Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-31

A~r, II. Will uuNClCl0n9 tn "AHn l
my ob.ection. She arrived tho ~ n aanae
sefhe e, Rosie and l were sitting to.
n,lau, ol fact') when we heard mamma
ran > CAP stop at the door, n VIC
~ ~ u nto the hall to welcome her.
r;ns sie was, smiling and shak1no her
.ttslets as playfully as ever, while the
t"1o was bringing IN three trunks.
wv p~andboxes. and q huge brown ma.
Per parcel. My heart sank within me.
oas was aroused by being deputed to
Iay me cabman, for which pu;x,ose the
ueaf creature handed me eighteen
pence. Cabby demanded half a crown.
anu alter violent alteration, which
lnaa9 me very hot and uncomfortable.
aha brought out two cooks and a house.
A''u tfom adjoining houses to see the
1un | compounded with him for two
s nau;ng which was his proper fare,
paying the extra sixpence out of
Ivy own pocket. l got inside
yuss III Tine to see the servants
hnoGH out two of the balusters with
the biggest OF the boxes. 1 implored
s ns1 10 DC more careful, and they ac-
eofuingly avoided the balusters, and
,nencefortn confined themselves to
AhocKing holes in the wall and tearing
]aggged pieces out of the paper as far
rs the second floor. With this keen
tlon, nothing particularly distressing
occurred that evening, but the very
next morn ng mamma-in-law made her
appearance at breakfast (rather late)
IN a flannel dressing gown and curl pa
pers. Now, if there is anything [ hate
more than q flannel dressing gown. it
is curl papers; and if there Is ANYTHING
! hate o than curl papers, it is q
flannel dressing gown. II make nv
sell quite at home. my dears, you see,"
was her first greeting, shaking her curl
papers as she was wont to do her curls,
though by no means with the same cf-
feet. l thought she did, confound her,
but l swallowed my annoyance and
v,entured to hope She slept we'll. No,
II she must tell the truth, (Which she
needn't have done on my account. I'm
sure,) not very we'll. She never did
like those new-fangled spring mat
tresses. Nothing like her old-fashioned
teather-bed at home for her. (The re-
tort was obvious, but, of course, Id;dn't
make it.. And then again, she couldn't
help thinking that the sheets were not
quite aired, and there was certainly q
draught from the left-hand window. |
promised that all these little matters
should be seen to, and asked if l might
help her to an egg OF rasher of bacon.
"Ihank you, no; I'm really afraid
eggs make me bilious, and bacon al
ways disagrees with me; but if you
happen to have such a thing as a bloater
in the house now" Of course we
didn't happen to have such a thing in
the house, but 1 promised
that our establishment should be
kept permanently provided with bloat-
ers for the future, and the dear woman
kindly accepted three pork sausages as
q temporary substitute. Il may men
ton incidentally that l ordered a quar-
ter of q hundred of real Yarmouth for
her the very same day. She ate two
of them, and then discovered that
bloaters made her so ~dreadfully thirsty.
No other member Of our household
cared for them, and the remaining
twenty-three, after giving Il sort of sea
air to the establishment for a fortnight.
were ultimately given to the milkman.)
AA0 AAoo oAAluS dAtcA DlcdhAdSI tue
dear creature said sweetly: "Now,
Rosie, my love, give me your keys and
I'll set your store cupboard to rights for
you. don't intend yon to be bothered
with any housekeeping during the week
or two [ am with YOU" Mark tie deli
cate cresccndo-she only said one
week at first, but now it had got to a
week or two. My poor little wife
looked rather crestfallen, for she en-
joyed the discharge of her new duties
as mistress, but the habit of obedience
was still strong, and she was about to
hand over the insignia OF authority
when [ came TO the rescue. mo, no.,
mamma! that won't do. Rosie makes
u capital little housekeeper, and l want
her to have as much practice as posi-
bic. She must hustle about more than
eve during the short time that you are
here q thought that was rather neatly
put) SO that she may have the fail
benefit OF YOU experience" Rosie
gave me q grateful look, and pocketed
the keys again. while Mrs. D. tried to
look as if she didn't mind in the least.
and wagged her cull papers more play
fully than ever.
l started on my daily round. to look
in at the hospital and call on my few
patients, and did not return until din
ner time. My little wife came out to
meet me in the hall with by no means
her usual smiling face; indeed, it
struck me that her eyes were q little
red. I did not make any remark
until we were left alone. Then I
inquired the cause. The poor little
woman tried hard to maintain her COM
posure, but it was not until q ter she
had had a good cry on my shoulder
that 1 extracted from her, by degrees,
that mamma had been ''gojng ON at
her so, telling her that she did pretty
nearly everything wrong, that she felt
quite discouraged and miserable. 1
comforted her as best l could. The
dinner, for the first time since our
marriage, was a failure; and Mrs. D..
did not improve matters by rcmarking,
in her sweetest manner, that she feared
all along it would be 50. Ii dear Rosie
had only taken her advice, and hadn't
done this. and had been a leetle more
particular about something else,
all would have been as it should be.
Of course, I took my wife's part, and
testified with some warmth that up to
+ho+ dow tho had ALWAYS been