The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-07-04
The Husband and Wife Talk

I wish, said Arp, you would go
and see what Carl and Jessie are do
ing down at the branch Ireckon, and
feet all wet, and they have both got
dreadful colds. | cant keep them a
way from that branch
Didn't YOU play in the branch,
my dear, when you We're a child,
said |? Yes said she mourntully,
But nothing couldn't hurt me
then, we were not raised SO delicate
in those DAYS. You know / used to
ride to the plantation, twelve miles.
and back again in a day and bring
bag Of fruit or the horn Of the sad
die, but the girls couldn't Go it now
They can 90 to a party In buggy
and dance half the night, but that
is all excitement, and they are not
fit for anything the next day. We
didn't have any dances-hardly ey-
er-we went TO country weddings
sometimes. You remember we
went to James Dunlaps' wedding.
when he married Rebecca Sammons.
That was a big frolic-an oid-fash-
ioned frolic. Everybody was there
from all the neighborhood. and there
were more turkeys and roast pig
and cake than | ever saw, and we
played everything you could think
of. Rebecca was mighty pretty then
but poor woman-she had had a
thousand children, too, Just like my
self. and ] reckon she Is faded, too,
and tired But Jim Dunlap hasn't
faded. said |. I see when | 90 to
Atlanta. and he is big and fat and
merry-looks little ike old David
Davis.
oh, YES of course he does, said
Mrs. Arp. The men don't know
ANYTHING about care and anxiety and
| Isleepless nights. Ii is a wonder to
me they die at all But l have
/ helped you all I could, my dear,
said /, and you see its telling on
me. Look ut these silver hairs and
| these wrinkles and crows-teet and
my back hurts ever and anon and
this rainy, bad weather gives me the
rheumatism, but you haven't a gray
hair and hardly a seam on YOU
alabaster forehead. Why, you viii
outlast me and outlive me too, anC
maybe there will be a rich widowel
stepping around here in my shoe:
and YOU will have a fine carriage anC
a pair of beautiful bay horses
and
William, l told YOU to 20 afer
| Carl and Jessie
If Vanderbilt's wife should die
and he could accidentally see you,
said I, after I'm gone, there's Nc
telling
/ Well go along now and find th,
I children, and when YOU come bacl
I'm listen TO your foolishness. Tn
not going to let you die if ! can hell
it. for / don't know what would be
/ come of Us all. Yes, YOU have help
ed me, know, and been grea
comfort and did the best YOU could
. most OF the time-and / might hav,
/ done worse, and YOU must nurse ne
now and pet me for / am gettin.
childish.
And you must pet me, too, said ]
OF course | viii, said she. Am
not always petting you? Now, g.
along after the children, before ",
both get to crying and have a scene
And | wish you would see If th,
buff cochin hens have Matched il
the hen house.
she has been setting about four
. teen weeks, said I, but she is get
, ting old, and these old motheJs ar,
= slow, mighty slow.
= | went after the children. anC
sure enough they were fishing in tn.
j spring branch, and their shoes wer
5 wet and muddy, and dthey were bar
- headed aud | marched them up ten
! derly, and Mrs. Arp set down by tn
} fire and dried their shoes. and go
them some more stockings, and thel
/ opened their little morning school
How patient these old fashioned mo
= theirs work and worry over the littl
: things of domestic life