The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-11-02

am absent, you can let bridget sweep all
dust my room; but, added as took-u
my hat and coat if there be one thing
dislike more than another, it is Friday
; cleaning r. @
) A WIFE WANTING MONEY. 70
Mrs, Gray one morning asks her husbap
for some money. The children dresse
and the large gas bill account for the dt
demand, but the irritable husband is di,
posed to find fault i believe he says
the servants burn gas all night, and if the
do, it is your fault b.,
4 do not think, my dear, that the SCI
wants are at all wasteful of it. .-'
! Then there is something the matte
with the confounded meter, said. Can
the children get at it. and set the registe
ahead in some way?'
My wife laughed. ~
oh you needn't laugh ! continued: it
a probable thing, as they are given to a
kinds of mischief. I'll tell you what vii
do. I'll go directly down to the company,
office, and enter complaint about the me
ter And put on my hat resolutely, an,
opened the door to depart. Il.
But you are not going without leaving
me some money, hope, she said.
There it is again!' | exclaimed; money
money! it is always money with you wo
men. Well, how much do you want? Com,
don't keep me standing here forever, wher
you know | am in hurry -|'
Can you spare me twenty dollars" she
asked
MOI / answered. i4. -m.'
Fifteen then 2 she suggested. r IN
Scarcely, repiied; but there are twelve
and now don't ask me for money again in a
week ,TG9I
But what shall I do about the childrenIs
spring clothing p she inquired after paying
the gas bill, shall not have any great
amount left ~s~ ~ 80 en-
4 don t know, norI don't care what you
will do, Isreplied. The fact is, the child
ren are well enough dressed. L don't APP
prove OF arraying them them in velvets and
laees.' edI o. b.fas1a, -. ssasal ueH. ,.F .aIGi
Fifteen or twenty dollars, she answered
smiling, would scarcely be sufficient fol
the purchase Of any quantity of velvets and
laces. No! all that want is to have tht
children appear clean and respectable. | cant
abide to see them III soiled and tatterec
clothes sa4 ~ A'
But they look well enough to me, said
don't see why their present clothes are
not good enough for them to play around
in, as they do; nor why it's necessary tc
buy them anything new
If you had to attend to the nendng OF
their clothes, as do, you wouldn't ask me
why wanted to get them new ones
We'll, WELL, said, here are ten dollars
more; but don't, for goodness sake, ask me
for money again until - r" 81.
Until, interrupted my wife smiling 4
want new bonnet-which will be next
week.'90 T-ss. 1.r@F Ill.
My DEAR l said, impressively, don't
speak to me of bonnets Ii there be one
thing dislike more than another, it is to
hear about new bonnet Y
But am very economical as regards
bonnets, you know, my DEAR she said. i
only have four year. whereas most ladies
have dozen ,-....- 81
"A dozenp | exclaimed astonished =
why that is equal to one month 1t is
preposterous Does your milliner have
many such customers p Pa q
oh, yes; Miss Modiste assures me that
there are some of her purchasers who get a
new bonnet every month";
4 am very thankful, my DEAR said,
that you are not one; but, it appears to me,
that four hats a year are more than you
can afford to have, especially in such hard
times as these are, when every one should
study economy. Don't you think you could
get along with two a year?'
i really don't see how it would be posi-
BILE, she replied; because ~ every three
months the fashions change, and wouldn't,
you know, like to be out of fashion,
'Well the fact is, my dear, Ireplied
that we must economist somewhere; and I
think we can best dispense with new bon
nets. AS for being in the fashion, it is all
nonsense. If there be one thing dislike
more than another, it is seeing you forever
studying fashion plate '' -.''-
4 am not forever studying fashion
plate my wife answered with spirit; it is
rarely, indeed, that | see one. If you want
to economist, why don't you stop smoking,
and leave off drinking wine? You men are
always accusing us of being extravaganza,
and spending our time before the mirror;
but in my opinion, and in that of all the
thinking portion Oh the sex, too, we are sell
dom as extravagant or as vain as your sex.
You'll spend almost as much for one dinner
downtown, as would suffice to feed your
whole family well for week AS for vani-
ty, have never seen the. greatest Of co.
quotes stand longer before mirror than
have you when engaged in tying an elabo-
rate knot i'll your cravat' o1 gr
Leaving this pretty quarrel asst stands
though the intelligent reader will, Of course,
stlrmise that the lady ultimately has her
own Wayne close our extracts from Bar
ry Grays charming book! with this little
sketch Of a...7 a.' ...a"s7