The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-19

her pupils unknown to her husband, and
took greatdelight In persuadipg him tina
She had saved some money from thesmal
sum allowed her for expenses. .0h, VI
were well off them she said with EN-
phasis, speaking Of this busy. careworr
time; 90 much happier than what was 4
follow. w was looking for some
thing TO do, but It had suddenly grown
very hard 70 find. ReyerSes always come
with . dull, Supplying surprise. Met
cannot believe that they themselves are
not 10 some way exempt from the worst
luck, and though their friends 90 dowr
at their aide somehow they will keep
afloat till rescue comes. he was an ex.
pert accountant, and took home the book
Of q firm to balance nights, but before
his third months salary was drawn the
house had failed and. paid only 10eenta
on the dollar.
Aboutth this time he came home one fore.
noon to End the room taken up with two
little girls to whom his wife vas giving
lessons on the piano. Il Ia pitiable to Be
Obliged to say that W was Just enough
Of 4 mar to get furious at the sight. II
looked as II his wife distrusted his ability
TO provide for her. And when q woman
once felt independent and took her sup
portinto her own hands how long would q
husband have q hold gu her heart? II
was thoroughly mannish, IL not manly,
but to bring him to q better mind, he fell
sick with q low fever, getting wet in a
fall rainstorm while walking across town
to save car-fare. His wife took care Of
him like an angel and kept her pupils
beside, for the landlady, kink-hearted az
landladies will Acknowledgements OF
q hardening life, told her to put the
piano in the common parlor while her
husband was sick and teach her pupils
there.
got up, very thin and weak, with no
occupation and adoctor's bill Of seventy
eight dollars TO provide for. His wife
walked necessarily for o week In search
Of cheaper rooms, and found them In 3
fat beyond Eighth street, where they had
a little parlor and a bedroom for seven
Idollars q week. She cooked their bit OF
ham and boiled their eggs for breakfast
by the parlor FIRE till the maiden sisters
who let the rooms objected to the smell
OF cooking, because ut made the place
seem like q tenement.house.n As there
we're about ten families in 1t whose din
ners perfumed the entries perpetually,
Mrs. W couldn't see the force OF the
objection. Then the weird sisters took
ofense and made the further objection
that Mr.. W didn't seem 10 have any
visible means Of support, and they disap.
prove Of his wife going out at all hours
Of the day. Then they further objected
to her practising, and limited that they
should expect whoever took the rooms in
future to take turns in cleaning the hall.
floors and stairs. Mira. W never told
her husband, but TO keep peace and hold
the rooms, which were the beat they could
afford, she took turns at the mop and
broom, sweeping the hall ont every other
morning and scrubbing the floor ever
other week. She took of the diamond
which her husband gave her for an en-.
gagement ring, TO do the moppipg, and
looking at her hands, now losing . little
OF their whiteness with backing the CRATE
and washing the plates, put the ring
aside, never 10 wear 1t again. 1t was too
much q mockery OF their fallen fortunes.
The rooms acednorth and were always
damp, being in one Of those hastily built
houses occupied before the plaster Is dry,
and the lessons were always given In
dark parlors where there never was any
FIRE. SO the oyer-worked, poorly-fed
woman often went chilled from morning
ill night. Rheumatism attacked her
hands, stiFening them 80 she could no
longer play. She gave singing lessons as
long as she could, but her pupils fell of,
and at last she had only two or three
mechanics' children, who took lessons for
SO a quarter, their mothers being "will-
ing 10 pay q little extra for the name oil
having a high class teacher" as they
phrased 1t. She also went to read daily
Ito an invalid lady nearly three miles
from where they lived, but the car-fare
almost ate up the small sum paid every
All this time W could only fnd
odd jobs TO d~o-copying, making mp
books, writing prospectuses, trying agen.
cies, and all the little ways to exc out a
living known to those whom We are too
apt 10 call The lower glasses. w
heard himself called so for the first time
one night when he called to see about a
position at a fashionable apartment hotel
where he had often visited three years
before. BE turned and looked at himself
in the mirror Of the hat rack. His tweed
coat was rubbed, his necktie had lost its
gloss, his hat was shabby, and, rs he look
ed down, his trousers were certainly
frayed. So he calmly accepted the fact
that he was no longer outwardly = gen-
tleman.n A certain freedom gave him
the feeling OF having nc position 10 keep
up. He could 60 down on the docks and
turn steyedore. Alas the word For he
went down, and found himself IN the
presence OF 3 hundred or more rough,
burly workingmen, any one Of whom
would have taken precedence Of him on
account Of strength. Il Ia very nice to
talk OF = mans going down on the docks
TO get work II he can't do better, but he
wants some experience add muscle to
start with even there.
What didn't the Va do to liveH
They directed letters at 81 a thousand,
taking the work home "a a favor, when
ordinary employees had to work down
town at S4a week. They copied a play
or two, satisfied to make so cents a day
at It, but the theatrical firm made a con-
tract to have their copying all done by q
new process, and that threw the VS.
ont q work. About this time, TO be able
to keep their decent rooms, they break
tasted on oatmeal crackers, toasted, with
water to drink, and dined on mush or
barley soup, bought by the bowl at a
restaurant and heated at their own Ere,
with q few vegetables added to make 1t
They had mourned sadly for the little
one they lost-in better times, bat Mrs.
W was never wearied giving thanks
that 1t vas safe from the trouble which
had befalIen them. The eight Of the
restaurant windows used to nearly mad