Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-19
EPISODE w." LOVE WILL FIND ITS
WAY"

EPISODE w." LOVE WILL FIND ITS
Way"
"Mr. and Mrs. Cottle's Chemically
Prepared English Mullins" were very
popular. "Mr. and Mrs. Cottle's
acknowledgement Sponge Cake :"
was the children's favorite sweet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cottle's Chemically
Prepared Macaroni i" had an enormous
sale.
They had been married three years,
and were looked upon as benefactors of
their age. They found it exceedingly
profitable to be benefactors. They were
growing rich, and their home was as
comfortable as science could make it..
But science was not enough.
Cottle was sitting by the window Of
his laboratory refreshing his mind by
reading DR.. Lindley Kemp's "Phases
of Matter" Ilypatia entered the room
on tiptoe, stole up behind him. and
placed her hands over his eyes.
Hypatia," he exclaimed impatient
", " how many times have told you
not to do that when | am reading?
| should think a woman Of your brains
would know better than to be so silly"
II am sorry, Alfred, she said, PEN
itcntly.
well, what do you want? Have
you any new idea?"
mo, / can't say that have, Alfred
But / haven't seen you since breakfast
time, and | am afraid you'll overwork
yourself, and
"Why, Hypatia, what nonsense you
are talking. Overwork myself. Do
you suppose rational man like me is
going to be so foolish as that? ?"
She was silent and gazed upon the
floor.
"What do you want, anyhow, Hy-
patia?"
But Hypatia did not know. She had
been brought up on strictly scientific
principles, and had been taught to alb
hor poetry, art, beauty, and emotion.
She had been loved once by this man !;
but then he was poet, and she had
despised him. Now she was his wife,
and he was a great chemist. She
loved him with a love that would have
frightened her had she been able
to measure its intensity. He
was her king. Poor Hypatia! 1t did
seem hard that after twenty years Of
life in a rule-of-three community she
should turn out to be only a woman.
But time found her a balm she had not
looked lor, and Hypatia learned that a
mans heart was sometimes to be touch
ed in strange ways.
Well, den, was its mammals it too
bit o. darling; and did apin tick? Was
it bad old pin? Well, it dess was,
den. Goo, goo, goo, goo!"
Cottle looked up from his book with
a troubled glance.
Always mumbling over the baby
now" he thought; "no time for any
thing but the baby"
"Well, den, mamma dess whip dat
bad old pin. Dere dere dere Now
dat pin dess mighty sorry it tick
poor ittoo bit o. baby. Now, danoee-
dancee. DUN tiddy um tum, tiddy-
iddy UNI! Dunn tiddy um, tiddy-
wildly tum ~
"For goodness sake, Hypat;a,
exclaimed Cottle, losing all patience,
:" do stop singing that COMPOUNDED nom
sense"
why, Alfred, it's to amuse the
baby !"
"Well, it doesn't amuse me. You
never think about me any more-it's
all baby, baby, baby the whole blessed
time"
And Cottle paced up and down the
room angrily. Hypatia studied his
face intently for a moment. Then she
rose from her seat, summoned the
nurse, and sent the baby screaming
from the room.
"Oh, you needn't have sent your
ittoo darling away on my account"
snapped Cottle.
And then he paused in his walk in
utter amazement, for Hypatia had burst
into fit of laughter that seemed almost
bysterical.
"Now, what's the matter 2" asked
Cottle.
Hypatia went up to him and laid her
hands upon his shoulders.
Alfred" she said, Pm very hap
py."
Why?"
Because you are jealous of the
baby"
Rubbish !" he exclaimed, turning
away.
But she caught him by the arm, and
gently pushing him into . big chair, sat
down upon his knee and laid her fair
head upon his shoulder.
- am very happy" she murmured.
He was silent for moment, and then
he asked, with puzzled air ::
"Why?"
She put her arms about his neck and
drew his head down so that he could
see the marvellous light in her ewes, and