The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-03-08

sort of an excuse. Even the Sourbecks
had it all arranged to attend the Fes-
| tival the year before. / know, because
our Jane had anew dress made by the
dressmaker that made three new
dresses for the Sourbecks, but because
Mrs. Sourbeck's aunt died they did not
90 after all. 1t was about week be-
fore the Festival. but as the aunt was
some poor creatures wife, never
heard of her till she died-they did not
go to the funeral. And do you know,
if I've heard it once I've heard it said
hundred times it was so 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
u.s. And to make sure, | made him pur-
chase season tickets for two, early. He
| had to pay man to stay up-'in the
line, he called tall night to get good
places, for told him since we must gs,
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 out
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 the man
for standing in line all night ten dol
| lars, do you know what | answered. /
asked him if he wouldn' t sooner do that
than pay a doctor twenty or thirty dol
lars maybe, and have the lumbago be-
side.
"Well, as | was saying where was | J?
O, yes. said since we were bound to
attend, needed new bonnet anyway,
and such q time as we had picking that
bonnet. | 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 Cery difficult man to please.
l often tell him it's lucky for him he
got patient, pains-taking, economical
wife or he'd be in the poor-house. And
! he is of such.a quiet turn in dress.
knoW | ought to dress livelier to make
amends, but can't bringmyself to it, -"
and plump Mrs. Appleby rocked until
her bonnet looked a rainbow under the
gaslight. "He is quiet every way.
That man will sit whole evening when
we 90 out, and not say six words some
times. You will smile when | tell you
his excuse. He says | talk enough for
both. Well, we went shopping. We
were out about two hours and q 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 90
to and finish this business up?'
eyes, says |, Josiah, we are sure
to find that color at Mot & Mot's.'
why in the name Of all the saints,
then, didn't you go to Mot & Mot's in
fellow around like a wheel-barrow
through dozen stores?'
"When we went to Mot & Mot's, and
found the color wanted to match my
ribbon-l wanted narrow band to
face my bonnet, instead of full-depth
facing-I told the clerk to cut me off a
narrow piece of the silk as wide as
that. " Mrs. Appleby held up two
plump, taper fingers. "You should
have seen Josiah stare at me as l paid
the ten cents for it and put the silk in
my pocket book l 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 /
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
argue with me that instead of saving
money by buying the material and hav-
ing my bonnet made iustt to suit myself,
it cost me a great deal more, to say
nothing of the time and shoe leather we
wore out hunting the material.
1--WE had to get new dresses anyway,
l 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. l never
knew her to make the train she started
for. If I've seen Miss Anglesea 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 it. 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 accommodating
things in the world nothing could be
compared with an accommodation
train. So she took out her crochet
work, there being no help for it, and
waited for the noon train. Talking
about crocheting, that minds me Miss
Anglesea was upwards of nine months
making one tidy that anybody else
could make in week, or two at most.
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