Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-08-05
FROM A BRIDES DIARY.
The Uselessness of Music Lessons In q
Struggle with q Low-Spirited Hunk OF
Bread.

George said last week that we must
economic, for trade seemed to be par
alyzed. 1t is funny that trade should
have waited till wa 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
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 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 it was
useless to yearn.
George said that anybody with brains
enough to soil silk handkerchief ought
to know that the buttons should be on
the right hand side, and that three
pockets in a night shirt was all moon
shine.
Then he buckled a shawl-strap
around himself and pretended to be
Sitting Bull, but l 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
give? l threw myself on the bed and
wept till the pillow-shams were sight
to behold.
also made a 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
the 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 see 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 go up and down the
scale, and how to sing sad pieces with
a tremulo in them, but the button
holes that make, George says, look
like the eve of a dead hog. | 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 never heard her. Well,
when | began to sing at school and
people could discover what tune it was,
my parents began to squander money
on my alleged voice. l always knew
| couldn't sing, but here | am with a
trunkful of sheet music, no piano and
faculty for making pie that would
lead man to the gallows.
also know how to elocute some, bul
that does not keep us now. What
does poor man want of 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 {
rich man some day, if he don't die o.
dyspepsia before he amasses fortune
and all that time | must practice or
some one. Poor George!
Yesterday / bought little red re
ceipt book of pleasing young mar
who called at the door. His eyes wer,
so deep and dark, and his voice Sc
pleading, that l would have purchased
the book if had had to borrow tn,
money. The book is very useful one
and is bound in the same color as m,
new dog.
1t tells how to make custards, blan,
manges and floating island. 1t ais,
tells you in the back part how to cur
heaves, CHAMBERS and bolts. l cal
hardly wait till George gets the bolt
so that | can bring out my little re-
volume and win him back to life an,
JOY again. 1t also gives away other in
formation. Any one with this book il
the house can go to work and take
person through long siege of crou
or yellow fever without doctor, an
there is whole lot of law in it, S
that George won't have to have
lawyer or 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 @
these books so cheap
Yesterday our landlady gave me
slip of oleander, and have planted
in cute little pitcher in the window
where it is slowly growing as | write
1t hardly seems possible that some da
it will be large tree with little yello'
knobs on it. l can fancy George now
as he will look ten or fifteen year
from now, with bald place on til
back of his head and lifting and SURG
| ing on that oleander till he is blac
in the face and his eyes start frol
, their sockets Will it not be ioyfl
time?
: fancy stand at the head of Il
cellar stairs and make suggestion
} about where to set it, while Geore
J rests one edge of it on his person an
s means.
With good oleander in our home.
feel that we may gradually accumpla
{ quite little property. If George wi
e only put the same amount of zeal al
e industry into our home life, and try
. economic. we will some day be yer
0 very comfortable.
8 All we need now is home and son
0 furniture. for l have already seeur,
! the oleander.
a | bought some rhubarb at the DIR,
, store this morning and tomorrow
6 will make a couple of pies. George
psssionately fond of rhubarb pies.
There would be far less connubi
nnhappiness il wives would study tn,
a husbands wants, and supply them
y think.-BiH Nye. IN Boston Globe.