The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-03-25

'IA0 WY oeSt 1ell0W In town but he'd
be-be-bc condemned if he wazn't
the ugliest. 49,
1t was amusing to hear these two
agreeing through a veil of disagree
ment. As she sat in her low chair by
the evening lamp in their parlor, which
appeared as though by some mistake,
lawn had been walled in, carpeted,
curtalned and furnished, while tho
house, which might have been, had
been slowed away in a packing box;
ana looked over the annual report of
some Of the charities in which thev
were interested, and as he walked back
and forth, he would stop before her,
continuing tke,r comments, and say:
'sBut you know, my dear, that you
we're to blame about that!'' and as one
looked into his face and read the gen.
eral appreciation, one wondered if it
we're not very pleasant to be blamed.
"But," she would persist, chow
could ] help it Allen 2" and state the
difficulty. When he had once more
arrived at the centre Of the room from
the remote regions of the wall, he would
stop and answer:
"Yes, know, my dear,I should have
attended to that for you," and presently
"A1Ien" and "my dear would get so
strangely mixed up in the "to blame"
business that it was quite ont of the
question to tell which vas which. THAT
discussion would probably last the even
ing, accompanied by and sandwiched
With such matters as one Of the dispu-
tants playing game of chess with one
Of "the girls'-their daughters-or
visitor, some piano music, the solution
Of new puzzle, his lying on the sofa
while one Of the girls petted him aud
told some amusing incident of the day,
or the tea and cream crackers were
brought in on an immense silver tray,
with its appurtenances, the gift of his
fellow citizens for services rendered by
himself and lady during the time Of,
and after fearful confagratiop, in
which their house and purse had been
thrown open to the houseless. The tea
aud the trouble would be discussed to-
gether, and there was literally no end
to the quarreliug of Mr.. and Mrs.
Granger. Not house IN Arabia Pc
trea had more family jars but they
were all made Of very clear glass, and
filed with beautiful sreetmeats.
Sour Postmaster and his lady," to
whom Mrs. Granger now introduced
Margaret, were very different from the
Changers. Samuel Baxter was tall,
we'll built and well supplied with mus
Gle. His face rather round and inclin-
ed to the ruddy, bis hair and eyes iron
grey, aud his whole appearance genial
and inviting. He was a man of re-
served strength one who never invest
ed all in business venture; always
had money in bank never was known
to be without dollar in his pocket if
case Of distress encountered him face
to face, and neve: turned corner to
avoid such encounter. He always NOV
ed leisurely, never slowly, but ever
with force not easily resisted. His
wife was fair and fresh, with grey
threads in her brown hair, and a quiet
light in her blue eyes. She was very
like her husband this Mrs. Samuel
Baxter, and if he and she had ever had
a dispute, nobody knew it, not even
themselves :; but then they had only
been married thirty years, and there
vas no knowing wbst would happen
when the honeymoon was oyer. Their
opinions and wishes we're often qcite
diverse, aud these diversiries not un-
frequently took form and expression.
At first they would be distinct and
round as so many grains of shot, and
look as firm, but when broug ght to-
sether for comparison were almost GER
tain to become liquid, break and run
into ID other. So there was no use
throwing them into the tin box of con-
tention to get up rattle. It may
probably have been that universal SOL
vent, Love, which melted these little
globu]es, for the Baxter;s kept a good
dealof itin the house, and found it useful
various ways. For the globules which
did not dissolve, they had box
like jewel case, wadded inside and
lined with silk. They called it For
bearance and into it they put the lit
tie hard substances which Love could
not melt, and generally kept it locked
with key called Silence.
1t was very pretty contrivance,
this box ; and one such would be USE
full in any family provided it we're
used in common. II is essential to its
usefulness, that the various kinds of
hard opinions which are found in a
family should be put into the box tc-
getder, that they may neutralize each
other. Where only one kind is thus
put away, they are almost certain to
foment, effervesce and burst. the box.
By making it strong and banding it
often with new resolutions, one party
may use it for long long years; but
the explosion will only be the more de-
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