The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-02

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II "My goodness lare We going 10 have
regiment foridinner fisaid she. ~ L9l
! MOL replied, Hthis Ia Tor the weel
One journey Tor fourteen, .;,,i, r,
Bellies eyes, .-sparkled with a ney
thought. Once plant the germ Of fore
thought In a women'se mind, and Il vii
blossom out In aithousand unexpecte,
Ways, p4a Indy LiiT ss5ulirJ g.GElE
|; But there is,one, thing in housekeeping
before which the most New England.lik
faculty must stand abashed, there Is nt
.'lsying that spectre" who Is continually
asking for "clean Dishes 9 '-'' '-'21 !. :
The gods on Olympus, II Is said, tosl
aside their goblets, and take fresh one'
every time, ;butlpoor ,mortalst cannot dc
that, and 80 comes The inevitable soap
and water, But one can be, helped
through the process, and SO one day
walked out TO the shop of a kind Of half
way Hoosier carpenter and gave him df'
rections for making "a dish.drainer-a
thing he had never heard Of. He brought
II TO- us the next day, and we found 1t q
source Of solid comfort; but, alas !! I lost
my standing will, tho Hoosier. .,"'.
/. That evening, when he went home to
"bacon and greens" for the third time that
day, he told his wife, who, with a kind
consideration, managed tosend 10 along to
me, that 1nWl lllEl!yAI. a1lssH .'ns
"Them Yankee girls was powerful cute,
but be didn't think he should want one for
q wiie. He'd ruther have one OF 'ornary'.
kind. For o ,oomd, to be telling q man
how TO make things, somehow seemed 10
him agin nater.p EadE7 cd; gyaGa trE a.
And yet this man had never heard Of
Bushnell's Reform against Nature, and
didn't even know there inas such ques.
tion as Woman's, Rjghts. 80. -.
: One more experime ent, and that is all
The rest were like Unto them. Good cot.
fee lisa drink fit for the gods. believe
II Is the original nectar; but poor coffee,
alas II the deities, In that other place, do
have anything TO- assusge their thirst 1t
must be that. It is such q punishment 70
drink H. -.
"Now, Belle" said I, one morning, "cof.
ree." Belle looked subdued at once, as If
she expected q little more chemistry, but
I spared her. "Give good coffee, pro-
perly roasted and ground, plus boiling wa.
ter, and a subtle something which Sambo
called de know how, and the result must
So this week We will have
coffee for our text" and the result was, as
IL must be, nectar. 30 It went on, and be.
fore the expiration. Of the six months, /
formally abdicaied, and Belle took the
reins again, because she knew Just how 10
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And did things 60 on in, this smooth
way, and bread, and coffee, and all the
necesssries Of. family comfort come with.
out any slips or mishaps?: u b2ss,esjf ol
My,dear friend, u will be confidentiala
There ARE espots' on the sum-" there are;
erratic wanderings among the stars, there
are clouds. as, well as sunshine, and this
little houseold was human. "
There were days when things were
very wrong indeed. When the children
we're cross, and Belle was tired, and L.
well, l had nerves. NJ believe that Is the
nice way of sayingitslv,r nliy..lg 10.
There were days when letters came
rom, my, party Of friends, enjoying the
summer trip, which filled me with hate
'ur discoetent. Hot days, when the spark.
inglswaves Of the 81 Lawrence dashed
before my eyes; when the Thousand Isles
,rose out OF the midst OF my vision. like
he Isles Of the Blest; days when the
velvet lawns, the exquisite flowers, the
'preadlng beach, and the festive ihropg
j Newport, Knocked me in the distance,
md, above all, the sunny submits Of the
White Mountains lifted themselves like o
lazzling mirage.pod y!-auc;' sun. a
But those days were few, There is
lothing like o sense Of duty to curb the
wandering fancy. ~ -, 49,
Belle, like many another troubled young
lousekeeper, needed only q little instrc-
ion, and writes me that she has now o
ordered home. l5y
AS for me, 1t lscertainly very deplore.,
.ble and mourniul thing for q woman to
,e called" cute but then, II one has
managed to help another little by It the
,dium! is more supportable. s.''
! 7 have had my gay summer since, but
his Istill call,-My Wellcspent Summer.
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