The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-06

| line, ne called lt-aH night TO get gOod
places, for 1 told him since we muSt 90,
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. l 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 L?
| 0, yes. l said since We were bound to
! attend, needed a new bonnet anyway,
and such a 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 Uery difficult man to please.
| 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 quiet turn in dress. l
ElaOoO ! ought to dress livelier to make
amends, but CAN'T bring myself 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
l a., ..-o-Jc
times. You will smile when tell you
his excuse. He says l talk enough for
! both. Well, we went shopping. We
were out about two hours and a half.
All that time 1 was looking for one
! color, just to please Josiah, when he
said to me:
/" Isn't there some place we can 60
| to and finish this business up?
"'Yes.' says l, Josiah, we are sure
to find that color at Mot & Mot's'
".Why in the name of all the saints,
then, didn't you 60 to Mot & Mot's in
the first place, instead of trundling
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-I wanted narrow band to
face my bonnet, instead of a full-depth
facing-I told the clerk to cut me OF 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 | 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 a spool
| of thread and ordering it sent home,
but I'm blest if ever dreamed woman
| would hunt all over creation for a bon
net the way you do. At the rate you
are getting the stuff for awhOle bonnet,
an entire generation might be swept off
the globe before you complete it. The
Cathedral at Cologne is not a circum-
stance to it. }"
That's the way with Josiah when l
try to practice economy" Mrs. Ap-
pleby began to look grave. A slight
frown, that l suspect she knew added
piquancy to her expression, rested on
her face, as she continued, in a 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 lust 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.
GSlAn hoH RI hrac,oS
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. | 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 nv 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 unaccommodating
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 y week, or two at most.
She intended it for a present for her
sister-in-law, for Christmas. She be-
gan it on Thanksgiving Day, and her
Sister-in-law wouldn't have got it the
next Christmas if some of us hadn't
helped her. o, the slowneSs of some
people, how it tries me-" Mrs. Ap-
pleby tapped the floor with her right
foot, rocked herself and shook her
head gently as though she was contem-
plating an audience of slowgers, and pre-
pared to 90 any length within the limits
of gentle expostulatiOn.
''She staid for lunch and hurried
away to catch the noon train, and
niiSScd that. When she came back the
second time she was in a very bad hu-
NOR. 1t gave her headache and she
laid down, and if it hadn't been for
our ResSie-I sent her with her i don't
think she woald have caught the four
O'Clock train"
Here Mrs. Appleby burst into peal
of laughter that was infectious. We
all laughed. Mrs. Appleby makes
everybody laugh.
"Where was 1 then? o, yesl was
talking about getting ready in time.
After the dresses were made-before
they were completed thought would
try to understand what the music was