The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-11-10

was ell his wife's. She did nothing 70
make home attractive. Il is true that
she furnished him with g comforts bic
dinner, bat aft-r dinner nothing was
done to make him happy He could
either put On bis slippers aud sit down
before the CRATE fire 10 read. or he
could talk with his wife, who was =
bright, affectionate, and cheerful little
woman. but snch occupations as these
could not have any possible charm tor q
man of intellect and taste. Mr.. Hig-
ginbottom deeply bewailed his fond
Dess for rum end concert saloons. but be
appealed to all unprejodiced nen 70
concede thst he was really blameless.
If my home w.s only msde attractive
10 me, gentiemen'-h was in the habit
Of saying to the members Of q leading
temperance society who periodically
callcd on him to reform would
gladly spend all my evenings at home.
but ~ il is. am literally driven to
seek comfort elsew here. though l am q
man eminently fitted to enjoy che pleas
ures OF home life so struck we're sew
eral Temperance men with the force Of
Mr. Higginbottom's remarks, that rot
long ago they called Oh his wife and
begged her to make al effort to save
her unhappy husband by making his
home attractive.
Mrs Higginbottom consented to make
the desired effort, and. IS q first step.
visited her husbands fsvorite concert
saloon under the protection of q disguise
and detective officer. When she had
learned what were the attractions that
most powerfully appealed to Mr. Hig
gin bottoms mind. she proceeded to re
produce them as far as practicable in
bis own house She bad the parior
carpet taken mp and the bare floor
nicely sprinkled with beer and stuinps
of cigars She removed the pictures
from the walls aud hung in their places
cheap and gsudy chromos representing
impossible young women In undesirable
costumes. Two dirty wooden tables
and supply of wooden chairs from the
kitchen completed the furniture of the
room. and it began to assume really
attractive appearance.
Before the hour of her hns'and's re-
turn from his business, Mfs Higgiubot-
tom hired man to play on an accords
on and another ~ torture violin, be-
side three professional drunksrds Of
greet iudecency OF appearance aud con-
duct. and notorious burglar, kindly
furnished for the occasion by the Po
lice Captain of the preciuct.. There
were in the kitchen two Irish girls who
were decidedly ugly. Dnt WHO were
clean, decent. and modest girls These
two she instruct Cd in the art OF serving
beer and spirits. aud dressed them 'in
cost umes that were extremely vulgar.
though they could not be said to be i'm
proper. Having thus arranged all
thinga, she met her husband at the
door and escorted him to the diniI
room. whers he ate his dinner. uncoL-
scious of the Transformation that had
been wrought in his front parlor
After dinner, Mr. Higginbottom lit
his cigar and remarked that he must go
out FOR an hour or two to see his friend
His wife. with sweet smile. told him
that he peed not go out, for she had fl
pally discovered how to make home at
tractive to him. So saying. she showed
him into the parlor aud led him 20 .
seat st one Of the dirty tables. The fid-
dIer aud the ACCORDION player immedi-
atsly struck up; the drunkards. ut q
sign from Mrs Higginbottom began to
swear and wraugls, and the burglar
sided up to Mr.. Higginbottom and in
vited, him 10 take Q drink. The two
Irish girls brought beer and spilled it
ON Mr. Higginbottom table; they call
ed him dear aud asked him to open u
po.tle OF wine, aud Mrs. Higeinbottom.
apolngi ixing for the fact that :hey were
undeniably decent girls, assured her
husband that nevertheless she was con-
fident that she had fually learned how
TO make home attractive; that she
hoped to spend many jolly evenings
with him, and would like O hot whis-
key without any fdrther delay.
Mr.. Hisginbottom was at frst COM
pletely dazed. but in afew moments he
recovered his reason. He osdsred the
girls to go into the kitchen and stay
there. sud he pitched the dfnnkArds
out of the front do'T AID ordered the
musicians and the Lurglsr TO follow
them. Then he informed bis wife that
be bad been an idiot Of the sesy Iarg-
est kind. and that il she would restore
the pSrlor 70 It's former condition he
would stay at home and make 20 fur
ther complsint of the want of nttrac
tiveness.
Mre Higginbottom's plan cannot
very we'll be followed by other women.
but il was certainly brilliant success
Mr. Higginbottom has ceased 70 spend
his evenings away from hons. and he
he's informed his temperance friends
that the real reason why he formerly
frsquented diersputable places Was ths
fact thst he wasa fool and q sccuudrei
The temperance people are. OF course
clad that lie has reformed. but they
stiil maintain that men become disso-
lutte and drunken solely because thei'