The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-05
4 Domestic Scene-AlI About a PaTasOi
T0Scol
From the Cincinnati Times.

A parasol tassel is o very small thing to
create a difficulty in 4 mans family, yet,
insignificant as it is in itself, it did cause
much domestic trouble out in the West
End last night. The night vas warm, as
many who were tossing about in Intellectual
efforts to sleep may remember.
Taking a stroll on the streets, about
eleven O'Clock, to see what We could see,
we came upon a discordant couple, man
and wife, evidently, who were SO earnestly
engaged in a family dispute between them
selves they didn't observe rs, so VIC stopped
and observed them. They were of unmis-
taxable Teutonie origin.
The husband, stubborn and morose, was
seated on the doorstep of a planning mill
and the wife was standing in front of him
on the sidewalk emptying imaginary walls
of wrath upon his head, varied with female
lamentations and pleadings usual upon
such occasions, all of which he received
with occasional sullen remonstrance.
'sOnly two years married, already" said
the indignant wife, 'tand you running
aroundt nit de girls, pooty quick. You
ought to be ashamed NIT mine self. But
here is the leetle barasol tassle vot I found
in your pocket. Yust SIGH a leetle tassle
vot Catrina Vot Trumps barasol don have
got ALE vile. Vot you got to say 10 dose 2
"Vot Igot to say Z" returned the husband,
in a tone ofinjured innocence. "Vot 1tole
Won already, vot I always tell you, and Vot l
never tell you some what live, and always
will ? 1 toie you I found the leedle barasol
tassel at the pase pail grounds, and that's
more's what's the nader"
The wife would moi accept the explana-
ton, but continued toaceuse him of connu
bal derelictions, although the only evidence
only evidence she seemed TO have on hand
was the parasol tassel At length, another
actor appeared on the scene. He proved
to be aneighbor oftheirs, and although be
he came strolling along. whistling in an
Indifferent manner, as if on no purpose
bent, it was apparent that he had sought
them with the yiewof effectihg q reeonellia
ton and getting them home.
tsHallO, Hans, vas this your" said the
new conner, acting IS though surprised al
finding him there; 'tyou are pooty late out,
amt 1t ? why you no 60 homer"
81 don go home any more, that's why
amt ont pooty quick late" replied Hans.
gloomily.
The neighbor inquired the reason of THEN
difficulty, which Mrs. Hans5yas not slow to
give, exhibiting the suspicious tasseL.
tsWhat, said the neighbor, in astonish.
ment, ga leedle tassel like dose make all
these dificultiesl Wy ] Dicks up heep dose
leedle tasseIs at the pase pail grounds effry
tay vot I don go town there. Got tozzens
thousands of EN- at home, 1 guess not.
Won leedle parasol tassel! Veil, you youst
like TO see my pureau tiawers full of dose
tassels Yot l dells you, unit my frau she
likes unl, unit says its pully. Won leedle
tasseI makes all dis troubles. Veil if
hadn't ouf polieyed it 1 never would hal
seen it.
He continued In this strain, and finally
made out that every married man in the
neishborhood had bushels of decide bara-
sol t~assels," which they picked up at the
base ball grounds, conveying the idea that
the air fairly ra1ned tassels whenever there
was a throng of ladies to witness a base ball
match.
The woman at length became moderately
pacified and consented to go home. orget-
ting and forgiving if bans would, and
Hans, after an amount of grumbling and
hesitation, which his injured feelings SEEM
ed to demand, consented, and they went
home; the well-meaning but somewhat ex-
travagant neighbor still dwelling upon the
heap of parasol tassels he had himself ac-
eumuIafed at fha tfnase nall