The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-07-24
MATRIMONIAL sQUABBLEs.

! declare, Susan, we must turn over q
new leaf. This is having breakfast rather
late, "Ifs too bad, certainly, " responded
Susan.
"Past eight O'Clock"
And they both looked up at the old
clock, ticking loudly in the corner, whcrc
it had tvkcd many years, the hands upon
the fucc of which indicated ten minutes
past cight-minutos lost forovor--ond lost
because they bad been thrown away in
useless morning mapping.
1t makes it bard for me, y said Susan
81 End it almost noon when | get my
mornings work done, Let us try, John
to reclaim one of the lost hours tomorrow
"Wo'll do it, answered John, rcsoIuie
g.
So far as The blame was concerned in
this matter Of tardiOess neither could
blame the other, They we're not young
people. They had passed tho SILVER
wedding two years before, and not only
we're their children sitting Mt the table with
Them, but grandchild, bright add prom
ising, shed double radiance upon the
household. John Lamson, 10 his middle
age, was not forced to count bis hours very
carefully for the matter Of subsistence. His
attention had been attracted tothe latcncss
orthe breakfast hour BY ot6oF c6hsiasFh-
tions. In tie first place, it didn't look
well, and then he knew it must be bad for
The women folks.
at must bo bad for you Susa7, I've
thought Of it before And IT'S bad in an
other way, he said With dignity. "lts
physiOlogicaIly bad. Our breakfast emit
be NOR. than baIf digcsted when the din
ner hour comes or, at any rate our stom-
achs can't have had the proper time for
rest It'll be almost nine O'Clock by the
time we get UP from the breakfast table
Only three hours to noon Pbcw?'
Tomorrow morning" said Mrs Lam
son, with a smile, you will get up when |
call you!"
"Yes, always do that, you know But
| ought to get up without being called"
Never mind John. Ifyou start when !
call it will be in ampletme. You weren't
quite up to time this morning
"How so?"
"Wby spoke to you when | left the
chamber, and you didn't get up for long
time afterwards"
l beg your pardon, my dear, | was up
Immediately.
mot for an hour, at least, after I came
down"
"Wbat time did you come dowp?"
1.-THE clock struck seven just after got
into the kitchen"
"Aud it was Just exactly seven when |
got out Of bed, said John, cmphatically
That couldn't have been," asserted
Susan, with equal emphasis. 81 looked
at the clock when entered tue kitchen,
and | heard you when you went into the
bath room"
Up to this point the twain had convcrs'
oA in choerfnl ,oncs md with smiling
faces; but here the voiccs became set and
rigid, and the smiles departed. They had
been married seven and twenty years, and
experienced many, very many just such
passages as this present. Maryland many
time had the sunshine Of their home
been darkenod by just such clouds of folly
as they were now il"iting g."""..%"m
II tell you, said John, with a harsh
sterness," that | looked at our chamber
clock when got up, and it was right up
on the tick Of seven; aud know that the
two clocks ngree,"
81 don't care for that, returned Susan
quickly, "What ] know, | know |
know that the two clocks agree
"And what know, knoHI' exclaimed
John vehemently.
"You think you know" suggested the
wife with spice Of derison in her tone
"Thiuk!' cried John With compressed
lips and darkcniog brow. 81 KNOW"
Aud then, with the dictalion Of a MASTER
he added
Look for yourself, and consider, You
know it takes from ten to fifteen or twen'
ty minutes to wash aud drcsa@ At the very
quickest. This morning, after had
dressed, I went out and bIoke away the
snow from the cellar windows aud beyond
that, waited at least ten minutes, for
tho breakfast bell, aud We we're down at
tho table before eight. Will you hayo