The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-07-31
WTthOHT .f1ty CONrting

Peter Patterson was Hat least he
thought so-and depressed; he had
headaches, and he hated the dusty
street, in which the summer heat
burnt and the summer sun shone before
the green leaves had draped the trees
and the squares of grass and wisteria
vines and plotted gersniums which
have come to be so blessedly popular
in New York, lent its SUNNI er's freshA
ness.
"What shall I do, doctor ?1 he said
to the white headed old physician.
"You say nothing ails me, but / can
tell what my feelings are better than
you can. I know I shall be down
with something soon. rode in q car
with half a dozen dirty children, the
other day5going to the smallpox
hospital, haven't doubt-very red
and nasty looking, all of 'em; and
while / was buying something in
store the other day, horrid old wo-
man begged of me because her hus-
band was sick with the typhoid fever.
No doubt I've caught both diseases,
and it is the complication that plE-
zles yeu. Couldn't relish my coffee
this morning, and left my milk toast
untouched. Hateful life, that of a
bachelor at q hotel. Oh, dear me ~
why don't you marry, then ?''said
the doctor.
''They need so much courting,"
said Mr.. Patterson. "You spend six
months or 50, at least, dangling at
woman's sptbn strings. You must
go to the theater and opera IL she is
gay, and to church meeting il she is
piOus. At fifty q man likes his slip
pers and dressing gown, and the easy
chair Of an evening. Fit was Just
stepping over to the elergymanis and
getting married, put ring on her fin
ger and saying or nOdding yes two
or three times, why I wouldn't mind
it, you know.n ,.,..
"Ah, well, eourting is the fun of it
all, in my opinion" said the old doc
tor, "but every one to his taste. And
my ADVICE to youis, Is TO go into the
country"
"To another hotel aud more merceS
nary waiters, /" said M. p Pattsrson. Il
"No, ,tsaiG the doctor, 60 to a nice
private home i know oae-a moth
erly widow lady who cooks a dinner
fit for king; river before the house,
woods behind it, orchard, to the left
and Kitchen garden to the right; !; no
fever and ague; no mosquitoes.
Heavenly! am going up there to-
morrow and pll see if she will take
you."
''Very well" said Mr.. Patterson, 'T
think I'd try it."
"And y6u must drink plentifully of
milk, and eat plenty of nice home
made bread" I" said the doctor.
i'Yes, will" said Patterson, over
ljoyed at last at hearing something
that sounded like a prescription.
"And you would advise milk 2"
"Quart of it every day." said the
doctor.
'tpll take a note of it, said Patter-
son. "And if 1 should be very i'll
she'll nurse me ~
"Splendidly," said the doctor, and
went his way.
Mr.. Patterson thought the matter
lover, and thought better of it every
day, and when the little note inform
ing him that the widow would be will
ling to "tske him in and do for him, ("
reached him, he had his trunk and
portmantesu already packed, akd was
all ready to start that afternoon. As
| AOA Vic WA0ON1 l4C IOClOI A46A UICRdl-
ed her for her boarder's peculiarities
thus:
"Nice fellow; solid; plenty of mon
ey; thinks himself i'll, but isn't; ought
to be narried; told him so, but he
hates the IDEA RI cquftingi marry Of
some day, no doubt; <Wili you have
me? 'Yes;;' call in clergyman; over;
very peculiar old bachelor, but then
old bachelors are peculiar general
ly."
The widow was what Yankees call
an amazingly smart woman. She
thad married at sixteen, and had new
er Killed to have washing over when
other people were hanging cut theirs.
Her bread always rose, her cakes were
always good, and her butter was al
ways sweet. AT forty-hve- she had
married of al her daughters, and vas
well.to-do, buxom and happy. . r. e..
Her son and his wife boarded with
her, and she added to her plentiful
savings by taking 3 boarder or two, il
they happened to offer. ~
Fifty and q bachelor" said Mrs.
Muntie, hooking in the glass. Well,
it seems pity; but then, when elder
ly gentlemen marry, it is generally
some hity-Hty girl that leads them q
terrible life, snd likely it's for the
! best.U r, - 3, .---..r---.- .--.5sts II .---i
Then she looked ia the glass agafn,
for the widow was but woman after
all. - @ ~ =
Mr.. Patterson cametO thewidowis
and obeyed the doctors prescription
carefully, He ate bread and drank
milk, and robbed the orchard like a
soflol-boy, and declaimed over the
strawberry short cake after fashion
that would have made his reputation
at the bar. Then, too, Mrs. Muntle
did not smile at his aches and pains,
and insist that he must be perpetual
ly well because he had q fresh eoHa.
plexfon and dimples IN his cheeks.
She had saVOry herb teas and pOtiOns,
which she produced when he com
planned of feeling miserable, and she
had that blessing toby pochond ndriacs, a
homeopathic box and hook in tbs
house. ;i1l 1f-i lGg .Z1iFt9YirJ j lals-s {
There were remedies in that box, for
everything; aud isI was pleasant. 70
find that when there was 4 Crawling
sensation in your flesh or 3 kind OF
uneasy feeling in your legs, there
were dear little glebules to be- had
Just suited for the symptoms; that 70
find yourself very angry abos1t moth
ing Indicated pulsatfIla, and thai for
unrequited love there was . medi-
clne.s- .atasG ATgf5I-7- 9siG4E Z
For two months and more Mr. Pat