Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-05-20

have been thinking Of getting another
Wife
What 2 cired Mrs. Peters.
Another wife, nv love. The house must
be kept in order, and the boys cared for
The grief was gone from Marla's face
but her teeth were set with look OF herce
wrath. :. ;,
Another wife, Joseph! Another wife J
Yes. think | have selected good sue
cessor. | have deliberated long time,
when | was bachelor, between her and
yourself. You will like her; she is your
bosom friend!
What Sarah Ingraham ?
Yes, my dear | think that on the DAY
you ascend. l will marry Sarah lngraham 7
What, that good nothing, silly,
emptyheaded old maid, the mother Of my
children What p
swell, my dear, it seems to be the best |
can do. I don't want to leave my business
and 60 a counting, and she will have me, [
know
NO doubt Oh, you great brutal, hate
full,
Stop, my dear, don't fly into fury !
We will try to spend our last week in hap
piness. Oh, by the way, I have PROPOSE
ton to make
go on, sir Do not spare me J
'Ah, yes, that is the very thing wish to
do know your mind is entirely engrossed
with your ascension, and I wish to spare
you the care of the house. Suppose 5ou in
vite Sarah here tomorrow, 20 stop week !
What =
Then | can arrange our matrimonial
preparations in the evening, while you are
at the lecture
What =
And you can leave the house in her
charge all day. That will give you plenty
Of time to go out, and she can learn the
ways Of the house.
'Whatp
And, my dear, one little favor. 1t may
be the last | shall ever ask Of you. Stay at
home one Or two days, and show her around,
where you keep things, and SO on, so that
she won't have any trouble in keeping Or
der after youg You will do this to oblige
me, won't you?
Mrs. Peters, for an answer, rolled up the
ascension robe into = ball and fired it at joe
The cotton, scis~ !, work basket and table
cloth followed .lother in rapid succession,
and he was ,.ble to fly. Then Maria's
rage found vent in words.
$50! you are going to marry Sarah !
That's the reason you whstled so nice when
you came in ! But you shan't marry her,
sir 4! You shan't have that qualification ! I
will stay, if it is only to spite you won't
COL tell you, Mr. Peters, that I won't
gop
But, my dear, you must go, if you are
come for
I won't go!'
But consider, my dear
I won't go!'
But what will Saral, Ingraham think of
it?'
Sarah ! Don't dare to mention Sarah to
me again I-I-I-oh II am fairly
choking y and the little woman threw her.
self into chair, in fit of Mysteries.
Next morning Mr.. Peters met Fred in
the street.
We'll, old boy, how goes it?'
Fred, was the reply, I am the happiest
man in the world ! have regained my
wife, and domestic peace, and got rid Of
busy, tattling old maid, who, under pretence
of loving my wife, was everlastingly inter-
fering in all our household arrangements
Then Mrs Peters will not ascend, will
she =
If Sarah is to be my second wife and
stepmother to my chileren, Mrs Peters has
concluded that on the whole, she won't 90 ?
TRUE HOSPITALITY That eccentric, but
brilliant, writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
makes the following admirable remarks on
this topic Il pray you, oh excellent wife,
cumber not yourself and me to get curl
ously rich dinner for this man and woman
who have alighted at Cur gate nor a bed
chamber made ready at too great a cost .
these things, if they are curious in them,
they can get for few shillings in any will
age; but rather let this stranger see, if he
will, in your looks, accents, and behavior,
your heart and earnestness, your thought
and will, which he can not buy in any city,
which he may we'll travel miles, and dine
sparsely and sleep hardly, to behold. Let
not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed
and board but let truth, and love, and
honor, and courtesy, flow in all thy deeds. :"