Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-14
! SIMPLE n

She was q plain, earnest-eyed wo-
Hlan, with u little knob of native hair
at the back OF her head and she sat
there, with her foot on the rocker of
the double cradle which contained
the twins, and she was putting apatch
ON the scat of Tommy's pantaloons
but she wasn't thinking about the
ballot, not she. She was waiting for
lirceno to come home; her fingers
Just aehed TO entwine among his au-
burn locks. He had been preaching
up sweet simplicity to her; had cajol-
cd her into selling her waterfall to
buy checked aprons for the young
ones ; had advised her to not stuff
out her dress in front of the shoulder
blades, where an impartial observer
would have noticed II deficiency. He
had coaxed her into burning up her
hustle even, and now he had gone off
galiyanting after that Miss FriZzle-
llerhead, who had daubed her face IN
two c%olors, wore q peck of false hair,
and hoisted herself out behind with q
hustle and in front with cork BOSOM
pads, and who. employed all other
methods of repair which any oversight
of nature had rendered necessary.
Aut Mrs. Greene was waiting for him,
and she ground her teeth. By-and-
by he came. He moped along up
stairs, trying to act as though he was
tired. She was ready for him, and
as he commenced 10 tell how tired he
was. she wreathed he. slender fingers
i'm his scalp lock. lifted his wig off
his head and dropped 1t in the CRATE.
He gave an agonized yon and flew to
the rescue; but she hit him across
the nose with the poker, and he sat
down and wept to sec it burn. Times
were hard the thing had cost him
forty dollars, and he had promised to
spend the next evening with Miss
Frlzzleherhead. He eyed the earnest
eyed woman yiciously, but he did not
-aftack her, she was armed with her
regular ten claws, two fists and the
Botatoe masher, and he contented
himself with treating her TO a little
chin mu he. ''Iou won't make much
BIZ this, YOU old hodoc," he yelled.
SIN have it out Of your hide but I'll
have another wig tomorrow. You
see, I and he began to prepare for
bed. He took out his false teeth and
put them In a cup OF water, then he
Invested himself of his wearing appa-
rel and jumped into bed, where he
lay. with his face to the wall, mutter-
ing vengeance. He turned over,
however, when he heard a clatter that
might wake the dead. The old wo-
mar was just whooping up Eliza Jane
on his false teeth, which lay on the
floor. She fairly danced on them,
with her heels, till he jumped out OF
bed then She kicked them into the
fire. .You'll run after that Miss
F~rizzieheaa, won't you!'' she re mark
cd sYou'll reduce me TO a state OF
nature by telling me how beautiful
is simplicity in q woman, and then
run of to drive that Miss Frizzlehead
around for her health, won't you!
/. while 4 stay at home and muse the
twins. We'll both be simple and ma
tural together after this, Greene"
And so they were, for Greene
couldn't repair the damage done that
night. lie ate soft beans and oat
meal cruel, which his dear wife cook
ed for him, and never again spoke to
Miss Fr~izzlehead, who didn't know
him on the street, but supposed that
her Greene had either died or left
town, and she always took him for
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