Daily globe., 1879-04-06

idug, SuC IL lilll IL III III CStdU-
lishment. l don't intend to encourage
female INSTRUMENTATION. I believe the
husband was born to govcrn-the wife to
obey. If more husbands had my firm
ness, my tact in governing, things would
be very different at the present day."
And Mrs. Flint, left at home, summon
ed the housekeeper.
~ learn that my husband has given you
weeks warning?" she said.
Eyes, ma'am."
"And is it your wish to leave US, Mrs.
Burns?"
"Oh, no, Mrs. Flint, for I don't know
where I could find another place, and
have to pay my little girls board out of
my wages"
II believe there is considerable work
to be done in this establishment"
eyes, Mrs. Flint, great deal. Then
Mr.. Flint is so particu!ar-he wants to
have everything done just so. And that's
why am sorry to go just as you come,
for know you are easy to please"
allow do you know that?" said Mrs.
Flint, smiling.
"By your FACET looks so good
natured. Mr.. Flint says, ma'am," she
continued, hesitatingly, 'that I'm to
show you some about the work. But if
you try to do it alone, unused to hard
work as you are, it will make you SICK in
week."
II think very likely it would, Mrs.
Burns. But have not the slightest idea
Of doing the work. At all events, you
must not secure another situation until
you hear from me again. am very con-
fident," she added smiling, "that it Mr..
Flint sends you away, he will be only
todanxious to take you back again"
The week passed quickly.
MRS. Burns leaves us Tomorrow" re.
marked Maj. Flint at the tea table.
'Then you have decided upon it,"
"Yes, madam, believe I ammo unced
the fact to you some days ago."
81 thought it possible my objections
might have weighed with you and in
duced you toschange your mind"
81 never change my mind," said her
husband loftily.
"But I warn you that I have little
experience as cook"
| "You can learn, madam"
"Perhaps I May not cook to suit your
taste2"
"That IS my affair."" he observed,
stifly.
Had he been aware of the plot forming
in the lady's fertile brain, he might not
have felt so confident in regard to the
quality of his bread and butter; but as it
was, he retired for the night all uncon-
scious of the discipline to be meted out
ohm.
So the following morning Mrs. Burns
received her wages and was sent off.
! At ten o'clock the marketing was
brought home.
At the usual dinner hour, Maj. Flint
made his appearance.
The table was laid with more than its
usual neatness.
Mr.. Flint congratulated himself on
this fact as a personal triumph on his
part.
But he hardly felt so complacent when
the dinner came up.
The beef was terribly overdone; the
vegetables, on the contrary, were not
half cooked. In short, there was nothing
fit to eat on the table. This Maj. Film
, angrily remarked.
. Il dare say" said his wife, placidly
II am not a very good cook"
= With his appetite only half satisfied, h
y was obliged to rise from the table.
The following morning breakfast wa
e DELAYED more than half an hour, and
l. when it was ready, scarcely eatable
Mr.. Flint was quite out of humor; but il
t, reply to his indignant remonstrances hi
e wife coolly remarked:
"You know, Mr.. Flint, I warned 70,
that I might not cook to please you
" taste"
=. And so matters deteriorated rathe
te than improved. The tea and coffee, a
d prepared by his wife, were quite nau
It seating to him, while the bread was nc
only sour but hard and clammy, requil
in ing considerable effort to mastlcate il
u And what rendered it all the more exas
In perating was that, no matter how inferic
u in quality or distasteful to himself, hi
be wife professed her inability to discove
any fault in what was prepared for th
ut table, protesting that it was in perfet
ps accord with her own taste.
The following day Mr.. Flint seete
himself at the dinner-table, his min
filled with various emotions. He W,
QS growing tnlu, liz Ic1t Sut1 UOt d SOO
j." square meal had he eaten in three day
IS "This woman will be the death of m
sure as fate," he said to himself, ga zin
lit at the food placed before him.
Here was the rich, juicy steak that
himself had selected and sent from Il
is market, after all his instructions as to ho
ms it should be breiled, shockingly overdo
in fact, almost burned to crisp, b
he wife meanwhile partaking of it with e,
dent relish.
r." "What taste this woman must have
he said with horriied eyes.
me II have made you an extra cup of /
his to-day" said the lady opposite, handi
him the cup with his dessert.
Hitherto Mr.. Flint had been very p
ich ticular in regard to his cup of tea
dessert, insisting that it should be brous
,m- to the table both strong and hot. q
the tea been prepared to his taste
as would have soothed somewhat the ri
Gus emotions within; on the contrary
was miserably weak-quite lukewa
liz" and brackish.
t it, He took one sip at the tea, and Il
set the cup down forcibly on the tai