The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-02-10

OF your hesrtlcssness. How could you
treat the poes suffering angel - you
did! should have thought the sight
of her innocent baby looking feet
would have moved you to compss.
sion, if nothing else. It is perfectly
plain to me that Billy ought to be
whipped for his cruelty to her in the
6rst part of the evening. Dunder-
headed Irishman, he 10 no more 6t to
be married to that gentle, refined
creature than - an angel Of light"
"Perhaps one Of your sympathetic
disposition would have suited her
BETTER" said Mrs. b. with withering
sarcasm.
"You are trying to insult me Lizzie;
but let me tell you that if l WAS mar
ried to = woman like her-so sensitive
to all disagrseabls in0uencss-l should
be tempted to keep her in . band box,
and never let any Of the worries Of
life come to her."
"The kind Of = bandbox her 6rst
husband is in" suggested. "Cer-
tainly that would meet my hearty ap-
probation."
"How is it, Lizzie, you women can
be so cruel to each other:."
"Women of her stripe, sir" 7 said,
"don't shine to dazzle other women.
And while they concentrate oil their
rays upon you men, We from our
shaded position can see clearly oil
that is going on and the motive that
lies hidden from you."
"The baseness of your suspicious
disgust me-" he said. "Can it be that
you are the woman | considered the
most tender hearted and most credu-
lous creature in existence only one
month ago2 Is it possible that you
are jealous."
o, what blow was there, my coun-
/ try women! Much too close TO the
truth to be taken as 4 joke. As may
be imagined, all the seeds of Satan
lying SO long dormant in Mrs. Browns
tender little heart took root at once
upon this charge mons,rous-so (hesv-
en- forgive the lie) untrue. They not
only took root, but achieved a
growth so sudden and gigantic ~ en-
tirely to eclipse all such prodigies as
Jonsh's gourd and Jacks bean stalk,
She started up in bed. 1t came into
her head to have fit, but she doubt.
ed her genius in an extemporaneous
production of such magnitude, and
concluded to nut it off until she had
time for private rehearsal The
most tragic thing she could substi-
tute was to throw the bed clothes on
the floor. This had decided sue
cess in Alice's drama, but Mr.. Brown
arrested tho movement and rolled
himself up in them like huge chry.
sails. BAfled at every point, she
wanted to fight, and was encouraged
in this when she remembered to have
heard of some woman who whipped
her husband whenever she wanted to
first after tying him up in sheet.
Mr.. Brown had already tied himself
up. How accommodating, to be
sure.
"Your las, move was just exactly
in nv hand,' she said. II have how
got you where | want yoa." and she
began pounding him with both fists.
But she might as well have been
pounding tho feather bsd for al the
harm it did. At last the chrysalis be.
came convulsed rs with an earth
quake, and voice, quivering with
suppressed mir,h and pity too, issued
from its depths:
"Don't hurt your dear little dim
Piled fists" it said. III come out and
lot you whip me il you choose, but
remember that I had rather be kiss.
cd"
"Get Alice to kiss you. dare say
you would like that bstter;" and
with this last shot there came again
that something about the size Of an
apple dumping into my threat; and
this time she could not swallow it.
She did get real fits, and the gymnas-
ito exercises she went through that
night to get rid of them would make
an article of twenty -one columns in .
sporting journal, with Continued
next week" at the end of it.
The demon of hysteris yielded to
stimulants soon after midnight, and it
was |, and not Alice, who got up be.
fore daylight to get breakfast for the
men. Mr.. Brown tried to help me.
He did not know how to turn bat
tercake, and OF course . great big
thing like him, with No. 10 boots to
stumble over, was awfully in my way.
But recognized the intuition of his
kind heart. aad suffered the inconve-
nience thankfully.
For four days Alice laid in bed,
while did the work and Billy wait.
ed her. There was nothing the mat
ter, only she could not wesr her shoes
and stockings. If treated her cruel,
retribution followed me. was taken
sick almost at 5000 as she was able to
do the work again. In the mean time
she had poisoned Biliy's mind to such
a degree that he could hardly bear
the sight Of me, and she was using
her influence with him to get him to
leave Us and 60 back to Sacramento,
the place where she had formerly
lived. One day, while l was still 10
bed, though convalescent, Mr.. Brown
told me that Billy was dissatisfied
and Intended going away immediate
y. IN his settlement with him, hs
found grea, discrepancy between the
time as he kept it and the time as
Billy kept it. Investigating the mat.
ter, we discovered that Alice had
kept the time for him since their mar
riage, and had put in more days than
there we're between the date Of bis
coming to 10 and the date of his lsav.
ing. Billy was surprised at this, and
feared that We would consider him
dishonest. ut vas . mistake in Alice.
women are 30 careless you know" hs
said.
The next they they were sent to the
nearest town, in our bright new wag-
on, together with Billy's tool chest
and Alice's enormous Saratoga trunk.
And that was the last of them for
some time. When / got up about
the house again, l found it stripped
clean of every portable thing l had.
Sheets. table. cloths. towels. papkins.