News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
THEY BEGAN HOUSEKEEPING.
With n Little story of the Mess that was
Made on the Start.



Mr.. Youugmau, of st. Anthony Hill,
married vers pretty and sweet httIe
lady a few days ago, and he furnished
| house to establish her In as soon as the
nuptuals were completed. He was con-
graduating himself on having bought
everything that would be needed in the
proper running of we'll organized
| household, and was not a little surprised
on the second morning after his we'd
| ding by his wife handing him card on
! which was written a list of articles
which she requested him to bring home
when he came from work. The list ran
as follows:
Stove polish.
Hard soap.
| Oatmeal
Curtain fixtures.
| Picture hooks and cord.
Coal sieve.
Rolling pin.
Dust pan.
Broom
Stove brush
| Paper eight-ounCe tacks.
Mr.. Youngman reads over the list and
! tries TO remember that he bought all of
these things when he furnished the
house, bu the can't.
Hadn't you better go down with me
and order them yourself, darling - he
says.
mo, no, DEAR" she replies. 'You
can get them well enough, "
''But might not get just what you
want, he suggests.
"Oh, you goose, she says, smiingly
throwing her arms round his neck and
dropping a kiss on his lips, ''you know
I'd be satisfied with anything you buy
me "
~ wouldn't be single again for any
thing" unused Mr.. Youngman, as he
/ tripped lightly down stairs.
That noon Mr. Youngman brought
home the desired articles and land them
OIL the table. Mrs. Youngman looked
over the articles and said
"Oh, Will, what did you get this
kind of stove polish for 1t isn't half
So good as the other, and this soap,
why, my mother never would have that
brand OF soap IN the house. How much'd
you pay for this oatmeal =
twenty-five cents"
Twenty cents Why, you can
get splendid oatmeal at Schwabs for tif-
teen cents package.
Those curtain fixtures are an inch
too wide for the windows. | wonder
you didn't know that.
ooh, you got green picture cord,
didn't you Well, | won't use 1t.
always want red picture cord.
THAT coal sieve is too coarse. It'll
let half the good coal go through it.
Why didn't you think of that
That rolling pm is altogether too
heavy. wanted light one.
Il was In hopes that you'd get
bronze dust pan, instead of this yellow
one.
''That broom is too heavy. A lighter
one would have done just as well, and
it wouldn't have cost SO much.
''The bristles in that stove brush are
too stiff. wanted softer one.
"Oh, Will, why didn't you get gal
vanized tacks; hose iron ones rust out
so quick. They amt good at all
Mr.. Youngman waits until his young
wife gets through, and, wondering what
has brought such change over her since
morning puts her arms around her and
says:
what is the matter with my little
wife ?''
Her dainty head falls on his shoulder,
and between the sobs that shake her
slight frame, she says:
"Wi-WiIl, | fe-feel so b-a-ad. l
wanted to, to make some bi-bi- biscuit
this noon, "a and got the wa. wa-water
and sa a-alt and ye-ye-yeast, but there's
{, omething mi-mi-missing and l can't
think whO-wha-what If is -
Mr.. Youngman smiled quietly, and
clasping his young wife to his watch,
pocket, he placed his lips to her ear and
whispered, "Flour."