Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
FROM a BRIDES DIARY.

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The Useleasness % Milo Lessoas n .
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George said last week that we must
economic. 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 I
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 a low 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 it was
useless to yoarn.
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 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? threw myself on the bed and
wept till the pillow-shams were sight
to behold.
1 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 a 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 ut the barber shop.
/ can now see that if l had put il
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
tremulo in them, but the button
holes that 1 make, George says, look
like the eye of dead hog. think
parents are apt to make 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 l began to sing at school and
people could discover what tuneit was,
my parents began to squander money
on my alleged voice. 1 always knew
l couldn't sing, but here l am with a
trunkful of sheet music, no piano and
a 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 recitc ''Curfew shall not ring to-
night" and can not throw any hope
into a low spirited hunk of bread.
l see it all now, oh SO plainly, and so
does George, fear / can understand
how he feels exactly. He may be
rich man some day, if he don't die of
dyspepsia before he amasses fortune,
and all that time L must practice on
some one Poor George!
Yesterday l bought little red re-
ceipt book of a pleasing young man
who called at the door. His eyes were
so deep and dark, and his voice so
pleading, that would have purchased
the book if 1 had had to borrow the
money. The book is very useful one.
and is bound in the same color as my
new dog.
1t tells how to make custards. blanc
manages and floating island. 1t also
tells you in the back part how to cure
heaves, CHAMBERS and bolts. can
hardly wait till George gets the bolts
so that can bring out my little red
volume and win him back to life and
JOY again. 1t also gives away other in
Any one with this book in
the house can 60 to work and take a
person through long siege OF Group
or yellow fever without doctor, and
there is whole lot of law in it, SO
that George won't have to have a
lawyer or doctor, and we can save a
great deal that way. Why will people
ritter away their money on doctors
and lawyers when they can get one of
these books so cheap?
Yesterday our landlady gave me a
sllp of oleander, and have planted it |
in cute little pitcher in the window.
where it is slowly growing as l write.