Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-16
A DOMESTIC SCENE.
All About a ParasoI TasseI.
From the Cincinnati Times.

From the Cincinnati Times.
A parasol tasse-is q very small
thing to create u difficulty in mans
family, yet, Insignificant as it is in
itself, it did cause much domestic
trouble out in the West End last
night. The night was warm as
many who were tossing about in in
effectual efforts to sleep may remem-
Der.
Taking a stroll on the streets,
about eleven o'clock, to see what we
could SEQ, we came upon q discord-
ant couple, man and wife, evidently,
who wore so earnestly engaged in a
family dispute between themselves
they didn't observe us, so we stop.
ped and observed them. They were
OF unmistakable Teutonic origin.
The husband, stubborn and mo-
rose, was seated on the doorstep of a
planning mill, and the wife was staud-
ing in front of him on the sidewalk
emptying imaginary Walls of wrath
upon his head, varied with female
lamentations and pleadings usual up
on such occasions, all Of which he
received with occasional sullen re-
mo Instances.
"Only two years married, already"
said the indignant wife, "and you
running around nit dc girls, poorly
quick. You ought to be ashamed
NIT mine self. But here is the leetle
barasol tassel vot ] found in your
pocket. Yust SIGH leetle tassel vot
Catrina Won Trumps barasol don't
have got on allie vile. Vot you got
to say to dose ?"
"Vot | got to say ?" returned the
husband, in q tone of injured inno-
cence. "Vot | tolo you already, vot
| always tell you, and vot | never
tell you some what l live, and al
ways will ? tole you | found the
leedle barasol tassel at the pase pail
grounds, aud that's more's what's
the nader"
The wife would not accept tho ex-
PLANTATION, but continued to accuse
him of cOnnubial dereliCtions, al
though the only evidence she seemed
to have on hand was the parasol tas-
sci. At lcngth, another actor APP
peared on the scene. He proved to
be neighbor of theirs, and although
he came strolling along, whistling in
an indifferent manner, as if on no
purpose bent, it was apparent that
be had sought them with a view of
effecting reconciliation and getting
them home.
"HallO, Hans, vas this your" said
the new conner, acting az though sur
prised at finding him there "you
are pooty late out, amt 1t why you
no 90 home ?"
Il don't go homo any more, that =
why | amt out pooty quick late, y
replied Hans, gloomily.
The neighbor inquired the reason
Of their difficulty, which Mrs. Hans
was not slow to give, exhibiting the
suspicious tassel.
"What," said the neighbor in as
constituent, "a leedle tassel like dose
make all these difficulties Wy
bicks up heep dose leedle tasses at
the pase pail grounds effry tay vot |
don't go town there. Got tozzens-
thousands of EN- at home, | guess
not. Won leedlo parasol tassel
Veil, you yOust like to see my pureau
trawers full of dose tassels. vot
dells you, unit my frau she likes UNI,
unit says its pully. Won leedle tas-
sci makes all dis troubles. Veil if |
hadn't ouf pOlieved it | never would
hat seen it,"
lie continued in this strain, and
finally made out that every married
man in the neighborhood had bushels
of decide barasol tassels," which
they picked up at the base ball
grounds, conveying the idea that the
air fairly rained tassels whenever
there was throng Of ladies to wit
ness base ball match.
The woman at length became mod
eratcly paciGed and consented to 90
home, forgetting and forgiving if
Hans would, and Hans, after an
amount of grumbling and hesitation,
which his injlred feelings seemed to
demand, consented, and they went
homo, the well-meaning but some
what eXtravagant neighbor still
dwelling upon the heap of parasol
tassels be had himself accumulated
at the "pase pail grounds"