The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-07
FROM A BRIDES DIARY.

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 / 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
an d we had our first harsh word
At first he laughed a. low bitter laugh,
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 a low. gurgling laugh. For
a few moments ] yearned for my
mothers bosom to moan on, but il 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 night shirt was all moon
shine.
Then he bucklcd shawl-strap
around himself and pretended to be
Sitting Bull, but | would not laugh at
him. 1t was the first time that | had
ev,r 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 TIL the pill ow-shams were a sight
To behold.
/ also made mistake in putting in
the sleeves, SO that they pointed back
into the dim past. George said that
he felt AL the time as ii lie had been
turned around in cyclone, and that
while he WAS struggling TO peer into
the fHture his arms were striving to
lay hold on the dear, dead past
lie can be quite eloquent when he
feels ike it, and his employer says he
is the most brilliant convcrsauonaiist
they have ut the barber shop.
| can now Sc that if | had put in
more time at home learning to sew
aud cook, and less time on my voice,
it would have been better for George.
Papa spent good deal of money
teaching me 10 60 up ana down the
scale, and how to sing sad pieces with
trcmulo i'll them, but the button
holes that | make, George SAYS, look
like the eye of a dead hog. | think
parents are apt to make mistake in
the estimate they place on their chii-
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 1T school and
people could discover what tune it was,
my parents began to squander money
on my alleged voice. | always knew
| couldn't sing, but here | am with
trunkful of sheet music, no piano and
u faculty for making pie that would
lead a man to the galIows
| 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
l see it all now, oh SO plainly, and so
does George, | fear. | can understand
how he feels exactly. He may be o
rich man some day. if he don't die of
dyspepsia before he am#sscs q fortune,
and all that time | must practice on
some one. Poor George!
Yesterday | bought little red re-
ccipt book OF a pleasing Young mn
who called at the door. Ills eJrs wcrr
SO deep and dark, ana his voice so
pleading, that | would have purchased
the book if | had had to borrow the
money. The book is very useful one,
and is bound in the Same color as my
n w deg.
/. tells how TO make custards, blanc
manages and floating island. 1t also
tells you in the back part how to cure
heavos, Slandcrs and bolts. / can
hardly wait till George gets the bolts
so that | can bring out my little rel
volume and win him back to lie and
Joy again. 1t also gives away otherin-
formation. Any one with this look in
the house can go to work and take a
person through a long siege OF Group
or yellow fever without doctor, and
that George won't have TO have a
Ia" VI VI d ubtioJ, anu VIZ tslll saw d
great deal that way. Why will people
fritter away their money on doctors
and lawyers when they can get one of
these books so cheap?
Yesterday our landlady gave me n
slip of olcander, and | have planted it
In a cute little pitcher in the window,
where it is slowly growing as | write.
1t hardly seems possible that some day
it will be large tree with little yellow
knobs on it. l can fancy George now,
as he will look ten or fifteen years
from now, with bald place on the
back of his head and lifting and surg
ing on that oioanler TIL he is black
in the face ard his ewes start from
their sockets. VIII it not be a joyful
timcp
l fancyI stand at the heal Of lie
cellar stairs and make snggo stions
about where to set it, while George
rests one edge Of it on his person and
means.
With good oleander in our home, /
feel that we may gradually accumulate
quite little property. Ii George viii
only put the same amount of zeal and
industry into our home life, ana try to
economize, we will some day be very,
very comfortable.
All we need now is a home and some
furniture. for | have already secured
the olcantier.
/ bought some rhUbarb ct the drug
store this morning and tomorrow
will make a couple of pies. George is
passionately fond of rhubarb pies
There would be far l,sS connubial
unhappincss if wives would study their
husbands wants, and supply them,
think.-BiH Nye, IN Boston Globe.
"A young man in Sacramento went
Into a saloon. sat down, read paper
q few minutea and fell tn tho 0oAI