Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1881-10-22
RAYVILLE LOUISIANA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3D. 1881

| county falr, ana mas got chcSt run ~
liren and bedquilts nj home"
Bnt she did not express herself thus
plainly to Carlos, when he asked her,
wistfully, if she knew why Iladdie had
gone away.
81 think she's sick of farms and fLrh-
work." said Sarcll;,, puraing mp her lips.
81 think, Carlos, she's like the little
portulaccas in the garden outside. that
only blossom when the sun Shines"
And Carlos was more wretched than
ever, fancying that he had darkcnod his
Young wife's life, and dragged her down
into poverty with him.
"She will come back to me when she
chooses" he said, sadly. "I sLall not
go after her."
And he grew paler, colder and more
silent as he went about the duties of the
farm; and Sarella, to use her own ex-
precision, "hew around as lively as
cricket" and put things into the neaVest
Of order.
"Wc're better off without Harriet
than with her, it's my opinion" said
she to herself. "a china doll of a WON.
an, only fit to be waited on and made
much Of do think Carlos WAS crazy
when he married her"
AT the months end, however. IIatl'lie
came back. and huttered down thr lilac
shaded garden walk to meet her hls-
land, Ike bird, as he returned from
his days work.
"Oh, Carlos Carlos :" she cried 81
am so glad to be here again -
Little one,' he asked, almost re-
proachfully, "why did you leave me?"
81 have been at school, said Idle,
ralianty. 81 have been learning-my
profession. Oh . Carlos, you can never
tell how awkward and helpless felt
here, in my own house, knowing that l
was as ignorant rs n cl.ild of all the
things / needed most to comprehend.
love you-oli, So dcarl v-and felt so
unworthy of you-so unable to help You
in Your sore need as wife should help
her husband. Sarella dcspis"d my :g
Gorance-tle very servants looked down
oh me as helplcs, doll and they were
right. But they shall never do 80 any
more. for I've learned to De- 4 house
Keeper at last-Aunt Doccas has taE$ht
me everything. | can make butter like
gold, and cheese that even Sar,iia Will
not criticise. shall prepare you some
strawberry shortcake tomorrow, aud my
bread and biscuits are as light and As
white as swahdown AMI I've made you
a shirt, Carlos, all hy myself, and Aunt
Dorcas saws needn't be ashamed If it;
and I can wash and iron, and clear
starch as well as even old Chloe did
, when was a girl at home.
"Hatldie Haddie y he cried. "Why
did you do this ,"
"For love of you," she answered,
!, simply: "tO he to you what wife
, should be to her husband. You needn't
, think am going to settle down into
: common drudge, Carlos. like
Shakespeare and the Kensington stitch
? as well as ever. But farmers wife
should not be blind and helpless at the
9 head of her own household, and l am
y thankful that / have learned to do all
these things"
"You are an angel, Haddie !" he said,
earnestly.
d 81 am only your true, loving little
n wife," she answered, hiding her face on
his breast.
II Sarella needed to stay at the Beach
farm no longer; Betsey Baker was dis
|, missed, and Haddie took her place al
It the helm, and of all happy, efficient
stirring farmers wives Mrs. Winstanley
n bore away the palm.
: Il never supposed there was so mucl
l. in her," said Sarella. "Carlos cOuldn'
have made a better choice if he bat
T. tried for year.
y at does beat all. said Betsey Baker