Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-09-06
M Misesllanu.
Late to Dinner.
A SKETCH FOR THE NEWLY MARRIED.


Mr.. Younghusband wore very pleas
ant face /; and there was no reason in the
wide world why he should not. lie walked
along with most delighted air, as one
should do whose temporal matters were
all conveniently adjusted. He had the
prettiest wife in the town, and the pleas
antest house. His business was in very
prosperous condition and altogether there
was nothing at that moment, and nothing
in prospect, that could bring cloud on
the countenance of Mr.. Lowell Younghus-
band.
So he glanced in the shop windows as
he passed, and considered how such and
such a dress would become his darling
Emma. He studied the temptations in
the iewelry windows. He mentally meas
ured the carpets. He delayed long before
the print and picture shops; and Curl
cusly surveyed the house-furnishing estab-
lishments. Everything attracted his at
tention and the motive and thought in
all his speculationswas Emma-still Emma
He knew great many people, and had
something TO say TO them all. and some
thing pleasant, too. For with the thought
and mental presence of his charming wife
always with him. his words could not but
be sweet. The very atmosphere of the
honey moon vitalized and inspired all his
thoughts, and prompted all his words. He
was not only self-satisfied, but doubly so;
satisfied not only with his own self, but
with his other self: most complacent
and very agreeable individual. He was a
capital illustration of the words, happily
married"
| So, full of the things he would say, and
Of the pleasures and purchases he would
: propose to his wife-the very happiest,
most beaming and most estate individual
in the whole city of Philadelphia, Mr.
!, Lowell Younghusband stood upon his own
door step at last. he looked up and down
the square, as if to say, :" who but me :"
He was all ready TO welcome the light,
airy step of his Emma when he should
!. open the door; for he calculated that she
: must have peeped through the shade, and
4 known of his coming.
: So she had, bu. she did not rush to meet
i him, nevertheless. Nor was she in the
x \ parlor Nor was she in the dining room.
e But if he saw nobody, he smelt something.
I, There was through the whole house, a
flavor of burnt vegetables and spoiled
: gravies and, as he somewhat impatiently
snuffed these odors, the premonition came
:. upon him Of spoiled dinner. That Ger
tainly was not pleasant; but he magnani
p mously resolved to make no complaints
. as his Emma was but young housekeep
er. And he had more than once said II
m m her, and she to him. that they never wouls
permit snch commonplaces as victuals arc
: drink to disturb the harmony Of their sym
(. pathetic and loving souls. Bot, however
love to the contrary, notwithstanding,
spoiled dinner is hard to swallow.
My serious conviction is, that the ex
pertinent of living upon love alone wi
TX, hardly answer. 1t is very meagre an
,ys insufficient diet. We are so constitute
on that not only our comfort, but our good bs
!. haviour, depends very much upon prope
''A food, neatly served. And cheerfulness an
ma good temper are better sauce than eve
ord hunger. There are two ways of mee,in
ny the appetite. One is, by satisfying
which is pleasant; the other is by drivir
sss sss it away, which is rather discouraging ar
Or o,i not at all enlivening to the spirits.
Mr.. Younghusband glanced at the pre-
... ty French clock over the mantel, and sa
con, 3. that he was full an hour behind time.
his conscience smote him for his tardine.
. 70 the looks of his Emma smote him wors
Pm as she presently came in, flushed, wea
and impatient. If there is anything th
can effectually destroy the pleasure
ones dinner, it is this-the feeling th
those who should enjoy it with you, ha
made themselves martyrs in getting
o0'' ready. If were man, would rafh