The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-03


tival. Everybody that Is anybody goe:
to the Festivals, unless they have some
sort of an excuse. Even the Sourbecks
bad it all arrsngcd to attend the Fes.
tival the year before. know, because
our Jane had new dress made by the
dressmaker that made three new
dresses for the Sourbecks, but because
Mrs. Sourbeck's aunt died they did moi
go after all. 1t was about q week be-
fore the Festival, but as the aunt was
some poor creatures wife, never
heard of her till she died they did moi
go to the funeral. And do you know,
if I've heard it once I've heard it said s
hundred times it was 10 odd the Sour.
becks didn't go to the May Musical
Festival. ] told Josiah it would never
do to let that Impression get out about
as. And to make sure made him pur-
chase season tickets for two, early. He
had to pay man to stay up--sin the
line, he called it--Sll night 10 get good
places, for told him since we must 90,
l was determined people should see us,
and to be sure and get the front seats in
the middle of the gallery He has no
more idea OF economy, Josiah, than a
child. He wanted to take his chances
with the rest, and said people saw more
of each other scrouging in and ont
were more likely to be seen than sitting
on front seat. soon convinced him
that was not my way Of looking at it,
and when he said he had to pay tbc man
for standing in line all nighr zen dol
lars, do you know what answered.? /
asked him if he wouldn sooner do that
than pay doctor twenty or thirty dol
lars maybe, and have the lumbago be-
side.
''Well, as was saying where was Il?
o, yes. | said since we were bound TO
attend, l needed new bonnet anyway,
and such time as we had picking that
bonnet. l took josiah with me, be-
cause he always complained that got
too much color in my bonnets. or they
were either too old or too young. JO-
siah is a rcry difficult man to please.
l often tell him it's lucky for him he
got a patient, pains-takiDg, economical
wife or he'd be in the poor-house. And
he is of suchssa qniet turn in dress. j
knosc | ought to dress livelier to make
amends, but Icar't bringmyseh to it,
and plump Mrs. Appleby rocked until
her bonnet looked a rainbow under the
gaslight. ''He - qsiet every way.
That man will sit "a Whole evening when
we 60 out. and not say six words some
times. You will smile wfleN tell you
his excuse. He says talk enough for
both. Well, we went shopping. We
were out about two hours and a half.
All that time was looking for one
color, just to please Josiah, when he
said to me:
Isn't there some place we can go
to and finish this business up?'
eyes. saws /, Josiah, we are sure
to find that color ut Mot & Mot's.'
"'Why in the name of all the saints,
then, didn't you go to Mot 4 Mot's in
the first place, instead of trundling a
fellow around like a wheel-barrow
through dozen storese'
''When we went to Mot & Mot's, and
found the color wanted to match my
ribbonI wanted a narrow band to
face my bonnet, instead of full-depth
facing-I told the clerk to cut me of q
narrow piece of the silk as wide Is
that" Mrs. Appleby held up two
plump, taper fingers. ''You should
have seen Josiah stare at me as paid
the ten cents for it and put the silk in
my pocket-book didn't want them
to put that on the book.
"'Well,' says Josiah, I've heard Of
women going shopping, buying spool
of thread and ordering it sent home,
but I'm blest if / ever dreamed womaN
would hunt all over creation for bon
net the way you do. At the rate you
are getting the stufffor whole bonnet.
an entire generation might be swept of
the globe before you complete it. The
Cathedral at Cologne is not circum-
stance to it. -
THAT'S the way with Josiah when l
try to practice economy" Mrs. APP
pleby began to look grave. A slight
frown, that suspect she knew added
piquancy to her expression, rested on
her face, as she continued, in very
serious tone: 'If ever ANYTHING goes
wrong with Josiah he will think of the
times have tried to save him dollar.
But men do take such peculiar notions
into their heads. Josiah wanted to
"a kuS Vith ikAC tAIob lu>tCuQ Vi SoNluX
money by buying the material and hav-
ing my bonnet made justto suit myself.
it cost me great deal more, to say
nothing Of the time and shoe leather we
wore out hunting the material.
I'VE had to get new dresses anyway,
| told him, SO he said he would let us
work out our own salvation. He had
all the trouble he wanted with the
tickets and silk for the facing of the
bonnet. We did manage to get along
without him. We got the new dresses
made in good time. Ifthere's anything
I've dread of. it is being behind time.
There is Miss Anglesea. now. I never
knew her to make the train she started
for. If I've seen Miss AngIesea miss
one train, I've seen her miss hundred.
One day she left my house at eight in
the morning to catch the eight fifteen,
and missed 1t. And she got up on
special purpose at half past five o'clock
TO make that train. She came back.
and said of all the unaccommodating
things in the world nothing could he