Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-02

| and be has no materials for exercising It,.
| His profession Is to construct, and he has
nothing TO construct. imagine beaver
waiting for employment His only clients
are small proprietors who having a crew
| ice TO be filled up, or window to be pierre
ed, or a wall to be proppcd send for an
architect in small way, just as, in cases
practitioner of medicine, with the view Of
| getting advice more cheaply. Such was
the condition of Henry Grandval.
By way of compensating himself for
these wretcbod little jobs, which he call
ed his bread-and-chcese work, lie en-
| ployed his rare talent as a draughts-
man and water colorist 10 drawing
plans of country.seats, in compel.
ing for all great public reconstructions,
and in sending out, in all suitable direc-
tions, his designs for edifices of general
utility. At the same time, as he made
very just pretensions TO being prac tical
no less than an artistic man, he Joined to
his drawings emblematic devices, sec
tions, and models, that reflected the high
est honor on the thoroughness of his
studies, but which had the one grand in
convenience ofcosting him great deal of
money. He had TO pay the geometricians,
to pay the measurers, to pay the veritiers,
so that he expended on these projects for
construction all that the repairs brought
him in. He laid out on poetry what lie
picked up in prose.
His budget was made up, as has been
hinted, from his wife's dewry and his
own, which together brought him in an
income that would have been amply sufl-
cient for citizen of the Odcn time. But
an artistl man who likes everything
Nf,,N =, Ir,, 81 Il 4. l.,
! this love of the beautiful. There is
chance of getting a bit of antique tapes
try; how can one resist the delight of
buying it? One reads the description of
a remarkable monument recently dis
covered; how can one help going to see
it? Artistic pilgrimages are all but an
obligation for artists. But what is most
ruinous for them is the reduced prices.
! Think of immense advertisements pla-
carried upon the-walls, setting forth, in
| huge rcd letters, these cabalistic words:
"a Months Tour in the North of Italy,
| with Stops at the Principal Cities-One
| Hundred and Fifty Francs" Only a
hundred and fifty fraucsl 1t is so cheap!
| Yet there is nothing that does so much mis-
| chief as cheapness. These enormous putfs
are as immoral as the exchange-shops; /;
and you can just SO much the less resist
the temptation as you have the air of be-
ing reasonable in yielding to it. Our
young household, then, gave way pretty
| often and if TO this you add that the hus-
band was very much in love with his
wife, and consequently desired that sh
| should be charming and well got up /;
| bearing in mind, also, that, in three years,
they had INDUCED themselves in the lux
ury Of n little son and little daughter,
| you will easily understand that, during
the latter part of the quarter, they were
very apt to be in ifficultes-difficultie
| that broke the heart of the excellent
Madame Desgranges, and drew upon the
head of NJ. Dcsgranges a deluge of pray.
crs and invectives.
beseech you, my dear, do add some
| thing to their DOVER"
IL shall take good care not to do it,"
was the answer of NJ. Desgranges. "I con-
| gratulatc myself too sincerely on the
conrse | adopted. My system is too good
to be changed"
Is it possible that you have the heart
to see them thus embarrassed, and to leave
them so?"
"Are they embarrassed ?"
"Frighlfully, my dear"
$50 much the better. Ny sor-in-law
will take all the more pains to find EN-.
| ployerS."
"'But they don't come, these en-
ployers."
"All the more cause for working hard
to procure them"
"TLey have additional burdens besides
their own"
additional sources of happiness, you
mean" And, as Madame Desgranges
made gesture of desp air, Come, come,
1 g. Ill Il
calmly. Supposing that three years ago
hau given my daughter hundred thou
sand francs more, as you wished, what
would have happened?"
at would have happened" replied
| Madame Dcsgranges, with mingled in.
dignation and pathos, "that, instead of
| been compelled to live for three years !;
instead of denying themselves every
thing"
stop, stop, my dear, permit me. 1t
seems TO me-
ut seems to you, indeed? Well, then,
would you have me tell your When |
am with them at their home, when see
| their poor little modest table-just a sin
gle dish of meat, just one vegetable, and
no sweets whatcver-and when | come
| home and find you, yes, you, seated there
comfortably with your chin almost upon
| the table-cloth, with your excellent
broiled chickens and your partridges
| larded-for you must needs have them
| larded now"
what would you, my dear? As one
grows old"
"\Yell, well, all this hurts me much. l
reproach myself at every good mouthful
that | eat "
~ don't"
81 find our conduct revolving"
"Be calm, my good wife, and come
back TO the question, from which you
have completely wandered off. Follow
my argument, if you are able. We are,
to-day, at the 10Th of November.
Our daughter, our sOn-in-law, their
| two children, and their two servants,
have been here in our cOuntry.house since
the 18th of August-that is to say, three
months and two days; aud they reckon
on remaining here-they, their children,
and their servants-until the period of
our leaving, which will be on the goth of
| December.
"Well, and would you reproach them
| for staying with us now? Are you going
to complain of what their presence costs
you? Have you any idea of exiling them
from your home, from my home g-Oh,
wait moment, beg"
"Wife, wilcl"
"Depriving me of the sight of my chill
dren-my only consolation in lifel"
"Thank your
"Yes-yes, know you. You are capa
BILE of declaring that the children make
too much noisel Poor pets, whose little
voices are so sweet, and whose little steps
are so full of gracem
"But, who says anything to the contra
ryS" exclaimed NJ. Dcsgranges, impa-
tiently
"Do let me speak, and once more fol-
low up my reasoning. Why have our
daughter and our son-in-law been with us
for three months and two days, and why
will they stay with us until the goth of
December?n
A pretty question because thev love
us because they are happy in being
with us because they know how to make
| their stay pleasant to us because they