Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-01

"Um!' eroaned Mr.. snlithers s.I'd
i have thoughtit was a dido. Well, where
is the inantel-piece
Down celia, !" replied Mrs. smithers,
/ with the doors"
'Oh!'' groaned Mr.. smithers, how
hard those chairs arel I must walk
about to rest myself a little. Are the
chairs and sofa down cellar too?"
mo, I stored them,.' said Mrs. Smith
ers.
| After that the married pair walked about
| the house and looked at the improve
ments; but Mr. Smithers never smiled.
Don't YOU like 1t, my dear2" asked
Mrs. Smithers, trembli1igly.
VERY nicew said Mr.. Smlthers, in a
soothing tone. = :
"Im sure it must be perfect" said
Mrs. Smithers. "I've acted on Terence
Shocks advice all tha while"
"Eh?'' cried Mr.. Snithers, sharply.
Then he added; Don't get excited, nv
dear. 80 TO bed quietly and take good
rest, and you'll feel better tomorrow"
stI'm sure Pm very well. indeed. Jere-
miah," said Mrs. Smithers.
"Bnt Y on are tired, you know-tired.'
said Mr.. Smither. "Go to bed-there's
dear. I'll send Fanny up with YOU
/ why should the chambermaid 90 up
stairs with me2' cried Mrs. Smithers.
beginning to feel mysteriously terrified.
"She shan't then!'' said Mr.. Smithers.
"No she shan't Kitty"
Then ne himself accompa MED Mrs
Smithers to her apartment; saw that she
retired, tied handkerchief wet with
spirits OF camphor, about her head and
left her to herself. Poor Mrs. Smithers
was afraid te resist, fearing that her hus-
band might be insane enough to be
dangerous. She lay staring into the
darkness, in the egreatest misery of mind,
not knowing what her husband might
take into his head next, Meanwhile
that gentleman had rushed in haste to
the family doctor.
Doctor" he said, sitting down in the
| physician's study, "Pae got terrible
thing. to tell you, When I went away
from home / left my dear little wife as
well as could wish, in as snug home
as woman need to have-but you know
night and find the poor soul quite
out of her mind-allite out of her
little mind, Doctor. She's packed
| Of all the comfortable things, I dom
know who're; had the doors and mant ell
pieces taken down cellar, and hung up
horse-blankets on rods and rings; sent
away the carpets and rubbed I'D the
floors and scattered about a few fuzzy
rugs. She won't have the heater or the
gas; and there's log of wood on some
OF my grandmother's old brass andirons,
and few candles .perched here and
there. And she's taken down the ami-
| " portraits and hung up pictures of
long-legged birds; and she's stuck plates
and bowls and cups and saucers all over
the wall somehow: and the place is full
| OF the queerest spindle-legged things,
chairs that make you say ouch! when
| you sit down on 'em and tables you can't
| get your legs under. The place is like
| charnel- house; but l wouldn't mind
! that if she was all right in her mind.
| Doctor, what do you think of her saying
she did it BY, the advice of some fellow
| or other? don't remember his name.
That's mental delusiop, amt it?
The doctor looked at his friend with
! solemn countenance, but his soul was
full Of fun. He knew very well whatlit-
tie Mrs. Smithers had been doing to her
| house, and why she did it; and he quite
understood the effect it had produced on
her spouse.
,'smither's my dear friend" he said,
solemnly, don't be alarmed tits an
epidemic; half the women in the city
have it. Your wife will recover. Take
my advice; send her into the country
for week, and put your old things back
into the house. You can sell the new
ones at auction very readily. Let Mrs.
s., as have said, visit your mother the
while. When she comes back she'll see
everything all Ill right again, and all will be
| we'll. Don't talk to her about it. There'll
be no relapse"
Eyes, yes" said Mr.. Snithers, ri
| hope you are right. And you'll go over
and see Kitty? I've put her to bed and
tied her head up. You'll go this eye-
ming, doctor?"
At once" said the doctor.
| He went. Poor Mrs. Smithers lay
sobbing in her spindle-legged bed. with
the handkerchief sui about her brows.
| Oh, doctor" she sobbed, eI am so
thankful you've come. jeremiah has
/ returned home in such a strange con-
4 dition. am afraid his mind is affected.
you see. Did he serd for you? There
i was nothing the matter with me until
4 he nearly frightened me to death"
4 ''I've seen your husband ma'am,"
said the doctor. solemnly. He'll be all
4 right in few days. 1t was the shock of
seeing things SO changed about him
that was all Do exactly as he bids you,
/ and everything will be well again"
Mrs. Smithers promised and obeyed,
and went mildly away TO visit Jeremlah'S
| mother in the country on the following
day. As soon as she was gone, the anx-
ious husband packed off all the expen-
| sive purchases to the auction-rooms,
where they created quite furore, and
brought more than they cost, restored
4 his doors and mantel-pieces, hunted up
his old furniture, rehung his gas fixtures
and set his heater to work, and then
went to bring his wife home.
He watched the effect Of her entrance
into her home with anxiety, but all Mrs.
4 Smithers said was:
How comfortable"
81 thought you'd think SO" sighed he,
| wonderfully relieved.
He has never quite understood the
matter yet; but Mrs. Smithers does.
Some Pet Superstitiols.
~ think there are more idle, silly su-
narctifion in the pnnnlar mind On tho