The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-07-03
A birthday Present.
HOW A HUSBAND DUT1FULLY TOOK HIS w1FE's
ADVICE UPON ITS MERITS.

hoW HUSBAND DUTIFULLY TOOK HIS WIFE
ADVICE UPON ITS MERITS.
1.
"Hither. my ownest," the husband
Unto his wife did say
Thou knowest tomorrow Is thy
Dear Cousin Flo's birthday,
Ye twain have cen as sisters been,
And 'twere both Just and pleasant,
That we on her should now confer
A handsome birthday present.
Twas at tier house first met thee,
And when thy hand sought
She lent such aid as usually
Girls in her place do not.
So forth to tho storo of Tiffany
From oOuuttr or from shelf
A fitting present to select.
Jewel, or bronze or delf
Aud let 1t be such gift as thou
Wouldst choose for thine own self
On such occasion one should not
Be covetous Of pelf.
II.
Forth Jared the husband and the wife
To the store Of Tiffany;
When she had heard her husbands word
An angry wife was she
He nath thought eno'," she said, "of Flo,
But never thought OF me.
He knoweth, or he ought t. know, .
II he knoweth anything,
That the dress wear was worn threadbare
When had it turned this spring.
When at the Easter-tide the theme
OF hats dared broach,
he said, You may, but in way
or infinite reproach,
My references to expenditure
or d llars--e'en of dimes
Are'met with gloomy lectures on
The hard ess of the times.
And yet, in spite of his complaints,
When It is Cousin Flo,
To whom birth ny gift he'd give
He Can find cash emo"
He should have known" the wife went on,
With q sardonic grin,
"Not only Flo's cousin am
But In tense her twin.
Her hirth aud mine are on one leaf
or he family Bible Srit
NV birthdays un the same day as hers,
But he does not think Of it.
Satsuma are. or bronzes fair,
Or dead gold jewelry
To his Flos he ding. but anything
Is good enough for me r.
In such ungentle mood she came
To the store of Tiffany.
~.
"We grosser mortals cannot Judge
Tween diamonds and tween PASTE"
The husband said unto his wife
AnC nence on WOman'B taste
Implicit reliance in such things
AS these must aye be placed.
Sit down. my dear, selection make
AS II twere for yourself
or any pretty article
In show case or on shelf
Icare not what the price may be
Or what the article
An 1t please thine eve, have it put by
And will foot the BILL"
fendish thought was in that wife's heart,
And she smiled as if in elee,
AS they brought her there all that was fair
In the store Of Tiffany.
These diamond earrings" said her lord
Seem handsome unto me"
:" Diamonds" said she. "are worn no more
In the best society,""
Fair is this string OF Orient pears"
"'Tis pretty, without doubt,
But read in the last Sunday World
That pearls were going out"
"Goodly to see these opals be-"
''John, opals do not wash
And they only wear coral jewelry
In the wilds of far Oshkosh.
No woman that respects herself
Wears costly jewels now;
She leaves their use to the parvenues
And the Bowery maids, 1 trow.
An had NV choice of all the store
For my own self, wis
No article in it would more
Suit with my taste than this"
"What ?" said the lord, reluctantly,
"Perchance you're satisfied,
But as gift would not this look,
In the poets language snide?"
She beat the pavement of the store
With an impatient toe
whats good enough for me-" she said,
Isn't good enough for FLOP"
Her husband marked an angry flush
On her round cheek come and go;
50 l did not mean that Louisa, dear
You should not answer 80.
Ho, salesman in a package do
Ne up this article
Send it to-day to this address,"
The salesman said, will,"
And the husband he got back some change
Out OF i've dollar bill.
The wife has hardly reached her house
When at the door she sees
A wagon, the superscription
Whereof is Iiffanys.
They give to her parcel small,
She tears the paper away,
Wlthin's card, TO my dear wife,
On her twenty-third birthday"
She opens the casket with trembling hand,
And it to her eyes doth show,
The tWOpenny halfpenny article
She had picked out for Flo
Which she had sworn beyond return
In the monde was all the 60
Her dark eyes filled with tears, for breath
A moment she did catch,
And gazing on her husbands gift
She softly said, "rhe wrrrrrrrrrTrretoh!!l!p'
-Neio York World.
NANNIE.
cannot set down in so many words
Just when or how it came to be under
stood between my partner, John Still
man, and myself that 1 was to marry his
Mamie, when she was old
enough. have a vague impression
that she was in long clothes at the time