Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-07
TO MARRY AGAIN, OR NOT.

No man ever had a fonder or bet
ter wife. / say so now with as full
conviction as I said it when / look
cd my last in her dear dead face,
and kissed it, and the fingers that
had wrought SO deity and untiring-
Iy for the poor, for our children, and
for me. am a hale, active man Of
20, and, through Gods mercy, ca
pable of much enjoyment; but a day
and night pass not without thoughts
of how well she suited me, how
simply she admired me, how ten
DERBY she loved me, what a happy
old couple we should have been.
~ wonder you
NEVER MARRIED AGAIN,
Morton" said my early friend Jack
Hathaway at once. you must
have wanted a wife in the parish as
we'll as at home, and you must feel
very lonely in the long winter eve
nings."
Then 1 knew he was thinking
lovingly of his fat little wife and
commonplace children at home,
and 1 was glad oft, for he is a good
creature, and though We are intel
lectually antagonistic, and he some
times offends my taste, / like him
because we we're lads together. /
felt that / must say something, and
/ felt that I astonished myself more
than I astonished him when / said:
''To tell you the truth, Jack, 1 did
think of it once"
I was 80 taken aback by the hav-
ing made such a confidence
never breathed the fact-had inten-
ded never to breathe it-that l felt
as I think / should feel if one Of my
good sound front teeth fell out, and
1 had to attack a pile Of coal.
"Then what hindered you?"
"Well, to be candid
POSTAGE STAMPS"
"Postage-stamps?" he queried
loudly.
at il a curious story" I answer
ed. ~ will tell you all about 1t il
you really feel interested, but I
would rather not have 1t re-
peated."
~ am as deep as a well, and Of
course Pm Interested"
With that he crossed his legs,
leaned back in his chair, and looked
expectant.
/ began: "You know that I was
left q widower with two children, q
boy and q girl. They were old
enough. About sending a boy,
there a be, in my opinion, no
doubt, and 1 do not believe that q
solitary girl a be educated, with
advantage to herself, at home. She
requires companionship, wishes for
1t, and ought to have it. / even
took care to provide ii for mine in
her holidays. My wife had always
taken great interest in the Daltons.
Dalton was the perpetual curate Of
Burzeham, about four miles of, and
he had married q favOrite school,
fellow of hers. 1t was an impru-
dent match; neither of them had
any money; of course they had q
large family, and Furzenham was
worth Gl20 per annum. Mary
helped them a great deal, and,
"YOu'n be kind to the poor Daltons
won't you?" was among her latest
expressions. Their oldest daughter
was two years older than ours, and
ten years wiser. Education as it is
usually understood, she had none:
it was simplyimpossible: first, there
was no money for it; next, her
mother wanted no money for it;
next, her mother wanted her to
help i'm nursing, sewing, cooking.
homework. I must say the child
was a strong cas-
In FAVOR OF NO EDUCATION.
She had abundance Of talent; and
and her father being a gentleman,
her mother a gentlewOman, she
acquired easy, self-unconscious
manners, talked with tact, read
aloud charmingly, wrote q capital
letter-she even danced and sang
when she had an opportunity. Now
partly for her sake, to give her the
recreation she deserved, and q
glimpse Of better social things than
existed at home, but much more for
my own girls sake, | always had
Dorothy Daltsn to spend her vaca-
ton with her, and / treated her in
every respect as another daughter,
even to kissing her and blessing hsF
night and morning. 1t went on
thus six or seven years, till Anna
married, which she did at eighteen.
Dorothy had been invaluable during
the troublesome period Of prepara-
ton for the wedding; and when 1t
was over / asked her mother to
leave her with me for . time, not
only to set new arrangements going,
but to talk to me; for Charles who
was with me for the long vacation,
was very dull, q mere book-worm.
Mrs. Dalton agreed; and for several
weeks all went on delightfully."-,
Dorothy had an exquisite gift Of
companionship-could set converse
ton going when it was wanted, and
her silence was never glum or Cd.
pressive. AS far as / am concerned,
this state Of things might have
lasted to the present day. should
never have dreamed Of putting an
end to it-but one morning ] was
alarmed by
VISIT FROM MRS. DAhToN,-
I say alarmed, not only because
her countenance betokened trouble,
but because L knew that it was bare
ly possible for her to leave her fam
lily. My first thought was Of some