The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-11-27
THE WIFE WINS

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first impulse was to run after it, bu
as the train was out OF sight anC
y histIing for Sagetowo before they
could act upon the impulse, they re
manned in heir carriage aod discon
solately turned their horses heads
homewsrd
II all comes Of having to wait fol
a woman to get ready Mr.. Mann
broke the silence very grimIy.
Il was ready before you were 7
replied his vile.
Great heavens : cried MIR Mann,
with keen impatIence, as be jerked
the horses jA~4 DOT OF place; just
listen to that, sat in che buggy
ten minutes yelling at YOU to come
along, until the whole neighborhood
heard me.
Yes acquiesced Mrs Mann, with
the provoking placidity which none
but woman assume and every
time started down stairs you sent
me back for something you had for
gotten
MIR. Mann groaned. This is too
much to bear he said why,
every body knows that il | were GO
ing to Europe would rush into the
house, put on, clean shirt, grab up
my gripsack and fly, while you
would want at least six months for
preliminary preparations, and then
dawdIe around the whole day of
starting uotil every train had left
town
Well, the upshot of the matter
was, that the MAINS put off their
visit to Aurora until the next week,
and it was agreed that each one
should get hin or herself ready aud
get down to the train and go and
the one who failed to get ready was
to be left, The day of the match
came around 10 due time The
train was going at l0:30, and Mann,
after attending to his business, went
home at 8 10.
Now, them he shouted, 'only
three quarters of an hours time
Fly around fair field and no ia
vors, you know
And away they flew, Mr.. Mann
bulged into this room aud flew.
through that one, and Owed into one
oloset and another with inconceiva>
hle rapidity, cbuckling under his
breath all The time to think how
cheap Mrs. Mann would feel when
he started off alone He stopped on
his way up stairs to pull eff his coat,
as he ran through the dung room
and hung it on a corner of a silver
closet. Then he jerked off bis ve0t
as be reached through the hall, and
tossed il on a hook in The hat rack,
and by the time no had reached his
own room he was ready to plunge !
into his clean clothes lie pulled |
ont the bureau drawer and began to
paw at things like Scotch terrier
after rat.
Eleanor, he shrieked, where are
my shirts
Ia your bureau drawer calmly |
replied Mrs. Mann, who was stand-
ing before a glass, quietly and de
Iiberately coaxing a refrs tory crimp
into place.
We'll, by thuoder, they amt,
shouted Mr. Mann, little annoyed.
PVe emptied everything out of the
drawer, and there isn't thing out
of the drawer, and there isn't a
ng in it ever saw before.
Mrs Mann stepped back a few
PAGES. held her head on one side,
and after satisfying herself that the |
crimp would do, and would stay
where she hsd put it, replied
These things scattered around or /
the floor are all niue. Probably you
haven't been looking in our drawer
Il don't see, testify observed Mr.
Manp, why you couldn't have put
my teings out for me, when you had
nothing else to do all the morning.
Because, said Mrs Mann, settling
herself into an additional article Of
raiment with awful deiberation, mo
body put mine out for ne, A fair
field and no favors, my dear.
Err. Mann plunged into bis shirt
like a bail at red flag,
Foul = he shouted in malicious
triumph NO buttons on the neck !!
Because, said Mrs. Mann, sweet>
ly. after a deliberate stare at the
fdgetiog, impatient man, during
which she buttoned her dress aud
put eleven pins where they would
do the most good, because you have
got the shirt on wrong side out
When Mr.. Mann slid out Of the
shirt he began to sweat. lie drops
ped the shirt three times before he
got it Oh, and while it was over his
head be heard the clock strike ten.
When his head came through he
saw Mann coaxiog the ends and
bows of her neck-tie
Where's my shirt studs he
cried.
Mrs. Mann went out into another
room, and presently came back with
her gloves and her hat, and saw Mr.
Mann emptyiug all the boxes he
could fad in and abou. the bureau.
Then she said
IN the shirt you just pulled fl.
Mrs Mann put on her gloves