Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-24
YOUNG wTFE,s DIARY.
sCosCfy Music Lessons and the Strng-
Gle with a Hunk Of Bread.


hCosCly Music lessons and the 'Strug-
gle with a Hunk of Bread.
George Hast week that we must econ
Dmfze. for trade seemed TO be paralyzed.
tits funny that trade should have waited
4illwe gotmarried and then get paralyzed.
But we must do all we can, George says,
to save our money. l am trying every
way to save what he makes. For three
DAYS have been making my husband a
pair of the cutest night shirts that any
laody ever saw. They are long and grace
euI. and trimmed with pink embroidery.
hE3eorge 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.
dad not think t5at my own George
would ever curdle my young blood with
such a low, gurgling laugh. For lew
smoments l yearned for nay mothers
bosom to moan on, but it was useless to
yearn.
George said that any one with brains
enough 10 soil silk handkerchief ought
lucknow that the buttons should be on the
fright hand side. and that three pockets in
"a night shirt was ali moonsnine.
Then he buckled shawl strap around
himself and pretended TO be Sitting Bull,
hut would not laugh at him. 1t was the
frst time that | ever had refused to laugh
atanything George expected me to laugh
at. Can he ever forgiven o, can he ever
forgiven | threw myself on the bed and
wept until the pillow shams were sight
TO behold.
also made a mistake in putting in the
sleeve. so that they pointed back into the
dim past. George said that he felt all the
rirno a. IL ba had baaD tl1rppd qrOunG in "A
cyclone, aud that while he was struggling
80 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 conversationaiisJ they have
at the barber shop.
can now see that ii had put in more
time at home in learning to sew and
cook, and less time on my voice, it would
have been better TOR George.
Papa spent a good deal OF money teac h.
ing me 10 20 up and down the scale, and
how TO sing sad pieces with a tremulo in
them, but the button holes make. George
says. look like the eye of a dead hog. l
think parents are apt to make mistake
ia the estimate they place on their chill
ldren. For instance, papa never would
sing anything but "Me Poor Nellie Gray"
land IL mamma could sing anything she did
lit uuder an assumed name, for | never
heard her. Well, when l began to
sing at school. and people could
discover what tune 1t was. my people be-
gan to sqnander money on my alleged
voice. ALWAYS knew l couldn't sing;
but here am with trunk fnll of sheet
music, no piano. and a faculty for making
a pie that would lead man 10 the gal
lows.
+ ! also knew how to elOcute some. but
1t5at does not keep US now. What does a
poor man want Of a wife who can recite
It'Cdtf-w shall not ring to.night,n and
who cannot throw any hope into a low
spirited hunk OF bread? mN
/ see it ali now, Oh! SO plainly, aud 30
does GEORGE, l fear. can understand
fh0w he feels exactly. He may be q rich
man some day, il be don't die of dYsnep-
lsia before ne amasses a fortune, and all
that time must practice on some one.
Poor George.
Yesterday ! bought little red receipt
book from a pleasing young men who
lCaitd at the door, His eyes were 50 deep
and dark. and bis voice 50 pleading. that
i would have purchased the book II | had
had 10 borrow the money. The book is
very useful one. and is bound IN the same
color as my new dog.
1t tells row to make custards, blanc
manages and floating island. 1t also tells
you in the back part how TO cure heayes,
glafders and butts. | can hardly
WAIT TILL GEORGE GETS THE Bolts
80 that l can bring out my little red
iyolnme and win him back to life and Joy
again. Is also gives away other infOrma-
5i0n. ANY one with this book in the house
can 60 70 work and take person right
Through long siege Of Group or yellow
fever without a doctor, and there is a
whole lot OF law in it. so that George
TVnutf have "a haUn a IL vyu pr
ard We can save great deal that way.
Why viii 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 slip
Of Oieander, ard | have planted it in a
cute little ri cher in the window, where il
j. slowly growing as | wue. Ii hardly
seems possible that some day il will be
8arge tree Wi "a little yellow knobs on it.
can fancy George now as he will look
Ten or q teen years from now, with "A bald
place on the back of mis- head and lifting
and surging on that oleander till he is
Black In the face aud his eyes start from
their sockets. VIII tnot be joyful time?
i fancy stand at the head OF the cellar
stairs and make suggestions about where
10 set 1t, while George rests one edge OF it
on his person and means.
With a 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 and try to
economic, we will some day be very
very comfortable.
All we need now is home and some
furniture, for / have already secured the
Dleander.
bought some rhubarb at the drug store
This morning, and tomorrow Twill make
couple OF pies. George is passion ately
fond OF rhubarb pies.
There would be far less cOnnubiaI un-
happiness IL wives would study their hus-
bands wants and supply them. think.
BILL NYE.
DEATH OF HOBART PASHA.