Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-08-31

er cup OF coffee-it is perfectly delicious
Luke pushed his chair back with vel
geance, and took up his stand with h
back to the fire, both hands under h
coat-tails.
Please, sir" said the servant deprt
catlngly advancing, the gas bill--the ma
says, would you settle it while"
No r roared Luke, tempestuously.-
Ieil the man to go about his busines.
have no small bills this morning, and
wont be so prosecuted"
Mary retreated precipitately. Clar
raised her long, brown eyelashes.
=" DO you know Luke" she said demure
ly, 81 think you would feel great dea
better if you would just do as Freddy does
lie fiat down on the floor and kick YOU
heels against the carpet for while. 1t.
an excellent escape-valve when your chol
er gets the better of YOU
Luke gave his mischievous sister-in-lav
glance that ought certainly to have ami
Inflated her, and walked out of the room
closing the door behind him with bang
that would bear no Interpretation. Their
Clara came around to her sisters side, ,and
buried her pink face in Evelyn's neck.
:" Don't scold me, Evy, please-I know
I've been naughty to tease Luke So"
"fou have spoken nothing but the truth,
said Evelyn, quietly, her coral lips com.
pressed and scarlet spot burning on eth.
er cheek. "Clara, sometimes wonder
how can endure the daily cross of my
husbands temper"
'' Temper !" said Clara, with toss d
her chestnut brown hair. And the pool
dear fellow hasn't the least idea how dis.
agreeable he makes himself~
Only this morning." said Evelyn, he
punished Freddy with unrelenting severi-
ty for fit of ill-humor which he himself
has duplicated within the last half hour.
am not moralist, but it strikes me tla.
the fault is rather more to be censured in
fuil-grown reasoning man than in a
child.
Evelyn said Clara gravely, "do YOU
suppose he is beyond the power of a
cure p
Il hope not; but what can / do p
Shut him up as he did little Freddy ?"
Evelyn's merry, irresistible laugh was
checked by the arch, peculiar expression
in Clara blue eyes.
"The remedy needs to be something
short and sharp" said Clara, "and the
dark closet system combines both reoui.
sites. Tears and Mysteries are PLAYED out
long ago in matrimonial skismishes, Won
know, Evy."
Nonsense" laughed Mrs. Darcy, ris-
ing from the breakfast table in obedience
to her husbands preremptory summons
from above stairs, while Clara shrugged
her shoulders and went to look for her
work basket.
Luke was standing in front of his bu-
reau drawer ainging shirts, collars, era
vats, and stockings recklessly on the bed
room floor.
T" I'd like to know where my silk hand
kerchiefs are, Mrs. Darcyr' he fumed.-
Such state as my bureau is in. It's
enough to drive man crazy
" It's enough to drive woman crazy,
think J! said Evelyn hopelessly, stoop-
ng to pick up few of the scattered ar
.icles. " You were at the bureau last. 1t
5 your own fault"
My fault Of course its my fault p
'narled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's poodle
kick that sent it bowling to its mistress.
Anything but woman's retorting, re-
tongue. Mrs. Darcy, wont
tand it any longer"
Neither will / l' said EVELYN. reso.
utely advancing, as her husband plunged
nto the closet for his business coat, and
promptly shutting and locking the door,
l think I've endured it quite long enough
-and here's an end to it r'
Mrs. Darcy! open the door r' said
luke, scarcely able to credit the evidence II
t his own senses.
i shall do no such thing said Mrs.
Darcy, composedly, beginning to rear Il
ange shirts, stockings, and flannel wrap
ers in their appropriate receptacles.
Mrs. Darcy !" roared Luke at fe-
er-heat of impotent rage, what on earth 81
0 you mean 2?
" l mean to keep you in that clothes
ress, Mr.. Darcy, until you have made up u
our mind TO come out in more amiable a
anne of mind. If the system works with c.
reddy, it certainly ought to with you
nd am sure your temper is proving W
uch more intolerable than his.' a
There was dead silence of full sixty
conds in the closet, then sudden burst
vocal wrath. tt
Bot Evelyn went on humming a saucy Z
tie opera air, and arranging clothes. 1T