Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-05

him something to drink for his breakfast.
Now, I had no wish that my husband
should drink bad coffee Just because Provi-
dence had seen fit to remove his mother
from this sublunary sphere: l merely
wanted to cure him of telling me how
mother did it, so as soon as he thus tacitly
acknowledged that his suggestion hal not
been a success, took matters into my own
hands, and p -oved to him that coffee could
be made as well by young wives as by old
mothers.
In the due revolution of the seasons
King Cotton donned his royal robes of
cotton once more, and sacks again became
the one thing needful. 1t was the very
rainiest, wettest, muddiest picking season
that had ever been seen. In pursuance of
my plan, had seven or eight women
down from the quarters, and spinning
wheel also, which was set to hummlng
right under our bed room window.
The rainy weather had kept Charlie
in the house, and he was lounging on
couch in my room, enjoying a pleas
ant semi-dose, when the monotonous
whirr-r-r of the spinning-wheel first at
tracted his attention. "Lulie," he asked,
rising into a sitting posture, what is that
Internal noise in the back gallery?"
"The spinning wheel, Charley. They
are spinning IHiSau W AnaAo INC saChs
with" 1 answered, without looking up
from my work.
"Ohl' and Charlie subsided for while
"Aheml Lulie, my dear, how long is that
devi,ish spinning to be kept up?"
"Devilishl Why, Charlie, that's the
way mother did it"
"Well," said Charlie, scratching his
head and looking foolish, al know she did
Lulie, but I'll be confounded if can
stand it much longer"
"Why, Charlie, you used to stand i
when mother did it." answered mali
ciously.
al was hardly ever about the house il
those days, Lulie; l suppose that was why
l didn't mind it"
"Why weren't you about the house
much in those days, Charlie?"
because you weren't in it, you witch
I suppose"
This was such a decided triumph ovel
the old lady of the portrait that could af
ford to be amiable; so, giving him q spas
motto little hug and an energetic littl:
kiss, went cut and stopped the spinning
nuisance Immediately.
| After that the hobby went slower an(
slower, and feebler and feebler. One mort
energetic display of my bogus spirit anC
"the enemy was mine"
| Winter came on in its duly-appointeC
time, bring ing with it the usual quantit,
| of wild ducks and more than the usual de
gree of severe cold. Charlie was an in
veterate duck shooter, ard with the return
of the season came the return of mud ant
dirt in my bowls.
| 1 determined to do as mother did. A til
basin made its appearance on the bacl
gallery, four yards of crash sewed togethe
at the end were to resolve over the roller
and by way of forcing the experiment to
successful issue, orders were given that my
own pitchers should be filled only afte
nightfall.
1 was sitting in my bedroom sewing
away, in placid Inconsistencies of outside
cold and discomfort, when Charlie go
home from his first hunt Of the season.
"No water, Lulie?' and the monste
took hold of my nice pitcher with pal
OF muddy half-frvnon hands
"On the gallery, dear, just where mothe
used to keep it !" and l smiled up at hin
angelically.
With muttered something or othel
poor Charlie bounded out to the back gal
lery. He came back in a minute, hi
hands as muddy aud cold as ever.
Look here, Luiie; the waters a
frozen in that confounded tin basin ou
there"
"TTl have it thawed out for you," 1 sal
sweetly, rising as spoke.
al say, wifey"-and the great handsom
fellow came close up to me with his mu
and his burs-" do you think it's exactl
fair, when fellows been out all tn
morning shooting ducks for your Dime,
to make him stand out on the gallery sue
a day as this and scrub the mud off hi
frozen hands ~
That's the way mother did," was a
my answer.
"Look here, Lulie, cry quits. If YOU
only let body off this once, you ma
ep house on your own plan, little lad.
and I'll never tell you how mother did
so long as live"
"Well, then, don't, that's DEAR" / II
piled, "for you'll only make me disik
her memory, without doing any gooC
Just be patient with me, Charlie, an
maybe alter awhile I'll be as good hous
keeper as your mother was before m
The mistake you and all other men meE
, is, in comparing your wives at the end (
their first year of housekeeping with yoJ
m mothers, whose housekeeping you kne
, nothing about until it was of ever so man
years duration. I'm young yet, but Il
improving in that matter every da
. Charlie"
. With which little moral lecture I gay
/ Charlie a kiss, and some water to was
; the mud from his poor red hands.
; MaraL-My dear girls, don't you ev
marry man that cannot take his afiday
: he never had a mother, unless it is e
pressly stipulated in the marriage contra'
that he is never to tell you how his moi h
) did it.-Lippincotrs Magazine.