The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-01
The Discovery Made by Young Husband.

"The most expensive piece of painted
china that | ever purchased taking
size into consideration, was bit that |
presented to my wife yesterday" re-
marked gentleman to a young lady
while standing in the door of the drug
store at the corner of Fourth and Wal
nut the other afternoon, waiting for an
uptown car.
"What delightful husband you
must be-" she murmured. 81 mean to
call on your wife at once and persuade
her to let me see it. Is it placque?m
"Well, not exactly. 1t is very small
scarcely more than half an inch in
diameter"
"Half an inch? Dear mel
Eyes; and paid $40 for it,"
'Was it painted here in the cityp"
80, no; it is an imported piece,
brought over from Paris
The young lady's face-which. by the
way, was an exceedingly handsome one.
with black eyes and red lips looked
puzzled. She took a lace handkerchief
from the alligator skin satchel at her
side and pretended to brush a speck of
dust from her shoulder.
81 cant possibly imagine what it
may be, she said.
81 would like to tell you but really
[ am not at liberty to do 500
''Will your wife let me see?"
"She cannot help doing so, if you see
her."
30, then, it is something to wear-a
setting for brooch, perhaps; but, of
course, if she doesn't chance to be
dressed for seeing company she won t
have it on"
''Ah, but she will, though. No mat
ter in what stage of her toilet YOU find
her. think she will have my present
where it will be the first thing to strike
your eye.
"Do you knowI am going up to your
house right this minute! i want to
know what this mystery is"
But | would advise you not to say
a word about it, even if you don't recog-
nize the article at once. My wife is a
terror when she is angry.p
The young lady's car came bv lust
then, and she had barely time to gather
up her drapery and step aboard, with
out at all satisfying her curiosity in re-
gard to the last statement.
There will be lively time up at my
house in the course of an hour re-
marked the gentleman to the EnQ1tirer.
as the car went by.
"Why so ?''
"Why, that young lady is bound to 90
there, as straight as a die, in order to
satisfy her curiosity about that bit of
china painting. She is Interested in
some wayin the lockwood pottery, and
is confirmed china maniac. just let
her ask my wife about that half-inch
specimen of ceramics that ] bought for
her yesterday, and there will be music
in the air.
'Does not your wife like to show her
treasures p''
'Why, my dear boy, it is glass eye.
You see, when l married my wife
about six years ago, | knew her eve
sight was defective on one side; but |
thought that the useless eye was Just as
handsome as the good one. That is
where made my mistake. Shewore a
glass eye then, over a horribly diSfgured
eyeball. That eye has lost its color
and | was compelled yesterday to buy
her new one. Her friends are in the
same box that | was in before marriage
showed me my mistake. They imagine
that she has two handsome eyes, with
out the slightest idea that one is false. .
''When our young lady begins her in
vestigations my wife will see at once
that her secret is in danger, and she
will be fairly wild. came away this
morning without any breakfast, because
there was no breakfast ready for me,
and that is why let the cat out of the
bag. = Cincinnati Enquirer.