The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-23
RIfs In The Cloud.
h STORY FoR MARRIED FoLKs

Is wife. who was also tired and out
* smiling wife and a cheerful
ome-a paradise it would bel" said
drew to himself, as he turned his
from the cleuded face of Mrs.
&C. and sat down with knitted broWs
I'd moody aspect.
Not q word was spoken by either.
Lee was getting supper, and she
owed about with q weary step.
Come she said at last, with a side
snce at her husband.
Aadrew o and went to the table.
G was tempted to speak an angry
ord, but he controlled himself and
ept silent, He could find no u
it'll the chop nor the homemade
cad, nor the fragrant tea. Ihey
ould have cheered his inward man,
there had been a CLEAN OK sunshine
j the face Of his wife. He noticed
did not eat.
Are Won not we'll Mary?" The
3rds we're on his lips, but he did not
Ter them. for the face Of his wife
soked SO repsllant that he feared an
sating reply.
md SO 10 moody silence the twain
together until Andrew had flushed
supper.
AS he pushed his chair back, his
fe arose and clearing off
3 table.
This is purgatoryF' said Lee to
uself, as he commenced walking the
lor of their little breakfast room,
ID his hands thrust desperately away
vi into his troWsers pockets, and
IS chin almost touching his breast.
After removing ali the dishes and
ing them into the kitchen, Mrs.
"a spread Q green covor on the table,
I'D placing a fresh trimmed lamp
ereon wers out and shut the door
ser her, leaving her husband alone
th his unpleasant feelings. de
ok a long deep breath as she did SO,
used in his walk, stood still forisome
9ments, aud then drawing q paIar
70 his pocket, sat down by the table,
med the sheet, and commenced
ding. Singularly enough, the
lrds upon which his eyes rested were
laise your wife" They rather
ldsd to increase the disturbance of
La from which he was suffering.
III should like to find some occasion
Z praising NINE" How quickly his
t1oughts expressed that ill-natured
ezutiment. But his eyes were on the
Be before him, and he read on.
7praise your wife, maD; for PHYS
ke give her a little encouragement.
1t WON'T hurt her."
Andrew Lee raised his eyes from
s1e peper and muttered, "Oh, yes
ats all very we'll. Praise is cheap
rough, But praise her for what?
II being s%ullen, and making her
me the most disaereeable place In
: world?" His eyes fell again to
paper.
Size has made your home comfort
s vuur hearth bright and shining,
HI food agreeable; for PHYS sake
her YOU thank her, If nothing
lie. She don't expect it, it will
u ke her eyes open wider than they
10 for ten years; but it will do her
HI for all that, and you too.
10 seemed to Andrew as ii this sen.
&c was written just for him, anC
the occasion. 1t was q complete
swer to his question, Praise hel
wbat?" and he felti also arebuke
read no further, for thought camr
busy and in a new direction. Mem
was eonvicting him of injustice tC
wife. She had always made hi
me as comfortable fer him as her
1ds could make it, and had he of
M her the light return Of praise OF
mmendation2 Had he ever told he
tbo satisfaction he had known, o
comfort he had experienced? II
Is not able to recall the time or oc
ion. As he thought thus, Mrs
j came in from the kitchen, AM
ling her work-basket from thu
,lsef. placed it on the table, and sit
ting down without speaking, began t
W. Mr.. Lee glanced almost stealth
at the work in her hands, and say
AZ II was the bosom of a shirt, whic'
was stitching neatly. He knew
at il was for him that she was o
Praise our wife," The word
7are before the eyes of his mind, an
M could not look away from then
ut he was not ready for this yet. II
.iU felt moody and un%forgiving. III
preston of his Wife's face he int,
sted to mean Miniature, for which /
sd no patience. His eyes fell upo
o newspaper that lay spread out b.
re him, and he read the sentence:
"a kind. cheerful word spoken
gloomy house, is the little rift In tt
9ud that let's the sunshine through,
Lee struggled with himself a viii
nrer. His own Immature had to b
,n1uered first; his moody accusiI
Yirit had to be subdued. He though
ef many things to say, get he feare
- loak HE vuffo chou11 mo
lis address with n cold rebuff. I
.ast, leaning toward her, and takiI
Hold cf the shirt bosom upon Whi'
he was at work, he said IN a vol
-arsfully modulated with kindness A.;
You are doing the work beautiful
any,"
Mrs. Lee made no reply. But h
asband did not fail to notice that S
st, almost instantly, that rigid cree
Hsss with which she had been sittiT
DC that the motion of her needle b
NY shirts are better made, a
hitter than those Of any other man
re shop" said Lee, encouraged to
Are they?" Mrs. Lees voice W
v and had In it a slight huskine
he did turn her face, but her hl
nd saw that she leaned o lit
-2rds him. He had broken the
reserve, and all was easy now.
I'D was among the clouds and
ellie ray was already struggle
-ough the rift it had made.
Yes. Mary" he answered soft
and I've heard it more than on
hat a good wife Andrew Lee NJ.
ave-" Mrs. Lee turned her f
wards her husband. There '
rht in 1t, and light in her y e |
3 was something in the express.
the countenance that a little p