The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-06-08
"why Didn't You TenMe9"
BY AMY RANDOLPH.


BY AMY RANDOLPH.
Charley, you'll go with me to
the opera tonight
"To the opera? No, I don't feel
like going out"
NIFTY Hallam looked question
ingly into her husbands clouded
face.
"Charley, what ails you? You
are as grim as the Giant Blunder
bore"
81 have had hard day down
town." was the brief reply. "And l
am tired"
"You are tired all the time now,"
retorted NIFTY ,complainingly. "You
never want to go anywhere, and
you're not half as cheerful as you
used to be. Charley, 1 didn't sup
pose you would forget your lover
like ways so soon."
"Have I forgotten them, little
one? My heart is just the same"
said Charles Hallam, caressingly
smoothing his wife's golden hair.
'But, you see, business is harrass
ing at times, and one can't always
keep up holiday SMILE"
'But, Charley, l really want to
go to the opera tonight" eoaxed
NIFTY, nesting to him.
81 can't go, NIFTY, and there's the
end to it,
NIFTY looked wonderingly at him.
She could not imagine what spell
had come over him.
"He's a perfect bear, of late" said
NIFTY to herself, and she walked off
with great dignity to practice new
waltz Of Strauss's on the little cabi
net piano in her pretty little draw
ing-rOom.
Mr.. Hallam sat a while in soil
tude, staring at the fire, and then he
rose, and, taking his hat from the
tSble went out.
The next day Mr.. Monteith Jones
came into his office.
"Hallo, old fellow" said Jones.
"Hallo," rather spiritlessly re-
turned Hallam.
"Think you'll tide through
81 am trying my best to do sc"
Hallam answered. "But am afraid
it's no use. Wind and tide are
against me-"
"Well, I'll tell you what" said
Montieth Jones: ''if I were you"
"Well?"
"It's rather a delicate subject, old
fellow, but-you see I was at Drape
& Cashmere's just now, and Mrs.
Hallam was buying an Indian shawl
and fifty dollar lace parasol! And
Rapsley was there-Old Millions
head clerk, you know-looking at
black silks for his daughter, and lie
thought your wife's conduct looked
like insanity, when every one knew
how hard up you were. And il
was a little extravagant, wasn't itT''
"It would have been," Hallan
slowly answered, "if my wife had
the least idea of how matters stand
with me. But she hasn't"
Don't she know?'
''Not a word"
"And why not?" demanded Jones
"How else is she to regulate her ex
penses?"
AS Charles Hallam went hom'
that evening, he muttered;
"rn try it, anyhow. I'll have (
talk with NIFTY and see what sh'
thinks of it."
NIFTY met him, triumphantly a
the door, when he returned that eve
ming.
"0h, Charley" cried she, "Tv
been shopping to-day, And Tv
secured such lot of bargainsr'
Bargains, eh?" said Charley
rather dolorously.
"Only look at this lovely India
shawlr' cried Mrs. H. "Only thre
hundred dollars-and Mrs. Kipp's
that she gave five for, isn't part
Gle handsomer! And this parasol-
and a real Russia leather fan a
t only ten dollars. Mrs. Hopgoo
e says she would readily have give
e twenty for such a one"
"Why didn't she buy it then2'
because l purchased it first, sir
r that's why"
"They are all very pretty, m
t love-" said Charley, seating himse
: by the fire. 'But never mind 'eI
] 1uow. Come here and sit down b
Z me, ] want to have a serious tai
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