The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-14

vagaries himself, and it is not apt to
suspect them in others. Therefore, on
the sixth anniversary of their wedding
day, John met it with huge basket of
flowers, pair Of solitaire earrings, and
a kiss of extra heart1ness for Mrs. Jes-
sic, and then, dinner being over, straight
way launched the discourse on geology.
Great rivers have to thank little drops
of water. The Rothschilds owe their
first million to the fact that Meyer
Rothschild happened in on royal
game of chess. No doubt we, the com
mon people, should all use steel forks
to-day at dinner, if Galvani on a GER
| tain day had turned his back instead of
his face. So, to Johns choice of sub
ject was due that great event, the first
quarrel
What was there offensive in geology?
Nothing. On the contrary it implied
a compliment. When man brings on
his bobby for a gentle prance, it is as
a symptom of content with his com
pany, as Towers luxurious abandon
of stretching on the hearth rug. John
innocently thought he had done his
duty by the day. He was thoroughly
content. A man with so sweet a wife,
with that little girl on his knee, in that
coy drawing room, everything from
out side wcrld shut out, except the
comfortable sense that all went well
there, with Bobbin, Medlark 81 Co.,
basking luxuriously in that bright Sc
clusion-he considered himself very
happy fellow.
But oh !! the difference between a
straightforward John bent on large
arms, and self tormenting Jessie, who
had not yet learned to look outside of
herself The flowers we're sweet-the
solltaIres had been the wish of her
heart. Some wives might have thought
the kiss better than all But it was al
ways the same story. Kisses and gifts
are for the children. John behaved to
her very much as he might toward
Maud on Christmas day, and that done,
FASTENED back to the subject that
Greatly interested him ! She would
be resigned" etc; but there is great
deal of resignation extant in families
about which [ have my doubts for
example, the sort that goes about put
ting in corks on bottled.up tempers :;
seldom do those things long resist the
ebulition within. In Jessie's case, at
Johns first jest about her dull looks,
pop! the cork was out and her temper
OVERLOOKING.
q am as animated as your listener
can hope to be-" she retorted, sharply,
and then John knew that he had done
something wrong again. "Things to
be worth hearing, you know, should be
either true or interesting, and, as what
you are saying is neither, I-endure
it
"Not true! Come now, Jessie, that
is little too -"
Jessie put up both hands, with a lit
tie gesture of warding him off.
John please! II you can believe
that an oyster bed at the bottem of the
sea pokes itself up into high hill, very
good. | prefer Mark Twain's explana-
! ton of a similar case-that the oysters
walked up there to enjoy the view.
don't believe it."
"Similar things have occurred
81 don't believe it."
Heaven help us cried John, eve.
ing her in comical perplexi5y; edo voa
believe that things are equal to each
other2"
"No, l do not-not if you said it and
proved it ten times over there +"
Nothing was wanting now but that
John should make that unlucky speech
(what tire-brand it has been y about
the deficiency of women in logic, and
he made it.
Logic +! F." ehoed Jessie. scornfullv.
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women are interior animals, just fitted
TO comprehend the coarser wants of
man, but incapable of the higher eff
forts OF reason. Certainly any other
theory would be inconvenient. What
a pity that there could not be improve
ments IN feminine nature, just as there
are IN steam engines Say l were a
walking automaton, with the proper
knobs and springs to keep me running
about my household duties, with a
pretty wax head that would bob at you
yes or no, just as you wish-how exact
~ that would hit your ideal Come,
Maudle, kiss papa good night, and ask
HIM to pray to heaven to save you from
the thing man calls his love-
Then Mrs. Jessie arose, with scarlet
cheeks, and flashing eyes; and John.
whose emotions were deep but silent,
let the two go without word, and sat
quietly looking into the fire. But
things had come to this pass. While
he thought over her ridiculous inius-
tlce, the bitter speeches, the frivolous
mlsapprehensions, the subtle Earrings
that had long teased him with a vague
sense of discomfort, took shape and
ranged themselves before him And
saying, Gas it has been, so it will be, -
he seriously asked him if he had done
we'll when he made Jessie Dunbar his
wife.
As was to be expected, Jessie mean
while, grew remorseful over Maud s
CRIB, and coming down stairs, re-
Cancellation followed. John was still.too
fond of his wife to resist the pleading
look and the little hand laid timidly
on his arm. And then, was everything
as 1t was before? mol Johns faith
In his wife was staggered. She had set
hlm the following problem
Jessie Dunbar-Good, pretty. loving,
sensible, generous--nly ideal woman
Subtract-Jessio Medlark, good, pref
ty, loving, exacting, capricious, unrea-
sonable, unlust-my wife.
Result-An agreeable, grown-up
child.
COMMUNICATIONS luck Could
he help it2
On Jessie's side remained a singing
sense of humiliation and defeat. She
had behaved like child, been pardon
ed like child, and was further from
the recognition of her loftier qualities
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