
nth her own name in fall, and the number of z,
er residence upon 1.-THE blood danced joy-
lily from her heart up TO her cheeks a1d
ngled In her very fingers ends, at the Ger.
I'M prospect OF better days 10 store for them
AZ first they could obtain no clue to their
nd benefactors but the truth finally leaked
it And II ever gratitude sweled the hearts
human beings, it did theirs toward their
ndlord, whom they had hitherto considered
harsh and unrelenting and his pretty, kind
aarted wife ~.
When the next rent day came, Mr.. Early
I'd MOTTO call upon Mira, Webb for his money.
was promptly brought to him, and paid go
retuliyi that he joeosely remarked to his
ne that ne bad halt mind TO try the expert
ent OF a sewing machine on each Of his ten. i
lts TO see if it would have an equally good
fect. NOnly, othellollike, should lind my
cupation gone, said he, "and would have
thing to do but sit over the fire" M
"Apd make love TO me," intefpossd bis
fe. unt{griEsf
- and wait for the money to come 10
}, while Hose my business habits entirely"