The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-14

receive Kitty into the family OF Junkett.
Its condecensiop, doubtless, and We
know Max might have looked higher
Ny maternal grandmother thu spoke.
And my mother: | hope katherine
Pcll will appreciate what prize she has
drawn in the conjugal lottery.
1t wasn't, but never mind.
We began housekeeping 10 y street.
There was luminous door.plate engraved
'Junkett," There were two door bells,
and plate under the second proclaimed
that Max Junkett, NJ. D., kept certain
office hours. For year we lived like
people who meant to have good time
The blue rings about Kittys eyes grew
red, and slid down into the littlo notifies
on her checks. BY and by something
happened at our house. Eleven women
aew up and down aud all about, like
eleven cats in eleven fits, and my wife
well, she lay still, and looked amazingly
set.up. 1t was about that time that we
waxed ambitious and bought u carriage.
The locomotive power was the purse.
1t was that year at Christmas, that
Kit delighted her blessed little heart by
giving me a gorgeous wrapper wadded,
and quilted, and corded, and froggcd and
tasseled to kill.
Il thought Of it at first, Max that night
when Mrs. Days twins had their seizure,
and the house was so cold when you got
up. Isn't it nice 2
% magnificent The grand mogul
couldn't desire a smarter | should have
been worse than the Arabs not to gusb
a little. But the money, dear 2 1t must
have cost fortune
20, that's my secret, Max and my
, wife look edas treacherous as her name.
sake of Medici bersclf wild horses
8 shall not draw it from me-.
And so two minutes after she told me
. tho whole. OF course she was dying to
do it all the time, and | saw she was. She
y had painted a picture. Oils had been
tabooed when we we're married Kitty
-, had come too near killing herself with
: 'em.
But it didn't hurt me at all, Max
- gained flesh all the while was painting
, Don't you see?'
y. She put back her hair to show her ia,
! checks, and stretched the round arms Out
of her loose sleeves, and came up and
. made me feel how hard her shoulder was
4 and put me through until | owned she
,. was in good condition, and then she told
20 me
$ 'Blarney X Go. want me to paint othol
', pictures for them. Max
So we had housekeepcr and seam
= stress Kitty hated sweeping and sewing
n and my wife gave her leisure to hel
painting. So far, we went smoothly en-.
ough. We had our home to ourselves
4 had my wife. we both had the baoy, anc
:, We envied nobody. Then came the as.
=, sassiuation The funeral cortcge had no
~ reached Springfield when the senior Blod
:, gctt came putting in, one ady, covered
with enthusiasm and Precipitation.
"A picture 1t must be painted direct
. ly. Mrs. Junkett, directly. We must &c
- the inside track. Sawder n Blatheruu
u, would get ahead Of us, else. | woulc
4 not nave that irm get the inside track fol
r fortune. Moneys no object, ma am.
a Perhaps this doscn't sound artistic
. Alas, that the loiticst fight must stoor
for bread and butter
:, The tenth Of May, Ammo Domini, cigh
. teen hundred and sixty.fye.
. This was the morning when Kitty
:. woke and found herself famous wok,
n too. ! wish | hadn't,
- That picture 1t would be little to tn
n purpose here for me to tell how it wa
| engraved and photographed and ever,
10 other 'graphed : how it was nhromoed o
canvas and chromoed on paper how
% figured in stereoscopc and steropticon
: how it stared from every shop windo'
,e from Alaska to Cape Horn, and from tn
ar Golden Gate TO the cod.b banks Of New
h touudlaud how it was copied for railroa
,r cars, for the talboard OF au express wa
, gon, and the splashboard OF an omnibus
how, in short it was reproduced in u
.. many styles as Victoria medal, or tn
~ spic and span crest OF parvenu. 1t nal
= rowly escaped being engraved Gu ban
of bill, as it was on a series of red a7d whit
mr. cotton handkerchiels aud had Dolly Val
/, den been heard Of in those days, max
no doubt the lneaments Of our bes, bee
stead would have adorned tho back an
g, front OF beauty ON high days and hol
or days to the end Of the chapter Wit
II such violence did fame swoop down upo
g us-upon my wife, mean.
ir The first glimpse vouchsafed to me
ch "of the burden of an honor
IN Unto which | was not"
a married, was the 10Th day of May Of ii
to year Of grace aforesaid Coming hon
to dinner, tired and hungry as bear, Il
ur a line Of carriages up and down the stree
to | thought at first I'd make mistake an
on come to my own funeral Looking bac
nd at it now, think l wasn't so far cut
We the way. Dix is having an auction
furniture was my second conjectur
ut But | glanced up at Dix's windows. A
I'D was quiet, as for two or three years bat
nd the public had been given to understar
ie' that it was along the Potomac. Just the
'as | met footman Of wonderful mejesty al
ed calves, standing sentinel at .bc curb-ston
ere 'Whow,' said to myself, my wife is r
cclfihB anu 'hcicuPOu 'ncic S"Spt uvN
lie upon me from my own door, like sh
led in full sail, a large woman Of incfiiab
dignity. She wore gloves Of aristocral
ex- smallness, scented like a sachet powd,
&c. and slit in the fingers to yentilate di
OF monds She had a double chin, likewi
to a treble and quadruple, She wore h
eeD nose in the air aud her eyes on the chil
md ney pots Of the opposite houses She d
i've not, Of course. discern me in passing, Il
cur | her. for that matter, as at that insta
'dy | was experiencing the delights Of bel
was smothered in velvet aud point lace,
got The parlor was full. My wife in
gh' old black silk-second best, and just NJ
and her afternoon rg-a knot Of blue vel'
ged 10 her braids, stood talking to half d.
) to en- persons Of various ages aud conditc