The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-07-09

lime, and you sit porch and talk to half dozen
men at once, any Of whom would lie great catch
or half the girls of your acquaintance. Aud then
he life itself Ncu see SO much VI the country, are
m horseback continually, and the changes around
must I've lovely. And In this fair dcluson this wise
young woman lives and dies.
But nh me- " she bc foolish; " she listens too
earnestly to- the airy nothlugs whispered between the
bars of the waltz " day She looks ny ut him with
what he would call "a most fetching expression -
and sccms absorbed In his account of military gar
lson then hc loses his head and proposes; she hers
and acCcpts--what?
The wedding is the event of the season. tho grooms-
all nice fellows OF his class regiment with
that show from behind; the presents are
lovely; George Is devoted and so handsome, every
body says, and all promises fair.
When they reach his station she feels the FIRST
SCOusness that all Is not what her fancy painted H.
She slips her hand into his as they enter what Is to
rc their home and gives 1t gentle pressure, but she
does not express her first Of surprise mt the
rough white washed walls, with the plaster knocked
off In great patches. She mentally wonders what IN
the world she viii do with her curtain poles, and
ventures TO suggest to George that she would rather
have house like Mrs. B's. Mrs. II. Ia the wife of
the commanding officer, and for the first time Is cS-
plauc TO her the ncyertu he- overlooked difference
between Il second lieutenant and major forever.
She tries to understand, and thinks 1t right because
George says So and goes into tho nean little house.
intending tn mako tho best OF II. with the aid Of
her Eastern ideas and tue pretty things with which
her friends have supplied her she makes 1t tasteful
and attractive and takes innocent pleasure IN her
pretty rooms, little dreaming that every hit of color
that adds to the general effectiveness, each bracket
upon the glarnG wall, is Just much TO bo used
against her In the future, Just many crimes IN the
eyes of the women She has yet TO know, and who win
be quick to recognize aud resent, hut never ac-
knowledge the contrast to their own bare and barn
Hike barracks.
The Major 5 wife assumes command OF her vt once,
aud dictates Just which room sue shalt make her
parlor what servant She may he able to get with
careful management, aud upon whom she shalt call.
The Majors wife Is good-naurel woman, old
enough To he her mother and she promptly copies
her way Of wearing her hair and burrows licr new
pickle Cnstors FOR her next dinner party She mildly
says to George that she does wish Mrs. u. would not
order all about her house. aud George answers "Oh,
must keep In with the B's. only yesterday old
II. said something about making me post ndiuant.'
So Mrs. H., with all her meddesomc ways, must he
concatcd. When she hears that her ncighbor on the
right is the wife Of first lieutenant, almost like
George, - she looks forward to meeting her and finding
associate who is Cnngenial. She hears Mrs. S ap-
proach, her coming heraded by a loud laugh as she
'okes'' George upon his changed estate. 'And that
what you We been up TO- Is IL? said to my husband
long ago, I'm bet that boy be thinking of marrying
soOn.' - Mrs =. is the daughter of II very worthy
old sergeant and the wife Of another: she
Therefore demanded all the dcfcreuco due to her
present rank ag tic wife of one of the senior Ersts
In the regiment She has a arge and eycr-Incr, asInr
family of Young PATRIOTS and never is seen without
detachment of them. This she considers most dcscrv
ing thing and speaks with great contempt of people
who have - small, miserable families" ON these
ground, she claims, aud usually gets, her captains
allowance of uuarters while that unhappy man takes
refuge with the bachelors IN the most remote corner
Of the garrison She now makes her appcarance with
her Youngest .'at carry and numbers three and
Cour cIInrIup 10 her skirts she shakes hands In
military manner and Instantly commences n long
and yirorous account of all the vronrs undergone y
her John. Her two children. meantime. engage In
n lively Jlsnut. AZ to who has the prior claim to
vase they have dragged from It's shelf while thei,
mntber comnIacentIy Ionks on The moor UttIe
vom,n yho has so c,reCIlv p,c. it terc cxnscts IA
see II I'm Cr,gments They have framed with muddy
bonts uver ber r,,rot and thov have s,,,ned , c,l,
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