The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-07
FROM 4 BRIDES DIARY.
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Struggle with . Low-Spirited Hunk 81
Bread.


Struggle with . Low-spirited Hunk 81
Bread.
George said last week that we must
economizc, for trade seemed to be par
alyzed. 1t is funny that trade should
have waited till we got married and
then got paralyzed. But we must do
all we can, George says, to save our
moneys. l am trying every way to
save what he makes. For three days l
have been making my husband pair
of the cutest night shirts that anybody
ever saw. They are long and graceful
and trimmed with pink embroidery.
George put one of them on last night
and we had our first harsh word.
At first he laughed allow bitter laugh.
such AS we sometimes hear on the stage
when the villain sticks large red stab
knife into a casual acquaintance.
did not think that my own George
would ever curdle my young blood
with such low, gurgling laugh. For
few moments ] yearned for my
mothers bosom to moan on, but 1t was
useless to yearn.
George said that anybody with brains
enough to soil silk handkerchief ought
to know that the buttons should be OH
the right hand side, and that three
pockets in q night shirt was all moon
shine.
Then he buckled shawl-strap
around himself and pretended to be
Sitting Bull, but would not laugh at
him. 1t was the first time that ! had
ever refused to laugh at any thing
George expected me to laugh at. Can
he ever forgive? o, can he ever for
gives 1 threw myself on the bed and
wept till the pillow-shams were sight
to behold.
l also made mistake in putting in
the sleeves, SO that they pointed back
into the dim past. George said that
he felt all the time as if he had been
turned around in cyclone. and that
while he was struggling to peer into
tho future his arms were striving to
lay hold on the dear, dead past.
He can be quite eloquent when he
feels like it, and his employer says he
is the most brilliant conversationalist
they have at the barber shop.
l can now sec that if had put in
more time at home learning to sew
and cook, and less time on my voice,
it would have been better for George
Papa spent good deal OF money
teaching me to 60 up and down the
scale, and how to sing sad pieces with
| - 4.o.,,,,lo q, <hor, hat tho hutton
holes that l make, George says, look
like the eve of dead hog. l think
parents are apt to make a mistake in
the estimate they place on their chill.
dren. For instance, papa never would
sing any thing but "Me Poor Nellie
Gray" and if mamma could sing any
thing she did it under an assumed
name, for 7 never heard her. Well,
when / began to sing at school and
people could discover what tuneit was,
my parents began to squander money
on my alleged voice. l always knew
couldn't sing, but here l am with e
trunkful of sheet music, no piano and
n faculty for making pie that would
lead man to the gallOws.
also know how to elocute some. but
that does not keep us now. What
does poor man want of a wife who
can recite "Curfew shall not ring to-
night" and can not throw any hope
into a low spirited hunk of bread.
see it all now, oh so plainly, and SC
does George, fear. can understand
how he feels exactly. He may be q
rich man some day, If he don't die OF
dyspepsia before he amasses a fortune,
and all that time | must practice or
some one. Poor George!
Yesterday l bought little red re-
ceipt book of pleasing young man
who called at the door. His eyes were
/. so deep and dark, and his voice sc
, pleading, that would have purchased
! the book if l had had to borrow thu
, money. The book is a very useful one
and is bound in the same color as my
new dog.
It tells how to make custards, blanc
manages and floating island. 1t also
tells you in the back part how to cur
heaves, CHAMBERS and bolts. / car
hardly wait till George gets the bott
so that can bring out my little ret
volume and win him back to life ant
Joy again. 1t also gives away other in
t formation. Any one with this book il
the house can 60 to work and take ,
I person through long siege of GROUP
or yellow fever without a doctor, ant
there is whole lot of law in it, 8,
, that George won't have to have
lawyer or a doctor, and we can save {
great deal that way. Why will peopl
fritter away their money on doctor
, and lawyers when they can get one o
these books so cheap
Yesterday our landlady gave me
, slip of olcander, and have planted
in cute little pitcher in the window
4 where it is slowly growing as write
, 1t hardly seems possible that some da,
, it will be large tree with little yellow
knobs on it. lean fancy George now
as he will look ten or fifteen year
from now, with bald place on tn
/ back of his head and lifting and surg
ing on that oleander till he is blacl
: in the face and his eyes start iron
3 their sockets. Will it not be a Joyful
I time?
| fancy stand at the head of tn
0 cellar stairs and make suggestion
! about where to set it. while Georg
rests one edge of it on his person an
means.
With a good oleander in our home,
feel that we may gradually accumulat
quite little property. If George will
only put the same amount of zeal an
industry into our home life, and try t
economize, we will some day be very