The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04


vantage ground for all those temptations
which result from disordered nerves.
i During this month he seems to play with
the human race, as a cat does with a
mouse, boxing them contemptuously
hither and thither, now relaxing the sys-
TEN with soft breezes and balmy gales,
and, in moment, twitching it up with a
tight freeze.
We are familiar with these changes
Such an one now lowered over the chin.
ney pots of Babylon the Great. The SCOT
was falling in little sullen, streaky flashes
through the air, like small installments
from the Internal regions
Now, the chimney in the Doctors
dining room had a mean and treacherous
habit of always smoking just when the
wind was in that particularly chilly
quarter when a fire is most necessary.
| The Doctor on enCering the dining
room was made aware that the enemy
was charging down the chimney upon
him. He seized the water pitcher, and
forthwith discharged its contents into the
CRATE. A fierce Kissing and cloud of
wrathful smoke were the result. The
white ashes now began settling on all
the furniture of the room, and embellish-
ing the Doctors head with thick coat
or powder
"Well, I hope you're satisfied now,"
observed Mrs Doldrums, coming in.
my dear, it had to be DONE" quoth
the Doctor, in a high-pitched controver
sial tome wind is east again, and
this vile chimney is just going to smoke
all day"
Il should think" said Mrs Doldrums,
"that you would get that chimney fixed"
"Get that chimney fxed!" said Dr.
Doldrums in supremely indignant tone
Yes, get it ixed," continued Mrs
Doldrums, with that persistent, didactic
calmness wherewith good wives edify
their husbands when they catch them in
tight place. "You know, my dear,
have been asking you and asking you,
every time you have gone up town for a
month, to attend t.. that chimney"
j "And haven't called, and called, and
called on Elkins, and hasn't he promised,
and promised, and promised to come and
fix it. should like to know?" said DIR.
Doldrums
But I shouldn't let him off so. I
should ses he did come" persisted Mrs.
Doldrums.
"You would, would you? just wish
you would try it. I'd just like to see
| you manage Elkins, now" said Dr. Dol
drums, with an agrieved tone "The fact
is. my dear, you don't know anything
about it, that's what you don't, aud you
women are always expecting things to be
done just as you think they can be, and
they just can't be done your way, that's
ALL"
"Well | know if I were man, /
wouldn't let things go So" said Mrs Dol.
drums, seating herself with provoking
calmness. ugh! what cold, dismal
morning and no fire to eat breakfast by"
she added, looking round with disgust
ed air, on the spectacle, and the drabbed
CRATE, and the chairs and sofa all covered
with ashes.
Now though she did not say SO in SO
many words,yet Mrs. Doldrums tone con.
veyed the idea that DR.. Doldrums was
somewhat to blame for the smoky chin
ney and the bedraggled room, and DIR.
Doldrums so received it, and felt sensibly
aggrieved.
AT any rate he said, pulling out his
watch with nervous jerk, otis time
Bridget brought in breakfast. Halt past
eight, true as | live--it ought to have
been on the table half an hour ago." and
the Doctor gave violent pull at the bell
rope
/" There's no use pulling that way" said
his wife i" Bridget never comes till she
gets ready, and she's but just this minute
! come down the stairs. Bridget never
does get up, and never will, till cook gets
half the breakfast ready, and we always
have to wait for her to set the things on y
And why do you let her lie abed SOP
said Dr. Doldrums. You ought not to
permit it,"
Il should like to know how am to
help it," said Mrs Dodrums. Bridget
takes so many airs on herself that there is
no living, and she won't hear word from
me-"
~ should make her hear word" said
DR.. Doldrums 6" It's your business 10
CONTROL your servants, my dear, and
there's no use in Sinking it." said the
Doctor, rejoicing in having got the staff
into his own hands, and proceeding to
administer reproof on his side "Sor.
wants, my dear, are what the mistress
makes them, he said, growing calm and
didactic in his turn Now. there's Mrs,
Upanddrest always has her girls up and
breakfast on the table by seven o'clock.
She has no difficulty about it. It's just
your habit of lying in bed mornings, my
dear. A house never can be properly
managed where the mistress is not up
early and attending to her household
concerns"
My dear, you don't know anything
about it," flashed Mrs. Doldrums now
thoroughly walked up. "Men are always
talking and debating, but I'd like to see
| them try to manage family"