The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-01-23


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81 tell said ifth sudden inspi
alton, ne must set a carpenter to tai
Il down the dloor-facii gs. TIheIl II pass
X But, Charles, 9 exclaimed my Wit
Il that IS on do. II cannot stay in Il
1 Kitchen, because there will Be no room f
the table and chs nor the COG
z either she added dolefully
4 Oh RI said 4. Well, then, m 7dea
I I we must get d mason and knock out thes
!, llside wallis at once.
y 4 But the result was that 4 had to go bae
!, !, 70 fay friend, the agreeable salesman !
4 Zinc g 90. 8, and ask him TO exchange Oh
largest refrig igerator for the smallest one /
X be found 454
did not think he was as genial thi
4; time. supposed, after what 4 had seen {
IA him, that he would have sworn profoun
ynpathy at the recital of my perpleNities
y But he didnot. I don't think he hear,
Il all / said to him, and found that ha,
i been mistaken in my estimate of his char
u acter: He was not such an agreeable an
. Il intel1igentman as i had imagined: How
lever, I picked out the second refrigerator
and then was obliged to buy seyera
4 articles to make up the difference in price
II So tooka sausage ge-chopper, an ice-crean
freezer and q set Of croqlet. ss
1 A great part Of our furniture could no
be aecommod odated in our rooms, and wax
therefore stored for us By Emily y mamma
So we had to do without a piano, buffet
or a bureau. Bit then, as Emily cheer
fully observed, small rooms have their adj
yantages.
For you couldn't poke the fire. raise
and lower the Wind oW-sha AIDES, II iing the
bell for otti1lia, without leaving your seat
at the breakfast able, if you live in large
rooms,' and certainly that was very true.
And, by the way, I haven't told you
about otillia yet. Most people would have
called her our servant; but Emily said she
was our assistant in housekeeping. She
spoke of herself in her note answering
our advertisement, as 'sa young person of
culture and refinement, who had met with
disappointment, and had had a blight. Z =
My own impression of her was that she
was well calculated to blight any one who
might be doomed to her daily companion
ship. She had an unpleasant way of
becoming suddenly absracted while in the
performance of her daily duties, and then
rousing herself with a prodi gious start and
a succession Of hollow sighs. On one of
these occasions she informed Emily con-
tidentailly that ssthe Vision III the Loved
and Lost had glided on the scene.''
As the number Of mishaps, including
much broken china, had resulted from
these inopportune appearances of "the
Loved and Lost, we did not look ainably
upon them. But when I advised Emily to
change her handmade, she refused on the
ground Of compassion.
= ssWhy, Charles, she is such well edu-
Gated and refined young woman that she
could not endure the annUyanees Of ordi-
nary SERVICE said my wife, earnestly.
1sShe tells me every day that she is so hap
py with us, and she looks up to me- as if
were her MOTHER
Every affecting, certainly" was my
comment, considering that yon are twen-
" and she will never see forty again.
"Oh, Charles! why, she is only thirty;
she told me 50; and you know she says she
IS ablighted being, concluded my wife,
solemnly;; SO you ought not to be impa-
tent with the poor thing
OF course Otil1ia remained, and / had to /
.econeile myself to her woe-begone ways.
But her cooking was our greatest trial, and
before many days Emily announced TO me
Ter intention Of joining the cooking class.
Its such an opportunity, my dearr'
'he told me one evening. 8 Professors
stoopann is a very accomplished man, who
las the most charming ideas about cook
ng. He#eonsiders it a fine art, and he can
make any one a perfect cook inten lessons.
We begin tomorrow. =
Don't you think il would be wise to teach.
)ttillia something 2 I observed and
ct her do the cooking. instead Of doing It'll
rourself?,' #s3ss
ssNo, indeed 2 said Emily, promptly ;I
4 mtst take the lessons and instruct Otil-
ia by exampl rather than precept: Be-
ides, lin q Whisper) I'm afraid tile poor
hing doesn't learn very easily; she had so
much trouble, you know. -
So my wife became a member of the i'll
ustrious Stoopann's S class, and grew more
enthusiastic over his teachings day by day.
sIt's Wonderfu1 perfectly wonderful
loW much that man knows she ex-
laimed, when the course was half through.
And he's such an economist, too! Why1
e has been teaching us that nothing need
e wasted In a household, not even an old
But there! CAME very near telling
ou my secret; and want to surprise you
ONE day i
The same morning run across my old
ollege ehum, Jack PereiYal, on my. way
own town. He had just returned from d
hree years tour Of the continet1t, so had
great deal to tell him. He seemed to bel
luch interested when he learned that / was
married. and keeping house, and he readily
ceepted an invitation to dine with nde the E
ext DAY.
& When IzWent home and told Emily about
], she at once proposed that we should in
tea young lady to make the party COM
lete.
st would be 30 much pleasanter for
our friend to meet a young lady she
add
But then dir alii1fiig room viii be 20
roWded with four ut the table, that Otillial
Tillnever be- able to wait On us, said T.
Emily looked shocked. OtlIlia! e she
reclaimed ;;sssI I hope you don't expect Otil-fI:
ID toWait on the table when strangers are
resent. HyhysI wouldn't uggest such a
hing to her.
Then what Is the use OF keeping her 2,'sI?'
asked. s.
3.ssOh, Charles, you never have had any
ympathy for that poor thing can +
Ire i small boy to wait Z lie grocer has
very nice boy and I think ] can get him
hear, said my wife.
issSs1 cry well 8 replied have it your