The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-12-29


gal throat, aud it striped dreadfully
/ still he lIad got Il cpnc To il, OF hurt
NaTy's feelings, a thing he couldn't
t1ink Of, for she WAS one of the best
and dearest wives that ever lived, anC
ne knew 10.
The thing was seen about and final
iy done. \ house was decided t. Mrs
Prescott, and ten thousand dollars set
led upon her. After this her intere>t
IN business matters subsided. Sine LEI
/ heT spouse have all the care of hel
property, and pay all the insuranc,
. md taxes. That was convenient {,
her, YOU know: but then she nevei
lsked for rents, so that Prescott los
nothing in the emo. The 'crisis'
iidn't come, ami in n year or two
Prescott began to wish to use hi,
wife's property, with which to extenC
I his businee operations. This she res
/ 1lutely opposed. He talked, and rea
s0ned, and cOaXed, and finally got al
! most provoked. But she was not tC
he moved peg. Just let n senSibl,
woman who isn't the wife OF 4 bully
whom she fears get her hand upon
the deed of home, and see wher
You'll get it away from her. No dos
ever hung to a bone-nO pet fox evel
hung to a ball Of yarn, as such a wo,
man will cling to that which is SURF
| .helter for herself and children. And
PrescOtt's logic, his elOQuence, and
I even his veXatiOn were i'm vain.
"Stiek To il that's you, true blue p
/ laughed Edwin, meFrily, one morn
ing after a discussion of the subject
! his good nature all restored.
Would his heart have been so light
/ had he known what n month would
4 bring forth? Before three weeks had
PASSED, bank had exploded; then
hanks in other Stitas; then down
came mercantile houses, built too fast
md too high. All men began T.
| 1uake-the panic spread crash after
rash was heard, till the whole air
| seemed filed with down-t1ppling for
runes. No man dared trust his fellow
nan. Edwin Prescott had stood
bravely past the worst of the panic
hut at last he fell-alI that he had
went by the board. His ruin was
I complete. Poor fellow he went with
/ pale face and hollow eyes home tn hi,
I wife. Bursting into the room whert
I ,he sat sewing, he threw himself on
the floor, and laid his head in her lap
ooh! how it aches" he said, hardly
| tble to raise his eyelids. "MaTy, Dc
press your hands upon my head"
"Yuu will feel better, now that the
worst is over, dear" said the wifi,
suOthingly. 'OnIy think how thank
ful we should be tlIat we are all aliv,
and well. And besides-DUt never
mind rat now"
She refrained from speaking of hel
property, as she had done all through
Ier husbands troubles, fearing to ap-
pear tiumphing over him.
''But, my love, the house and al.
this splendid furniture must be given
up. I'm not going to continue t. III
,iab.t palace when I've had 10 turn
IF all my clerks to the chance of star
vation. Many who cannot pay fifty
cents on the dollar are doing so;
can't even for your sake"
Poor Edwin groahed. He was very
proud, and the idea OF going down in
The social scale was torture to him
more for his wife's sake than his own,
however. Mary thought it time L,
speak out now.
"Why, my dear Edwin, I'm not al
all distressed for my sake. Remem-
iIer, if you please, that Pm Tich-fOr Il
wOman-able, beloved, To support you
and your family, very comfortably in
Iced. In fact, quite well enough fOl
| your good; for you are geltn ny tDu
high notions altogether. Pve never
said so before, for | knew it would
l. 4
think we have not been One-half ST.
good, nor One-half so happy, since we
got To be rich aud fashionable, a.
when we never went to dancing par
ties, [. .eatres and operas, and when
we never spent so much time in dress
ing. calling. and the other forms Oi
| devotion To the first society. 1t has
always seemed wrong t. ME to spenh
80 much money in dressing our per-
ishing budies, and SO much time IN
triiling forms, when SO little was iefi
TO US for real social enjoyment, nuI
for attePtiOn t. our inner life. | hope
now that we may go quietly t. NY
own pretty and convenient house, and
live as happilyaS Ie day is long. I'm
sure think / shall, and l want you
to think so too. Can't you E Twin? p
All the time that she had been talk
ing to him in tones low, smooth, af-
fectiOHate, she had been passing her
cool fingers through his brown eurls
aud over his pale brow. Her touch
was magnetic, and the throbbing pain
and the excited nerves were quietPd
by it. Calmness and peace were set
ting over what had been wild cOnfu-
sion in PrescOtt's mind, and somehow
It really did look TO his Imagination n
pleasant thing to live in his wife's
house, and rest awhile from his labor
and cares.
He lifted up his eyes, Frightening
again, TO Mary's face.
"Yes, Mary, / am; and God bless
you, dear wife, for having, in the day
of our prosperity, induced me t. pre-
pare fora time ike this. What would
have becom Of us all now, but for your
forethought and perseverance, God
only knows. But now We have both
home and means of support, and ]
should be a child indeed were 1 to de-
spaiF."
The end of our story hath not yet
been fully wrought out. Edwin and
Mary, with their five children, art
happily settled in Mary's house and
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