The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-20

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and keep things from falling, for when May
laughs she gets as weak as "a She says, "Say
| as a 'Borrowgcye.'" Her laughing so much
sensibly depreciates her market value as wife
and mother, of course.
My salary is riz twenty dollars month, and
1 am saving to buy-wer, never mind what; you
| shall come to when it is bought.
Your not infelicitous
HARRY BENDER.
May will add P. S.
MAYS T. S.
DEAREST AUNTY If you were only with us
hough, to be sure, don't know where we could
put you, unless y"u could go to sleep under my
painting table, nov transformed into ironing
| table, or curl up il the babys bath-tub.
The idea of Halls pretending to keep the
great secret mystery to you That was only
his sweet way of leaving me the pleasure of
telling it.
You know Perth. where the Woods went
that summer? Well, there is little house of
four rooms not ten minutes walk from the de-
pot OF the Long Branch railroad, which goes
near that little old village. The little house is
not very pretty now, but it can be made so,
and, Oh, joy it is dirt cheap CThis is Halls
cultured remark, and of course good enough
for Halls wife y
Aunty, think of it I am nearly wild a
home, little house to be the mistress of, and
| for Hal to come to
F! Well, we have saved SIG and only need
| $3.50 more. which Mr.. Chace is going to ad-
vance to Hal.
There is brave old oak, and plenty of
| greenery all around u.s. and the great wide bay
in sight, where Hal says the biggest ships that
Sail the
can come right in, and there are walks to lovely
| places So you see we are going to healthy
neighborhood for my precious lamb of love.
| I lam so well, and life is SO sweet I often
have little weeps all to myself for sheer hsppi-
ness. Happiness is good for people, Aunt
Dodo. Away with the false theory of the uses
of adversely 1 am not half selfish and
thoughtless as 1 WAS. 1 may be trife vain,
but Hal keeps telling me that my temper is
only little lower than the angels, and that
am his dty bitty pa'idge. Qsnt that too fran-
| tically imbecile y 1t is lucky that baby cannot
understand Halls nonsense. Hal must learn
to speak English in the bosom of his family
before Miss Bender's talking days come.
You had better read my end of the letter
first, and call his the postscript. I meant to
tell you all about baby, but have no time
now. You are coming to see us soon as we
get settled. Babs sends a honey-kiss. Good
| by. Your beatitudinous MAY BENDER.
Five years passed. May and Aunt
| Dodo sat together in the cottage which
was to have been an earthly paradise.
Nothing had gone wrong that anybody
could have helped, apparently, but
somehow the glory had rubbed off.
May seldom laughed till she was too
weak to hold the baby nowadays. Her
arms were oftener inclin ed to feel heavy
from fatigue; but then this was the
third baby, and a much more exacting
one than "Miss Bender" lad been.
It was delicious June. The white
sails went up the bay, and took Vene-
tian colors from the sunset.
"You look tired, May; give me the
baby"
"No, Aunt Doio it would only save
| drop in the bucket of my tiredness.
1t is quite chronic said May, with a
laugh which I am glad Harry did not
hear. Laughter without a heart in it
has bad effect on man in his own
home.
"Do you always have that pain in
your back ? Doesn't it ever stop?"
"Never," answered May. "That is,
it never does when I am awake, and
often dream that I am being sawed in
otwo at the spine, SO it is to be supposed
it goes on when am asleep
CT wish you would see DOCTOR" said
Aunt Dodo, peeling apples.
Harry thought as you do" May re-
marked, when she came back from put
ting the baby to sleep in its cradle in the
next room.
"Thought what ?" asked the old lady,
wonderingly.
"Oh, nothing. About the DOCTOR
"What was that? 1 forget. Oh, yes,
about your pain"
ct wish 1 could forget it one minute
in nv life. One minutes utter rest p
said May Harry did go to one," she
continued, :" though L begged him not
to waste the money, for, as you know,
we shall lose the house if that mortgage
is foreclosed, and every dollar tells hut
he would. Poor Hal T. said the wife,
wiping her eyes. "He said my temper
needed curing, if my back didn't. It's
very hard on him, my being SO nervous.
What do you suppose the doctor told
him %
"I'm sure I don't know" said Mrs.
Josephine Pinkham Il beg pardon fol
not IL PRODUCING Aunt Dodo properly to
the reader before now.)
Nay laughed again.
"He advised him to take me to Eu,
rope"
"Did you ever %
.He told Hal that five women out OF
ten had more or less of the same thing,
and that rest was the only cure-rest OF
body and mind.
"Did he know how you were situat-
ed ?" asked Mrs. Pinkham.
81 don't imagine he could have taken
Hal for millionaire" replied May. sc
rather think it was yelled satire on the
doctor part There is resort, under
stand, where the most absolute repose
both of body and mind is enjoyed.
"Where, my dear? If you could Oh
lygor'
eyes, think so sometimes, said May
.sbut there is little hope for long tims