Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-03

BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

10 turn an honest penny, my dear, >
said Mr.. Pensico. 4
"i'sbaw 7" said Mrs. Pcnsico.
:. arimes are hard.r said Mr.. Pensico.
"But you've got money enough re.
torted his wife, with toss of her curly
head.
~Sylyia,'' said Mr.. Pensieo, gravely,
s'tlo you know that nobody ever has
money enough ?"
NO." said Mrs. Pensica, Smelling away
with great vigor at the pan of lima beans
in her lap. Il don't know anything OF
the sort. ~
''Just think how nice it would sound, y
said Mr.. Peter Pensico, with his eyes
halt closed and his head on one side,
"Select board for few gentlemen, in a
cottage Oh the Hudson-fine view-ex-
cellent toating-plsnty of shade-milk
and vegetables-terms moderate.
think can see it now in the columns OF
the paper"
IL thought you rented this cottage to
please me r. said Mrs. Pensico, raining
down the emerald shower Of lima beans
ut tlouble-quiek rate. 1EE
+. $50 did. my dear-so did, respond
ell her husband. But why shouldn't
we please a few select bOarders, tOO?'
Mr.. Pensco was retired grocer, fiat
and forty" if not ''fair." Mrs. Pensico
had been pretty ward school teacher,
full twenty years younger. than her hus-
band, who had boarded at the same
house with the dealer in nuts, spices and
moist sugars. s
Love is like the whooping cough, a
more dangerous disease the older you
grow. Mr.. PensicO took it very hard
so hard, indeed, that he married Sylvia
Smith ut the end of a fortnlghts ac-
quaintance, and took her to live III a
pretty little cottage on the Hudson.
But as The conflagration. Of his young
love died into more steady and uneven
fame. MIR. Pensico's old spirit Of thrift
arose within him. Love in a cottage was
ali very Charming; but the wages OF
cook. chambermaid and handy man
counted up amazingly at the end of the
month. A COW grazing i'm the meadow
Was picturesque, to be sure, but the iced
bills were something to. shudder ut.
sylvia in white muslin was an adorable
object: but il sometimes occurred TO MIR.
Peusico's pcrturbed brain that calicoes
would have been more economical,
viewed from the laundress' standpoint.
In short, Love and Economy were at
.lagoers drawn i'm the noble soul OF the
ex 2. Ocery man.
.Don't you think it's a good idea, my
love 20 persisted Mr.. Pensico, brushing IA
fly AWAY from the circular bald spot on
the top of his head.
mo. DON'T" said Mrs. Pensico.
But why not ?"
Il don't like the idea of keeping a
TAVERN" retorted the bride.
NV dear" said Mr.. Pensico, 'you ex-
ayeerale. A few select boarders-"
"A few select fiddlestlcks - interrupted
Mrs. Pensico, as she rose up, flinging the
lima bean-pods all over the floor.
Mr.. PensicO looked at his wife with
calm and speculative eye.
.She don't like bOarders,r pondered he.
s.And she don't like to submit, as wife
should, to her husbands authority.
Good! Ill enforce both questions or
know the reason why!'
And MIR. Peter Pensico sat down TO
write the advertisement, whose glowing
periods had been floating ia fragmentary
radiance through his brain for the last
five or ten minutes.
Il aoon't take boarders p said Sylvia.
"My DEAR" said Peter, .'you will do
just-pre cisely-as think best"
We'll see!'' cried out Mrs. Pensico.
ga woman ought TO be proud to have
al opportunity of helping her husband
Oh in the world" Oracular;y observed
Mr. Pensico.
81 believe the richest people in the
world are always the meanest," SAID
Sylvia, with jerk of her pretty brown
carls. stDsf ssSfH
Economy my deuteronomy said
Mr. PenscO. a.Takc care Of the pence
and the pounds will take care OF them
selves "A penny saved is a penny
earned. Money makes money!
And Mrs. Pensico, fairly overwhelmed
by this cataract of proverbs, ceased bel
unayailing Inconsistencies After all
what good would they do?
Poor little Sylvia was beginning to
comprehend that marrying rich ole
screw was not the shortest way to perfect
happiness.
But woman def1ed becomes woman
dangerous, and Mrs. Peter PensicC
determined that she would not be con-
qucred. is
Four days after the appearance of the
advertisement which cost so much time
and pains, three young gentlemen ap
piled tor board.
Mr.. Pensico assumed a majesterial as
pect.
.sTen dollars week is my fixed price,
said he; ~but as there are three of you,
1 dou't mind saying twenty-five dol
lars"
And on these terms Mcssrs. Smith,
Brown and Jones became p0ssessors oil
OF the three best bed rooms of the cot
tage, driving Mr.. Pensico and his wife to
sofa bedstead in the back pailor-
'.Are we always to live so 2" plaintivcly
demanded Mrs. PensicO.
..One shouldn't mind a little inconve-
nience, my dear, when matter OF TWEEN
ty-five dollars week is at stake" said
Mr.. Pensico, with an air OF superior
wisdom.
But as the days wore on, and Messrs.
Jones, Brown and Smith began to feel
themselves more at home, matters began
to be less pleasant to Mr.. Peter Pen
sicO.
"My DEAR" said the pater fdn,ilias to
his young wife, one day, lido you think
it is quite dignified tor you to be romp-
ing out on the lawn Win those three
young men Z"
81 wasn't romping,n retorted Sylvia,
with p0ut, that showed the coral curve
of her lip to the very best advantage II
was only playing crOquet. You charged
me especially to try and make things
agreeable to the boarders, didn't you ?"
This was on Monday. On Tuesday
Mrs. Pensico went fishing with the three
boarders. Pensico might have gone too
-perhaps-only that the boat was capa-
BILE of holding but Jour.
On Wednesday there was picnic up
the river, to which Mr. Smith invited
Mrs. PeDsicO.
IN Thursday Mr. Jones and Mr.
Brown had ''elmp out" in the woOds.o
which Mrs. PensicO and one Miss Tom
linson, of the neighborhood, formed an