The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-09

He had been after a situation, which
some one had obtained before him.
"This is a mean world" he said, "I
tell you what" to his wife, az saw
dress at milliner's for sixteen dollars,
and vowed, if got the place, I would
buy that dress the first thing!"
1t turned out that while Mr.. Rowley
had been walking around the coveted
dress, chatting and joking with street
acquaintances, and smoking and trif1ing
at the corner, some one else had
taken the place he wanted, and could
have had on my recommendation, if he
had gone straight about his business.
After some serious reproof of his neg
lect, [ said:
"Now, Mr.. Rowley, I would like to
suggest little as to the laying out of a
small sum for the comfort of your fam
lily. Do you know any store conven-
iently near?''
'tpd rather go farther off," he said;
'stock in these suburban stores is linn
tied; couldn't find one of them that
keeps preserved ginger"
"Don't think of such nonsense; try to
see what is really necessary. Have you
any bread, -four, or meal ?"
mot crumb, or dust"
"Then take this money, get some
milk for the baby, a chicken for your
wife, and some good honest corned
beef for yourself"
"Don't you think" asked Mrs. Row
ley, ''that there is something in corned
beef that's apt to give US thickness
of perception, and to undermine the
elegance of our literary tastes ?"
"Don't you think, Mrs. Rowley, that
if we don't get anything to eat at all, it
may undermine life itself?n
1 tried many plans to convey, with
out rudeness, my contempt for her ab-
surdities of expression. At lastI thought
of making her repeat them. I asked
him how he CHANGED to think of living
on farm.
"Why, sir" his wife replied, "I sighed
for the balm of rural atmosphere, and
in many a day-dream L glided where
the frisking lambs, sporting on the
crystalized meadows, snuffed the evan
escent mountain dew"
Her husband looked at me, his eyes
cleaning with pride. My plan, tried
l more than once, was a total failure
since she never failed to repeat bel
pompous periods, word for word.
, Mr.. Rowley continued to hunt situa.
Y tions without success. One morning ht
e said, "I had good luck yesterday"
r / supposed he had obtained position
e and said so. But he answered:
D 81 found five dollar note"
y every good, if the loser can hear o
e it,"
j; "That would be bad" said he, "fo
: it's all gone"
d 81 suppose you paid your rent, anC
v the milk-wOman ?n
q fnrnah ~ 4haf ha haH ~
s some turtle-soup, some fresh butter anC
e a canned lobster-all luxuries in Rich
q mond. ibid you buy five dollars wortl
4 of these things?n
= "No-I laid out the balance in {
y breast-pin for my wife, and some Ro
d man candles for the baby.n
II How could such an incorrigible b.
: helped ? This man, boasting of his gen
: tlemanliness and his family, would re
: main in any and every presence, will
i his hat on, and when soliciting mer
y chant for a situation, would sit half
bent, hugging his knees by the hour
the picture of shiftless laziness.
L After awhile, arrangements wer
y made by which some of their relative
b agreed to help them if they would com
e to Baltimore. Before they started, th
child was to be baptized. 1 asked tn
" mOJner WuaJ IL was 10 O6 called.
!, She said "Glorina Waroola."
'r "Let me baptize her Mary or Helen,
or Alice" or some simple name.n
: ''I have set my heart on the other. I
4 is the name of the heroine in an Indiai
l. story; she was very beautiful charac
l ter"
1 yielded. Next morning they de
i parted. Mr.. Rowley shook my han
2, and kissed it, as I gave him the mean
d for his journey, Mrs. Rowley was char
2. acteristic. Weeping she sobbed out
: 1.-THE -bleak-wastes-o -before-u US
l. y-vision-will-o ll-often-revert-to-yo
-the-greenest-spoti it-has ever beheld!
e, -ErchGnge.