The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-24
visions ofwifely martyrdom and self. deni,

"Are all right, thank your she inter
posed, merrily. "You poor innocent! I'll
: only that you've eaten cold dinners with
!, out ever knowing it. guess I can plar
: occasionally. Now, Tn not going to see
) you wear that old coat single time more
so take all the things from the pockets
and put them in the new one"
He obeyed in leisurely, careless fash
ion, stopping every minute or two to
talk, suspending operations midway to
try on the new coat once more, and scat
tering articles over chairs and lounges in
the course of transfer; thereby disclosing
the fact that he was carrying three hand :
kerchiefs where he should have had but
one, while he declaaed, in laughing be-
wilderment, that he hadn't the least idea
how he came by so many" .1
The dinner was certainly not cold one
that day-at least, to begin @i.h; but
they fingered over it till the chime o. the
clock suddenly startled the gentleman
into remembrance that he must return
to his Office at once The over.
coat was donnei once more with an air of
great ostentation, and then there was
some whispered nonsen e about somebody
looking $50 handsome" and somebody
else being "such dear little plotter"
"WelI, all mat sort of thing is very
tame and commonplace when it happens
next door. and very nice when it happens
to ones self; so Mrs. Aladdin, after fare
we'll peep through the half-closed shut
tiers, turned away, with shining eyes, and
laughed softly,as she surveyed the apart
ment. H3 r rfnf.
Really, he has contrived to disorder
things considerably for one garment!
suppose a whole new suit would turn the
roc ms upside down, and be equal to a
house cleaning"
She restored chairs to their places,
gathered the surplus of handkerchiefs,
and lifting the old coat from its resting
place on the sofa, hung it away in a closet.
Joe. their wood-sawyer, should have it
now; it would be perfect treasure to
him. Someway that last suggestion car.
ried her thoughts over the street again.
Mrs. Garnet would say there were many
better ways to dispose of such things than
giving them away; "for herself, she could
not afford to-" And Grs Garnet seemed
a very pleasant body, and her house was
certain beautiful. Mrs. Aladdin's mother
had been won't to say that what was
economy in some cases might become rob-
berry in others; and in the deciding of
many matters in her country home,quoted,
quantity: when thou gatherest the
grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
CLEAN it afterward; it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless and for the
widow"
But Mrs Garnet said things were diff
ferent in city; one had need to turn
everything to account. AS for the poor,
it, was hard to lind those who were de-
serving; and it was really duty not to
encourage wickedness 10y trusting people
with anything until they reformed. She
had learned great deal about it, doubt
less, living in town so long; and Mrs.
Aladdin had so great a respect for her
opinion, that it kept her vibrating be-
tween old ways and new. That front
hall across the way was lovely; but then
! it did look hard to see people turned
E away from the back door unfed when
= they were hungry. ub
Mrs. Aladdin's face was growing
e thoughtful, as it often did, over the prob.
lem, when Nancy looked in at the door
q "Man out here with a big basket on bis
l head; wants to know If you done want tc
C buy something Hoo
i ''No; I think not" answered the young
I housekeeper, mindful of her thin port.
monnae.
"Well, he's got all sorts of match-boxea
: injun women an heather images an he's
dreadful anxious ye should see EN-. Says
! he'll take most any old trumpery in pay
that is, fur's can make out, for he DONE
talk English fit for nothln'," pursued
!, Nancy. 4t.
The invitation to look at pretty things
with the added possibility of securing