Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

- lie IL come DaCk 10 me before he
really goes" she whispered to herself.
starting up and going toward the door;
but turn in the street hid him from
sight when she reached the window. He
had gone, and for the first time without
kissing her goodbye.
"Well, we've been married long
enough to be done with such nonsense, "
she said at last, by way of consolation;
yet there was terrible ache ut her heart,
and she secretly wished she could throw
herself into her husbands arms and tell
him how sorry she was for it all.
She sat quite still until Freddy awoke;
then with cry of terror she ran across
the hall to the nearest neighbor, with
"Please come, Mrs. Wilson; my baby's
dying"
Mrs. Wilson came, for though rough
of manner, she was kind of heart"
"Hes in fit,'' she said. the moment
her eyes rested on the little sufferer.
"Bring me some water, quick!" she
called, "and help to get off his clothes. -
Stella Obeyed.
Hold him SO, was her command,
putting him into the bath. 81 will run
home and get some medicine. Such
women as you amt fit for mothers" she
continued, returning with her hands full
of bottles.
ooh, Freddy" cried Stella, dropping
on her knees, if you'll only get well,
will try so hard to bear everything.
"And what trials have you to bear ?''
asked Mrs. Wilson. "1ou have pretty
home," looking about the room, if it was
put in order
cit isn't like the house I'm used to. u
"Young people don't expect TO begin
where the old ones left off. They must
make their own homes"
CT never understood it So Sister
Bell is the only mother [ ever knew, and
her advice was never to marry a poor
man."
$50 you keep finding fault and com
planning when your husband is trying in
every possible way to make an honest
living. 1t is wonder that you haven't
driven him to drink long ago"
But my husband is good man" re-
piled Stella, warmly, resenting the last
part of the speech.
"He has shown himself TO be good
man."
The woman said it III good faith, wrap
ping Freddy in soft hannels, and admin
istering q quieting potion. She had been
watching the movements of this couple
ever since they came to live in the house.
"My baby will get well, won't he 2"
was said pleadingly, aud the poor thing
sobbed again as if her heart would break.
eyes, indeed T.
"And you stay with me through the
night ?" forgetting she was one of those
people"
I'D stay with you whole blessed
week" replied true-hearted Mrs. Wilson,
:" if [ could make you II wife worthy of
your husband"
"Tell me what I shall do and I'll do it
faithfully and willingly, and without
complaining"
All through the long night hours,
while Freddy lay between life and death,
Mrs. Wilson worked over him bravely,
and told to the girl-mother chapters of
her own Gfe-experience. There were
passages over which Stella wept bitterly,
and when morning dawned, giving back
the child from danger, in place of the
tickle, unreasonable woman, there was
one ready to meet life's work with firm
purpose and strong heart.
She tidied up each apartment, and in
stead of going about In dowdy wrapper,
put on q fresh dress, arranged her hair
becomingly, and changed the quicker
about her mouth for her own rosy lips
You're pretty little thing" Mrs.
Wilson told her, when she had fastened
q knot of blue ribbon in her blonde hair.
"See after baby now. I'll look in
every now and then through the day,
and tonight will come back to you.
You're husband will be here tomorrow
?"
yes" replied Stella, with bright
look in her eyes. "He will be here by
ten o'clock"
After all it was long time to wait, she
thought. She was so impatient to tell
him--and she would kiss him as many
times as he wished.
"Yes, indeed" she exclaimed joyfully,
bending over Freddy's crib, "we'll kiss
papa a hundred thousand times, won't
We, dear ?"
60 do wish Clarence would come, she
kept saying next morning. "What de-
tains him % she continued, when the
clock was on the stroke of II.
"What if" and her heart was Ike
lead in her bosom as sherecalled the look
she last saw on his face. ''What if he
never comes back" she murmured, 60
ing into her own room.
.'Mrs. Wilson, she called, s',where is
my husband ?''
In an instant the dear, good soul was
beside her, resting a hand teaderly on
the aching head.
True-hearted woman! She shrank
from saying it had been dreadful night
on the Sound, and that steamer had
collided with the New York boat. "Her
husband travels by boat" had been her
"a .si4.
Stella caught at her arm, the sound of
her voice answering Freddy, and, with
the cry she fell. ma
Poor, tired, inexperienced wife and
mother! Was the ordeal so ordered?
With the help of neighbor Mrs. Wilson
laid her on the bed.
"Run for the DOCTOR" she said to Miss