Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-04

From the cincinnati Times. -
A parasol tassle is very small thing
to create difficulty in mans family,
yet, insignificant as it is in itself, it did
cause much domestic trouble out in the
west-end last summer. The night was
warm as many who we're tossing about
in Intellectual efforts TO sleep may re-
member .4ta
Taking a stroll on the streets about
eleven o'clock, to see what we could see
we came upon discordant couple, man
and wife evidently, who were so earnestly
engaged in a family dispute between
themselves that they didn't observe us !
so we stopped and observed them. They
were of unmistakable Teutonic origin.
The husband, stubborn and morose,
was seated on the doorstep of planning
mill, and the wife was standing on the
| sidewalk in front of him, emptying i'm
aginary vials of wrath upon his head,
varied with female lamentations and
pleadings used upon such occasions, all
of which he received with occasional
sullen remonstrances.
"Only two years married already"
said the indignant wife, and you run
ming round NIT de girls, pooty quick.
You ought to be ashamed NIT mineself.
Unit here is de leedle barasol tassel vot !
found in your pocket. Yust sich leedle
tassel vot Catrina Won Trumps barasol
don't have got all de vile. Vot you got
to say to doseY
"Vot | got to say2" returned the hus-
band, in tone Of injured innocence.
"Yot tole you already, vot | always
tole you, and vot never tell you some
what live, and always will / tole you
found the leedle barasol tassel at the
pase pail grounds, and that's more's
what's the matter.
The wife would not accept the expla-
nation but continued to accuse him Of
connubial dcreliction, although the only
evidence she seemed to have on hand
was the parasol tassel. At length an
other actor appeared on the scene. He
proved to be neighbor of theirs; and
although he came strolling along, whis-
tling in an indifferent manner, as if on
no purpose bent, it was apparent that he
had sought them with the view of effect
ing a reconciliation and getting them
home.
HALO, Hans, vas this your" said
the new conner, acting as though much
surprised at finding him there, you are
pooty late out, amt it2 WHY no 60
home?"
~ don't home no more, that's why /
amt out pooty quick late, replied Hans,
gloomily.
The neighbor inquired the reason Of
their difficulty, which Mr.. Hans was not
slow to give, exhibiting the suspicious
tassel
What" said the neighbor, in aston
ishment, "a leedle tassel this does make
all these ditficulties2 Wy, l picks up
heaps dose leedle tassels at the pase
pail grounds effry tay vot | don't 60
down there. Got tozzens-thousands et
EN- at home, / guess not. Won leedle
barasol tassel Vell you youst like to
see my bureau drawers full of dose tas'
sells not tells you, uRt my frau she likes
um, unit says it's bully. Won leedle tas.
sci makes all dis troubles. Veil, if
hadn't ouf believed it | never would
have seen it. W
He continued in this strain, and finally
made out that every married man in the
neighborhood had bushels of leedle
barasol tassels which they picked up at
the base ball grounds, conveying the idea
that the air fairly rained tassels wher-
ever there was throng of ladies to wit
ness base ball match.
The woman, at length, became mode
rately pacifed and consented to go home,
forgetting and forgiving if Hans would,
and Hans, after an amount of grumb-
ling and hesitation, which his injured
feelings seemed to demand, consented,
and they went home; the well-meaning,
but somewhat extravagant neighbor still
dwelling upon the heap of parasol tas-
sells he had himself accumulated at the
"pase pail grounds. Ga "a