The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-12-04
A FUNNY MIXTURE.
What Game Of Putting Mrs." Before
Mans Name.

I have purchased o billiard table.
NV wife says that it is good thing to
have in the house, and prevents our
boys from spending their evenings away
from home, and lounging in saloons or
bar-rooms
The table being new thing, ls I'M
mensely popular in the family, and as
o,r connection is large and friends nu-
merous, it is seldom that get a chance
at the balls. BY the by, | wonder why
everything about balls has such a fasci-
nation for human kind, and why every
body is after them, of some sort or an
ether There are race balls and
inonouration balls, pawnbrokers' balls
and billiard balls, cannon balls ana
nursery bawls, and l once knew widow
Rails who had more offers OF marriage
than any spinster or widow of her age
in the country.
NV brs ther.in-law, who lives over the
wov from our street, frequently comes
over to play game of billiards. ne
raver nlayed before we got our table
md did not care much Tor 1t nj hrsC' pu
,ow since he can rarom on the red an'
white. and make a run of two, he !
ipcessant in his playing, and we nav
hard work TO stop him at bed time. tie
S like all other fancy play ers, Insists upo
knocking the balls right and left for
s hour after the game is finished and u
e lights are ready to be put out. Indeed
r 80 pertinacious is he that we have loc'
b. larly named him Mrs. Gibbs, after u
"a historical lady who owned SOW III
4 required beating to get it TO the troug
'e and beating to get it away.
+. A few evenings since, my family h'
to ing gone to the theatre, and detaln
}; ot home by cold, | sent the 1oiiowi
b rotc bv 4 new servant to my broth'
~ in-law
in "aL, Dear Mrs. Gib6S:--Susan h
al zone to the theatre, the coast Is cie'
&c oonJ we can have q good time. COZ
at oynr at once. Ever yours,
ISL o'o' ~ "M. Y. FULLNAME
H. Instead of delivering my note on
0S oost side of the street, he handed 1T
-, i' the west side, where, as it was a pl
- sheet of paper, not sealed, it was CT
m ,oo fully read and returned to the Dea'
~" Wv ,,ith advice to take it next door, VIII
'"' ", tho same process was gone throu
'l'o ' until it had been perused by every
,n,. m nestle circle in the block,
,oro Finally, neighbor told the ser'
,a that Mrs. Gibbs resided in Blank str
No. 1919, two doors from the corne
another street, which place he
ork. found, and ioyiully presented the
q of 70 Mrs. Gibbs, who was enJoylnga
fine evening with Mr.. Gibbs, surrounde
tba all the little Gibbses, and severa
}: ouiring friends, who wanted TO
s7s fine contents Of the note that Mrs. I
q 5SsS ,5sS was blushing over and telling the
9O,GGss6G she did not understand.
7l,s2G Imagine Mr.. Gibbs surprise "n'
lI,ti9 IL rood IL and the sorrUwful look
y, ,Sss hao re'o ~ ''A' -, .,luo
10 LS'S45 'Gt5 overspread his countepance while
2Olli mo upon the partner of his bosom
.1I1I'iis9 ,ho mother of his eleven children.
~ G'Siis ois Mrs. Gibbs could not explain, an
,35,45 new servant complicated the cas-
I03,i7O saving that the lady he was after
ports oontleman. which determined MIR.
nths, TO mt ON his hat and come over.
1871 Fullname had returned from the u
when he arrived, note in hand, ant
l,,5 is52 s77 social glass all was satisfactory
5'ees n,oiped and settled. But, alas
aSS,'SSs lSS'S numerous curious eyes IN the
'Ss,aS SsS street that had glared upon my
! l9Sse Ss4 next day spread the report tha
,14o,564 Susan Fullname was neglec'eu
4's'&S5 9S3 hnsbond and that poor Mr.. Glib
iis'Ss isSs9 suing for divorce.
$500 Time, that kills all things is
3'IS5'ii 3'IS5iSi ora curing the rumor; but, all
i,sslsiS ST. siS nine days are over, do not dare
,59l, ,O9l " c;hbs mansion or to look q
1886 tne pioo' -, ,,,J
I, 7,365, 500 G;bbs when Mrs. Fullname "h'
o, ,2o8,7li are together in public.
-ormon How TO RETURN TO SILVER
ry pa first attempt made by the trea
widows substitute metal currency ior
lrn his per postal shinplaster was the
in Of the three-cent and then OF
@ quail cent paper ho'eS' "n' '
n ia de. thereof the three-cent and
q from nickel coin we have to day. 80
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