The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
MARRYING TO ACCOMMODlTE.

At 80, David YOpp was a simple,
clild-like bachelor, with no more
thought of matrimony than a newborn
baby. All his life he had lived with his
parents upon the little homestead, and
apparently it had never occurred to him
that they three might not continue to
live there answered till the end oftime;
for when palsy laid low his mother he
looked about him in grieved astonish-
ment, telling each cOndoling friend that
he couldn't understand how she came
TO die; she had never suffered any eX-
posture, and had always had plenty of
good noGrishing food. # -l'a.H 10
At her deceaSe the care of his blind
old father naturally deyolved upon Da-
vid, who, having recovered from his
first surprise that Providence should
have used him so, tied on his mothers
apron, and essayed to take her place in
the domestic department. All those
were dreary DAYS, chronicling culinary
results never before attained, let us
hope, by mortal man-results that tried
even the serenity of the sightless octo-
genarian, who had borne affiietion and
bereavement without murmur.
"Seems to me, my son, | wouldn't
worry about the cooking" he at last
suggested, mildly. That comes more
handy to the wOmen-folks. 3
But let cooking come never so ' han
dy'' to the women-folks, what avail
ed it to the Yoppses" so long as the
women-folks would not come to them,
or would come only to 90? Jane Bur
rill, an apple-cheeked country lassie,
hired cut TO David of a Monday, and
left of a Tuesday before the clothes
were dry upon the line; the Widow
Mulliken, her successor, departed at the
end of a week; Margaret Ramsay
wouldn't stay where there were no chill
dren; and Ellen Dunlap wouldn't stay
where there was no matrOn. Thus one by-
one long procession of females passed
in and out of the hip-roOfed house be-
hind the ,lilacs, till August found the
lopps again alone. In this extremity
David came to my mother.
al don't know what father and III
do for a housekeeper, Miss Farnsworth
FACT said he, plaintively. "Do YOU
suppose Lovisa Braun would help us a
spell, Just to accommodates
Ny mother smilingly shook her head.
/" You forget how sensitive Miss Lo-
lisa is, David, and that you are bach
elor. She'd be afraid people would
talk"
IS ho, ma'am; you don't say SOW
and David's face Redeemed furiously, till
it seemed to drain all color from his
tawny beard, leaving it positively pale.
Really, David, | don't see but you'll
have to marry" laughed my mother,
mischievously, going on with her sew
ing.
His lower jaw dropped as if the re-
mark had been a blow, and had hit him
on the chin. .-.. .-----
% You don't think, now, Miss Farms
worth, shall be neceSsitated to 60 that
length?" he gasped. - .....
"Oh no, no; certainly not. only
spoke of it as the best means of securing
permanent help" -..... DID. -.E.--,
Il don't know but I'd oughter mar
~" unused David, uneasily. " But the
idee comes to me rather sudden. |
hadn't calculated on any thing fikethst,
and seems 5 ifrtvas too much TO ex-
poet of me-fact."
A few days later he again appeared
before my mother, twitching at his coat
collar in the vain endesyor 10 hide his
embarrassment.
If so be, Miss Farnsworth, he
ammered, with characteristic cork
screw twist of the neck-'.if so be /
couldn't get round marrying, what's
your notion about Lovisae According to
the best of your belief, would She BE
favorable to changing her sitovation?"
He ended with his head quite. on one
side, and tipped backward like chick
ems in drinking, which forced my moth
er to address her reply to his Oecipital
curls. She could hazard noopinion-oR
the subject, she said. She would .ad7
wise him 10 confer with the lady herself.
81 hate to, masterly," groaned1he
with engaging eandor; but this |
know-if ask any woman 70 haYe-Iae,
81 ii he I.oVisa - a !