Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-10

erS living with her, her own mOGner anO
her husbands mother. They had Meth
er of them any property, but she owned
house and took boarders in it to sup
port them all.
Well, | made the same proposition to
her old ladies that / had made to my
mother-in-law and they both agreed.
Then went home and built an addition
to my house and soon brought my second
wife and her mothers there. We had
some occasional pouting at first, but |
always held two points without yielding
i was the master in my own house and
would never let anybody worry my wife.
So, pretty soon, my four-in-hand learned
to travel smoothly together:
"Ah, me! looked forward to happy
old age with that dear wife, but in two
years she was killed in a railroad acct
dent. / was with her on the train and
was badly hurt, lying for weeks in a
state of inconsistencies. When | re.
covered my dear wife's grave was green.
| felt 80 bad and my health was 80 poor
that did not care for woman again
until all my children were married and
I was left alone with my four old ladies.
Then I met a pretty little romantic
widow, who was $50 sorry" for mel She
wrote poetry and painted pictures, and
was dying sill the while of consumption
that scourge of our city; and I thought
as she had struggle to take care of her
self and her husbands mother, /
would smooth her passage to the
grave"
$50 1 married her and her
mother-I mean-well, you know what
/ mean. / treated her mother-in-la law
just as I did the other old ladies, and
that wife lived seven years after all. 1
made her SO happy that she adored me,
and we had the sweetest baby you ever
saw! Oh, what lovely creature that
child was-a little angel She lived
only three years, and then faded away.
But have several beautiful pictures of
her, painted by her mother"
"And did you have no trouble with
that mother-in-lawT"
Not while her daughter-in-lawl lived !;
she was slways taking care of her sick
child and grandchild. But when Emma
was gone and all seemed quiet again,
the old lady wanted to marry me-"
What! Emma's mother-in-lawW
Yes. She was q handsome woman
still, and she knew it; about my age, and
no relation whatever; so she set her cap
at me-"
"And that made commotion in the
house2''
"Well, yes. Yes, it did. never
knew my mother to get into a real rage
till then. She was madl She told me
10 soh% Of fo fb,.a
younger the better! Then got mad! /
stormed away at all my old ladies
together; threatened to break up house
keeping and turn them out upon the
world, away from the pleasant home
which they had enjoyed so long that
they really believed to be theirs. Final
ly declared / would leave them in it,
to fight like Kilkenny cats, while /
would live at hotel in the city. And
I kept my word. l lived at one hotel
after another, but always went home on
Saturday nights TO go to church the
next morning as usual, and take my old
ladies for drive In the afternoon as
usual, so that the neighbors should not
be gossiping about us.
Chow good they were to me, then! !
Lucy 1Fcu eOSStucA llhC d uCot VI kAItcuS!
But my mother assured me that peace
would not last long if / lived at home
without wife; so when I met pretty
little orphan girl who had not relative
in the world / told her all about my
affairs, and the sweet creature with tears
of pity in her eyes consented to marry
me and be good to my old ladies. And
she has kept her word, in both letter and
spirit, and I am thankful that life has
given me so many blessings!"
Just then young Mrs. B returned,
and though I observed through the
evening that her manner towards her
husband was more that of beloved and
loving daughter then of wife, yet she
appeared more serenely happy than any
woman / remember ever to have seen.
This story is from life excepting that
I have changed all the names. Sol
D. has been dead some years; the
will he left was as just and manly as his
other acts.-NeU York MaiI
A Fatal Box on the Ear.
The practice, which is sadly too