Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-30

becomes OF the joints after tney leaVe the
table. e lasa aalt
Il have no doubt Of Bridgst's honesty,
Julius" I
"Oh no--of course not. But I do
think, Melissa, it is wife's duty to pay
some sort of attention to her hus sband's
pocket" .a#
"Our bills are not disproportionately
large, Julius" ....,.
"They must be, my dear-they must
be- Positively it is enough to frighten
one, Just to run over these items in the
housekeeping accounts. More sugar
raisens--olive oil-oyster crackers Me-
lissa. do | keep restaurant ? 1t not
where do these things go?
Mrs. Ives was silent. 2'' ''
"Bread- -steaks-roasting joint--two
tons of coal-four boxes of kindlin2 wood.
Upon my word !"
Still Mrs, Ives maintained complete
taciturnity.
Melissa" said her husband, placing
the bill emp haticly on the table, 1--WE
must turn over a new leaf-we must, pos
itively. This extravagant system of
housekeeping isl going to waste me out of
house and home. Can't you somehow re-
trench p
"How p ....... -
In thousand ways my dear. Why
my mother never spent half the money
you contrive to spend and there were
twelve of us"
"Your mother lived on farm, Julius
and burned wood from her own forests
The butter, cheese and vegetables were
from her farm barnyard and pasture.
do not think it fair to institute compar
ison between her expenses and mine" .
"Oh, that's the way you women all tall
said Mr.. Ives impatiently. "All know
is there must be screw loose somewhere
You must econimize Melissa"
c- But Julius"
"My love, don't you see I'm just light
ing my cigar ? never can smoke whe
NV ,aind is disturbed. Suppose you dis
MS, the subject. I'm sure that state
NV wishes on the subject with suficier
distinctness.
Mrs Ives bit her coral lip, and sewe
G uS n.av vigorously on the sleeve of lltt
'he awL; 4,,s no " cloth jacket. But if her thot
on 'uie NV W descended in shower bath
ike could ha'e W. LIS Ives' devoted hes
elf words on Mr. Ju...us ives ., aovoss. -: co. ~ =.
out out how they would have starts.~ him from u
no calm complacency of his mood.
in "Yes, III economize," thought Mr.
he Melissa, vindictively dragging the thrca
and through the seams "l'll give him enoue
,be. of retrenchment. Why will man reli
an ouish his dignity so far as to interfere
veet matters he cannot possibly understand
.ok l wonder if he thinks family of MI
red ne, sons can live on a pint of milk al
dav two roasted potatoes per diem? | wo
der if he suspects that Imake all t
he'd bread and pies, and weigh out all the
Mr., and coffee, and superintend every thi
tory myself. He might know it if be took
an. trouble to inquire, instead of indulglng
the such sweeping denunciations. wond
if be sussects trim my own bonne
her Its almost enough to make women wi
had she had never got married"
20 af But then Melissa thought of the re
nucb little ones fast asleep up stairs, and ct
tbis cluded on the whole there we're some 81
her. beams in her lot =,
loset And Mr.. Julius putting away at
han. cvlinder of tobacco leaf over the colu
4 no Of the evening newspaper, mentally Q
exer. graduating himself on having put
70 as idea or two into the system OF dome'
1t of arrangement.
hus- ,.- :,
and "Haloo, Elmer why surely this ii
ch it you !" :.
race. be-" coolly remarked the handsome
rosv tlemen who had lounged into Mr.. L
dim. office. Sand I've brought Harry l.
,oked argue with me-you remember him. d
lands you 2" h.,l -. ,,.,, .,;.L
latter 'Rememoer Nun S. Sno'N
were And we haven't met before since our
Ct bv lepe DAYS. Well, ! declare this is
dain. incidence. You'll both of you come
dine with me at two. won't you? .
,ealle j am sure you haven't any other
He eapement, and | should like to intro'
dark ' YOU to my wife and babies"
ends "Ill come" said Elmer, promp
heless I'll engage to bring Lamarque with
er lin "But you are not goipg?" ..
rat;ve ~ must-l've no end of bushes
transact but we'll have a regular
- pow.wow Of chat at dinner, julie
week boy !" ~. ,., !.
arioIs ,ie,, lie band of chubby faced childre
,i'.le i: school that morning when the little
:. ona,n, IAN bow came knocking at the door wi
note :, IL,
81 shall bring two old college
IN, Elmer and Lamarque to dinner
D 'alh w said. "Let the meal be on the table
9 nine iUs tually at two" -
d you Julius
y ''N Mrs Ives folded up the note al
Ham positcd it in her sccretaire, with
IL bnyarinp around her m0u