St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-12


Mrs. Sourbeck's aunt died they did not
ro 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
90 TO the funeral And do you know.
if Eve heard it once I've heard it SAID a
| hundred times it was so odt the Sour
becks didn't 90 to the May Musical
| Festival. told Josiah ii would never
| do to let that impression get out about
rts. And to make sure, l made him pur-
chase season tickets for two, early. lie
had to pay man to stay np-'ln the
line,' he called it-all night TO get good
| places, for told him since we must go,
/ was determined people should sec us,
and to be SIRE and get the front seats in
the middle of the gallery. He has no
more idea of economy, Josiah, than
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 a front seat. | soon convinced him
that was not nv way of looking at 1t,
and when he said he had to pay the man
for standing in line all night ten dol
|
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 saving g-where was L?
O, yes | said since we were bound to
attend, I needed new bonnet anyway,
and swch a time as we had picking that
bonnet. I 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 rery difficult man to please
| often tell him it's lucky for him he
got patient, pains king. economical
wife or he'd be in the poor-house. Aud
he is of such a quiet turn in dress. !
kao,c | ought to dress liyelier to make
amends, but can't bring myself to it,
and plump Mrs. Appleby rocked until
her bonnet looked a rainbow under the
; gaslght "He is quiet every way.
That man will sit whole evening when
r we 90 out, and not say six words some
times. You will smile when tell you
his excuse He says talk enough fol
r both. Well, we went shopping. We
J. were out about two hours and half
All that time | was looking for one
S color, Just to please Josiah. when NJ
r said to me:
".Isn't there some place we can g
IS to and finish this business up?'
eyes saws /, Josiah, we are sur'
to find that color at Mot L Mot's.
!, ".Why in the name of all the saints
then, didn't you 60 to Mot 4 Mot's il
It the first place, instead of trundling :
e fellow around like wheel-barroV
through dozen stores9
l. "When we went to Mot & Mot's, an'
found the color wanted to match m,
b ribbon-I wanted narrow band t.
, face nv bonnet, instead of a full-deptl
i, facing 1 told the clerk to cut me oil
|: narrow piece of the silk as wide a
y that" Mrs. Appleby held up tw
;, plump, taper fingers. ''ioa shoul'
have seen Josiah stare at me as pai'
e. the ten cents for it and put the silk il
IL nv pocket book l didn't want then
to put that on the book.
ID ".Wen,' saws Josiah, I've heard O
women going shopping, buying a spoo
a of thread and ordering it sent home
but I'm blest if ever dreamed woma
y would hunt all over creation for bon
y. net the way you do. At the rate yo
are getting the stutffor whole bonnet
an entire generation might be swept 0
the globe before You complete it. Th
Cathedral at Cologne is not circun
stance to it
That's the way with Josiah when
10 trv to practice economy" Mrs. Al
pieby began to look grave. A sligf
Y frown, that suspect she knew adde
piquancy to her expression, rested 0
n her face, rs she continued, in Yer
serious tone: 'sIf ever ANYTHING got
wrong with Josiah he will think of tn
q, times have tried to save him dollar
:" But men do take such peculiar notion
into their heads. Josiah wanted
rs argue with me that instead of savin
II, money by buving the material and ha'
inc my bonnet made justto suit mysel
o. it cost me great deal more, to sa
lg nothing of the time and shoe leather W
wore out hunting the material.
y" 1--WE had to get new dresses anywa,
l told him, so he said he would let |
work out our own salvation. He ha
" all the trouble he wanted with ii
tickets and silk for the facing of ii
bonnet. We did manage to get alor
to without him. We got the new dress
ne made in good time. Ifthere's anythir
I've a dread of, it is being behind tim
H. There is Miss Anglesea, now. l new,
r. knew her to make the train she starts
d. for. If I've seen Miss Anglesea mi
Ill one train. Eve seen her miss hundre
OF One dav she left my house at eight
nd the morning to catch the eight tiftee
IN and missed it. And she get up {
at special purpose at half past five o'clot
= to make that train. She came bac
m and said of all the unaccommodatir
OF things in the world nothing could
he compared with an accommodate
H. train. So she took out her croch
b. work. there being no help for it. ~
e- waited for the noon train. Talkil
n. about crocheting, that minds me Mi
ut Anglesea was upwards of nine mont
it making one tidy that anybody ell
dy could make i'm a week, or two at mo:
by She intended it for a present for h
he sister-in- law, for Christmas. She b
he gan it on Thanksgiving Day. and h
1T sister in-law wouldn't have got it 4
ed next Christmas if some of us hadr
to helped her o. the slowness of sol
in people, how it tries me-" Mrs. a
lie, ple5y tapped the floor with her rig
81 foot. rocked herself and shook h
head gently as though she was conte'
plating an audience of slcwgers, and pl
to pared to 90 any length within the linn
at of gentle expostulation.
1 '.She s,aid for lunch and hurri
Mt away to catch the noon train. a
ter missed that. When she came back I
We second time she WAS in n very bad Ii
i NOR. 1t gave her headache and $
m laid down, and if it hadn't been
Ter our Res sie-I sent her with her-I dol