Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-26
NYEs. PULLET-S MISTAKE.

MIR. PULLET7S MISTAKE.
Mr.. Pullet was not only onesof the solid
men of our little city in regard to finan-
cial matters, but also in respect to those in
tellectual properties which are classed I'M
der the title of common-sense. Neverthe-
less he was led by human nature or some
other unfortunate element in his compost
ton into one error which, for time, made
life nauseous draught to him, no matter
howthe, might try to flavor it with the most
honeyed Santa Cruz rum and the oiliest
old Bourbon whisky that his grocery at
forded.
AS was natural and proper, Mrs. Pullet
had something to. do with starting her hus-
band toward his blunder. There would be
no reality in marriage if women were not
to have an influence over the characters
and careers, of their companions in. life.
They do; they save them something, and
they cost them something; they get them
out of this trouble, and get them into that /;
being IN the average and on the whole ben
eficial We must consider that it is not
their fault if there is a Law of Compensa-
ton. We may reasonably ask, also, what
is the use of Mr.. Emerson's discovering a
lawsif it is not put in practice 2rrnT an,
Refreshed and encouraged by these
glimpses of grand distractions, let us pro-
coed with our story.
One evening Mr.. Pullet perceived that
Mrs. Pullet was lying in wait for him.
She kissed him when he came from the
"store;" she crowned the tea-table with
his two favorite luXuries, honey and milk
toast; she repeated ytbe compliment Of
some old lady concerning his Cooking SO
young for man of thirty-seven and,
greatest of all, she did what every bache-
lor enormously prophesies that his wife
will habitually do; she took away his mud
dy boots and brought him his slippers.
Since that notifying failure of hers in at
tempting to get into high society by join
ing she Pontificalian church against her
husband 8 will, the little woman had been
less given than formerly to demanding her
own way, and more to coaxing for it.
Mr.. Pullet was not brute nor fool enough
to show that he saw through her cajoleries
He had learned to make the best of her,
and to take with contentment such petting
as he might get not exacting that it should
spring altogether from unselfish motives.
With the modesty which good sense draws
from the little Gdisappointmen of life he
had come to say: am no great affair of
a man, and must not demand that my wife
shall be wonder of woman" SO he
stroked Mrs. Pullet's- hair when she
brought him the slippers, and resolved to
grant her the desire of her heart il it were
at all rational : s., ~. c..-s
"My dear, Mrs. Ottoman has been here"
remarked the lady, as soon as she judged
the gentleman ripe for her proposition. Il
Mrs, Ottoman was a well descended per
son who had lately set up fashionable
boarding house across the way, and whose
stringency in selecting her inmates is
shown by the fact that she took in no gen.
tleman who wore paper collars. AS Mrs.
Pullet always had an, eye aloft in social
matters, she was lpOlitesto Mrs. Ottoman
for the sake of knowing her select board
erS.
"Well?" blandly inquired Mr.. Pullet,
helping his wife along in her communica-
"She just dropped in to ask a favor of
u.s." continued the encouraged lady. "She
is expecting a Captain and Mrs. Steinway
OF the regular army, who are coming here
to muster in the volunteers; that is, the
Captain is to muster them in, you know
and he .bringsll his wife. Well she hasn't q
room vacant, and she's perfectly miserable
about it, for she's afraid they'll go to the
hotel, and she says they are elegant people
and she hates to lose 'em. But in two
weeks shell have,a room vacant andsso, if
she can only get somewhere for them TO
stay till then, she'll be so much obliged"
SWELL couldn't Widow Brown take
them?" asked Pullet, whoasaw what his
wife was driving at, and did not fancy the
idea of dodgers. ~ s1sa tss esR
"Oh! they wouldn't stay ,tbeas.-, Mrs.
Brown hasn't springfield in the house,
and her window curtains are old, faded
things and her bedroom carpets are sights.
And they are such elegant people! I
thought, Joseph, that just to accommo-
date, now, we might try to put ourselves.
out little, you know" 1s 100 -
Here her expression became yery be-
seeching, and her hand stole coaxingly in
to her husbands IS
MIR. Pullet felt a strong repugnance to
the proposition He had none of that
vanity which spurred his wife to struggle
occasionally for an entrance into fashiona
BILE society and he had a pride in the fact
that he was solid man." with good
bank account and a business which made
him independent of makeshift means of
living. To be sure, taking dodgers for a
fortnight, just to accommodates would not,
hurt his credit; but then he did not like
the look of the thing as it appeared from.
his long-estabhshed, solid standpoint of
selfrespect. $500.
'sMrs. Ottoman said she was sure you
would like then" urged the anxious Mrs.
Pullet. Captain Steinway has served
long time in the Rocky Mountains, and Wis
lted the highest peaks, and seen a great
deal OF the world. His wife was Swami
merriam. she isyery literary. Mrs. Otto
man says she writes for something. and
reads geology and all those things.
MIR. Puilet began to look at the proposi.