Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-04-24
THE RIGHT KIND.,OFA WIFE.

y [sar own"
o saidI: "Cdarity, it's just impossibl
b hain't the means"
t Said size: "1srael, Ne l...4s :.
Q means to gay the rest that "a I.ecr
J, charce, that's quite clcar.@
|, She began washing up fao breakfa
J, things, and off I went to duty.
l In the evening Charity said to m
: as We sat down to supper: "Israel,
f have bought lot"
I sprang up from Ely chair, saying
: "You've bought what ~
5 /" A lot" said she.
"a lot" says I.
"a lot" says she.
} "Well," said I, and 1 sat dow
, again, and she went for tho tea an
biscuit. When l came to I said t
my wife: "Just explain yourself
, Charity.n
, ~ bought lot" said she. "D1
Dodd says the fifty dollars down ar
satisfactory, and the mortgage ma,
run at six per cent. Twenty fee
front, one hundred feet deepy tw,
thousand feet at ten cents . foot, twl
hundred dollars. Fifty paid, and ont
hundred and fifty due"
"But, Charity, dear, how about tn,
new house,"
"An right, Israel; Pve made q con
tract with Chips & Cuttings. House
shed and fence, fifteen hundred and
fifty"
"Charity.n
"Israel, don't talk, please. You
menn-
"Charity, arc your-
Deranged, eh I No, not q bit"
zone hundred dollars cash when
possession is given"-
"But, Charity
"StOp q minute. You know, Israel,
we can never get our large bureau, nOr
our high-pOst bedstead, nor our large
secretary, nor our wardrobe into that
little four-ro0m house. That's clear,
amt it -
"Welli"
"Well, then, we'll sell them all, and
the proceeds will meet these two cash
payments"
ence, may be-"
"DO you sect"
"But how can you do without these
articlesfn
"As easy as yoc will do without
cigars; as easy az you will be your
own barber ai.G boot black; as easy ss
we vii, both take our breakfast with
out hslf-do],ar butter; as easy as I'll
make all my winter clothes carry me
through next winter; as easy as I'll
carry you through nice and gentecl-
looking on the same principle; as easy
asn-
"Charity!"
GAS easy as I'll do without moon
re- and might cap,' md my cigars and
theatre tickets, and7-
EXACTLY, old glow-worm!"
"Well, we'll! Suppose we should do
without these things, and I should be
dead before it is paid; where would
our home-my Charity's home-be
then?n
ooh! you can get your life insured,
and make that all SAFE"
"Darling, here's with you'll"
~ never squared debts off so soon.
Two hundred, and fifteen hundred.
and one hundred and fifty cash off,
paid by proceeds of this surplus furni-
ture, leave fifteen hundred and fifty.
Fifty dollars q month pays that of in-I
40, not in thirty lone months, because
The interest and insurance payments
put it of somewhat, and the taxes and
! couple Of commissions keep it run
hing longer, say for three years, and
hen we have hOmeOf our own, every
oot of it worth fifty cents, making a
lear gain of eight hundred dollars,
md we are p
"Stop, husband; let me tell it. We
ave home-delghtful home-and
have a husband who never knew
hat his soul -debasing indulgences had
'rought him down SO far that none
nut his own wife denied his fallen
tate, or hoped to lift him up again.
We have three children, Of whom we
re proud, andn-
"Charityi"
"What, lovei"
~ have just been thinking that
- II
"Nothing more is needed, Israeli
"Let me say it out, dear. If you t
ere only single how I would like to I
ourt You over again."
Not for long, for I would drop t
lump into your arms at the first timo d
+ asking" And Charity suited tho l
;tion to the word. il
"Its all right, no doubt, for young G
en- to love The girls," said Israel 81 y
but no girl was half 80 lOveable as .
lis young wife, who has given more
AN half the years of her life to make
e happy, and leading me out of the
ay Of folly and sin; and our darling P
Ibies are all like her." n
And Charity broke in with an n
amen" SO emphatic that little Abe q
Outed from his chair +
"This meeting are dismissed" ~
81
For BLEACHING MUSLN.-One "
und of chloride of lime to forty y'ds Il
muslin; soak the muslin in soft ol
lter over night, melt the lime in q ii
t of WATER then put the muslin "
fnr half an hfO1r. then rinse fhroA ~