The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-11
WHEELING. WEST VA, MONDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 1851

Selection from Mrs. Candles Curtain
Leetures---3Ir. CaudIe has Lent an
Acquaintance an Umbrellas. Mrs.
Caudle Lectures Thereon i., -sIs
That's the third umbrella gone since
Christmas. What were you to do?
Why, let him go home in the rain, to
be sure. pm very certain there was
nothing about him that could spoil.
Take cold, indeedI He doesn't look
like one of the sort to take cold. Be-
sides, he'd better taken cold than taken
our only umbrella. Do your hear the
rain, Mr. Caudle2 say ,.do you hear
the rain? And, as Pm alive, If it isn't
Saint -Swithinis dayl Do you hear it
against the windows? Nonsense; you
don't impose upon me. You can't be
aslsep with such q shower as that! Do
We'll, that's a pretty flood, i think, TO
last for six weeks, and ne stirring all
the time out of the house. Poohl doI't
think me fool, Mr.. Caudle. Don't
insult me- He return that umbrella!
Any bodylWould think YOU were born
yesterday. As if any body ever did
return an umbrella There-do you
hear it? Worse and worse! Cats and
dogs, and for six weeks-always six
weeks. And no umbrelIa! '-s
L should like to know how the chill
dFen are to go to school tomorrow.
lASy buAu 20 through buCu weather,
I'm detsrmined.- No. they shall stop
at home, and never learn any thing
the blessed creatures i-sooner than 20
and get wet. And when they grow up
lIlwondOr who they'll have to thank
for knowing nothing; who, indeed, but
their father People who can't feel
for their own children ought never to
DO fathers. -4.--..4 = str f-i
But know why you lent the UNI
brella. oh, yes; know very we'll. /
| was going out to tea ut dear mothers
tomorrow; you knew that, and you
did 1t on purpose. Don't tell me; you
hate me 10 go there, and take every
mean advantage to hinder me. But
don't you think it, Mr.. Caudle. No,
sir; If it comes down in bucketsfuIl,
pll TO all the more. No; and 1 won't
have II cab. Where do you think the
Lice notions of that club of yours. A
c;.b, indeedi Cost me sixteenpence at
acknowledgements, two and eight
pence, for there's back gain. Cabs, in
deed should like to know who's to
pay tor 'em7 L can't pay for 'em, and
I'm sure you can't if You go on as you
do, throwing away your property and
b. gearing } our children-buying um-
brellaS! -Fs- a-s w. f#I..-
Do you hear the rain, Mr.. Caudle? /
say, do you hear it? But 1 don't care,
III 90 TO mothers to- morrow. will !;
-
! the A,ity, and you know that will give
me my DEATH Don't call me a foolish
= oman-it's you that's the foolish man,
You know1 can't wear CLOGS, and, with
no umbrella, the wees sure to give me
a eold-it always does. But what do
may be laid up for what you care, as
| dare say shall, and a pretty DOCTORS
bill there'll be-. 1 hope there will /!
It will teach you to lend your umbrel-
las. again. I shouldn't wonder If 1
Ictught my death yes and that's what
| you LEM the umbrella for. Ofcourse.
Nice clothes 1 shall get too, trapesing
| throu h weather like this. My gown
and bonnet will pe spoiled quite.
Needn't Iwear 'em then2 Indeed, Mr..
Caqdle, shall-wear 'em. No, sir, I'm
moi. going out dowdy to please yop or
any body else. Gracious knowsI it
isn't often that step over the threshold;
indeed, L might as well be a slave at
once-better i should say. But when
do go out, Mr. Caudle, 1 choose to go as
= lady. Oh ! that rain-H it isn't
enough to break in the windows. "
Ugh ! do look forward with dread
for Tomorrow. How 1 am to go TO
mothers, Pm sure L can't tell, But if
Idle, I'll do it. No, sir, won't borrow
an umbrella. No; and you shan't buy
one. Nov, MIR. Caudle, only listen TO
this, If yea bring home another um-
brella, l'll throw it in the street. I'll
have my own umbrella, or none at all.
Il Ha and it was only last week had
a new nozzle put 10 that umbrella. Pm
sure if I'd have known as much as do
now, 1t might have gone without one
tor me. Paying for new nozzles, for
other people to laugh at you. oh, it's
Iall very well for you,. you can go to
Hleep. You've no Thought of your poor
| patient wife and your own dear chill
dren. You think of nothing but lend
/ in bral1n1 Z
| Men, indeed i-call themselves lords
| of creation !-pretty lords wnen they
| can't even take care of an umbrella. Z.
know that walk tomorrow will be
] the death of me. But that's what YOU
| want-then you may go to your club,
and do as you like-and then, nicely
| my poor dear children will be used
But then, sir, then you'llbe happy. Oh,
don't tell mel 1 know you will. Else
| yon'd never have TENT the umbrella!
/ You have to go on Thursday about
that tisummons- and of course you can't
go. No, indeed, you don't go without
| the umbrella. You may lose the debt
/ for what i care-it won't be so much as
spelling your clothes-better lose it;
| people deserve to lose debts who lend
umbrellas. "a a.-rt 40. .EH .las-
! And 1 should like to know how I'm
/ to go to mothers without the umbrella?
! On, don't tell me that 1 said IVOuLd go
I-that'sl nothing TO do with it; nothing
at ALL She'll think I'm neglecting her,
and sthe little money we were 10 have
we shan't have. at all--because we've
no umbrella. u#r ..a - l,. r.
The - children, too. Dear things!
| They'll be sopping wet; for they shan't
stop at home-they sban't lose their
learning; it's all their father will leave
'em, I'm sure. But they shall go to
school,. Don't tell me 1 said they
shouldu't, you are SO aggrayating, Cau-
| die; yon'd spoil the temper of an angel.
They shall go to school :. mark that.
And if they get their deaths of cold it's
! not my fault-I didn't lend the um-
brella. saE.5 II
Here" says Caudle in his MS. 81
| fell asleep, and dreamed that the sky
was turned into green calico, with
whalebone ribs; that, in fact, the whole
world reyolyed under a tremendous
sumbrellR.-DOWgtds JeTr0ld.
THE Next HoUsE.-Question has
arisen whether the fact that some OF
the States will not be represented when
the xLth Congress assemblies, on the
9Th of March. will not deprive the Re
publieans of a two-thirds vote; but that
4 i.Question is satisfactorily answered by
the following list of the States that are