Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-19
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ed yesterday It was the biggest row We
ever bad in our family.
1t was one cold, rainy evening in the
carly part of December. We all sat down
to the supper table as usual, but not, ap-
parently, In our usual good humor.
BY cal, mean our family, which con.
sisted offather, mother, my two sisters,-
Clara and Lizzie,-Bob and myself.
Bob Carver was one of our family, as he
said, "by brevet." His mother and my
mother had been friends in girlhood, and
ha never outgrown their intimacy. Ever
since Bob had lived in the city he had
boarded at our house, and he seemed like
one of US.
He was a jolly good fellow, and appear.
ed to think q good deal of us all, espe-
cially Clara, who, by the way, did not seem
to care particularly for him, though, OF
course, she liked hum well enough" as
we all did. A ta4L,G
The relations between these two had
caused me some painful consideration. /
liked Bob very much, and would have been
glad to have him in the family more fully
than by "brevet" Beside this my regard
for him made me feel warm sympathy
for his unreciprocated affection for Clara.
was in love myself and thought that II
Maggie Oranston showed as much iu1if-
ference to me as Clara did sometimes to-
ward Bob, that should have been mex
pressibly miserable.
Beside this, Clara seemed to take good
deal of pleasure in the company of that
stupid Jim Bayne, whose chief delight
seemed to consist in talking about relig-
ion, politics aud other subjects, which
bored me intolerably. was nineteen,
and poetical.
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would have suited Bob better than Clara,
anyhow. They were both fond of music
and often played and sang together; but
they never got along smoothly together.
They did not appear to agree about any
thing but music, and they quarreled about
that. Yet they would still practice to-
gether. Their voices harmonized well,
and supposed they tolerated each other
for the sake of the music.
could never understand Lizzie's con-
duct toward Bob. 1t was absurd Some
of his ideas that she argued against with
all her might, when he stated them, she
as warmly defended in conversation with
the rest of US. believe she delighted in
being contrary. @ -...
Mother sometimes rebuked her for her
petulance to Bob, but father said it made
no difference,-it was customary for musi-
cal people to quarrel. He was quick
tempered himself, and Lib was more like
him than any of the rest of us were.
But to return to that December even
ing. AS have said, the weather was bad
For that reason, suppose, the boy had
failed to leave the evening paper.
When father came in, he asked for the
paper, and said, "Confound the boy"
When Bob came in, he asked for the
paper, and went up stairs to change his
boots, grumbling out something about
hanging the boy to the nearest lamp
post.
The girls were in bad humor, because
they had been unable to get out shopping
that afternoon on holiday shopping ex,
petition: while mother was worried be.
cause the bread had not turned out well
and the buckwheat cakes showed tenden.
Cy to become sour.
Mother said something about the bread
said she had been over the baking near.
ly all day, and 1t seemed as though It nev.
er would rise. She said, " / think either
the flour or the yeast is bad"
Father, just to be disagreeable, / sup.
pose, said, "a bad workman always com.
plains of his tools" tDa
Mother flushed up instantly. She was
good bread maker, and she knew It
She said, THAT don't apply to me. We
generally have as good bread as any one
Don't you think so, RobertH"
Bob, who looked as though he was
working out some problem in mental
arithmetic, answered, IL don't presume tc
criticise the fare at my boarding house"
This was improving ~ things rapidly
Bob calling our house his boarding house
After supper Bob went up to his room
and smoked cigar, and afterward camC
down in a more social humor In accor
dance with a previous arrangement, hG
and Lizzie sat down to practice an instru
mental duet.
l sat in the parlor reading, and, so Ions
as the music ran smoothly on, l paid nj
attention to il; but suddenly there was {
disc0rd, and then it ceased
You made a mistake there" said Bob
pointing to the music.
"No, it was you," said Lizzie, "ant
there is where 1t was" pointing at one o
the hieroglyphics with which composers
disfgure paper. 1.ra -..
beg PARDON said Bob; "but coulC
not have made such mistake, as 1 an
quite familiar with the piece. l played 4
with Miss Peterson the other evening, AnC
she made the same mistake you did, only
she saw 1t when pointed it out"
"Oh, yes she would see that black wa
white, If you pointed it out What hai
Miss Peterson to do with me ?"
| surely thought that you and / ha(
lived long enough in the same Louse to
gether, and were sufficiently intimate-i
not friendly-to allow me to differ will
you sometimes, and even to quote anthori
ty in support of my own opinion when /
was at variance with yours"
Whatever friendly relations there wer
need not continue. You have chosen {,
dehhe your position in the house as tha
OF mere ooarder and, as such, had n,
right TO nout another young lady in m,
Iace, ana claim that because she made
mistake, l must have done so, too. Yol
talk queerly about this music. anyhow. !
you are as familiar with the piece as vo,
pretend, why did you practice itY / khov
you are not right about that mistake Z
and don't believe you think you are
yourself"
If q man had given Bob Carver the Ii
so directly, l suppose he would haY
knocked MIN down. AS Ii was, he jump
ed up, without a. word, and went to hl
room
Lizzie played several very lively air
with great animauon, aud was as merTl
as bird until she went to bed. ~
Her apparent triumph over the matte
angeTed me, and / bldntly told her ali
had been ill.natured and unlady-like
whereupon she informed me that /" "ehil
dTen should be seen and not heard"
At breakfast, next morning, all Of d
had apparently recovered our good humoT
but there was something forced abog
Boos gayety, / noticed that he and LIZ
ne said nothing TO each other. When b
LETT, he said he would not be back to sup
per. (He always dined down town. A
this was not altogether unusual, no on
but myself appeared 10 notice Il, excep
Clare, who looked at Lizzie with d slrt Q
1 todd you sd' glance ' ~ a
Bob came home late that evening, an,
We Gid not see him until next morning
At breakfast Lizzie seemed about 10 Sel