The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-14

like my wages, for I'm going 10 leave
tonight. Things are very different
from what they was when oar Mrs.
Chester was M home, and rs l can't
give satisfaction, I'd better be going
III send for my trunk in the morning.
unless the old lady, with "A de6an,
glance at Mrs. Chester, " would like 10
search il first
"Nonsense, Mary said Frank, re-
alizing in a moment his own present
discomfort and his wife's disnay II
Mary were suffered 10 depart" non
sense; you are not going az all. Why.
what would your mistress say when
she returned9 Now just go up stairs
and take of your hat, and then come
down and wait on the table like a good
girl.v And deXtrously leading her 70
to the door, he whispered '.Just do
the best YOU can, Mary, and IN give
you five dollars, extra, and the others
TOO. Ny wife will be home i'm a week.
and then all will be right again
Turning back TO the dining-room.
considerably ruilled, Frank refused 10
hear any thing about Mary, extraya-
gance in general, and his own extrava-
gance in particular, and pretended to
be deep in his newspaper until dinner
was served.
But even this ordinarily agreeable
meal was TO be an annoyance tonight,
for il was made up entirely Of the rem
nants Of the last nights feast, aud Frank
grumbled audibly, much TO his moth
er's surprise.
"I'm sure | don't know wha, has
come over you, Frank" she said, Sc
verely. "l.ast night You had ten times
As much on the table As you needed,
and tonight YOU object 70 eating those
things, when it's the only way 10 keep
them from being wasted
al know very well that / have been
fool, but | am quite cured % my folly
now; and so Nellie will find when she
gets back" said Frank
Perhaps Mrs. Chester smile would
not have been 50 complacent If she had
known exactly what her son meant:
but she did not, and il was just as well
A week passed. The servants grnm-
bled, rebelled, and were only saved
from open mutiny hy constant remon-
their master, backed with more sub
stantial arguments occasionally.
Frank said little il any thing 10 his
mother. but like the famous owl. he
kept up an incessant thinking His
daily letters 10 Nellie were almOs, pitt
full in their description ~ his forlorn
condition. and brough, quick loving
answers from the little wife.
At the end Of that week Mrs Chester
was suddenly summoned home, and
Frank had no sooner seen her safely
embarked on the boat than he hassned
to his office. arranged for few lays Of
absence, and took the firsttrain 10 Glen
wood, where he surprised and delighted
his wife by his unexpected presence.
In the days that followed the reunion
Frank confessed his change OF views
with great candor and many self-accu-
satiOns Nellie was too well pleased TO
/ be unforeiying, aud the element Of dis
cord was hushed When the husband
and wife returned to their home, moth
7 ING was said about Mrs. Chester's ways
and methods, and from that time on
ward Frank was content 20 let Nellie
expend such proportion Of his ample
I income as their social position demand
ed, without grlmbling az necessary out
lays.
Indeed, he was heard 90 say in after
years, that the man who attempted 70
make Of his wife a second edition Of his
mother, was only making very great
mistake ~ Harptr's Ba-Gr.