Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-03-24
o. Wilhelmina, Come Back.

Personal-Will the young woman who ed
tied the gravy depart ncnt nnd corrected
proof at our PIE foam Try for two day, and
then jumped on the evening that we were to
have our Clergyman t. dine with us, please
come back, or write to 3? Pari Row, saying
where she left the crackers and cheese.
Come back, Wilhelmina writes Bill
Nye, in the New York World, md
be our little sunbeam once more.
Come back and cluster around our
hearth,tone at so much per cluster.
If you think best we will quit hav-
ing comrany at the house, especia 'ly
people who do not belong to your set.
We will also strive. O, so hard, to
make it pleasanter for yoa in every
way. If we had known four or five
years ago that children were offensive
to you, it would have been different.
But it is too late now. All we can 40
Is to shut them up in barn and feed
them through a knot hole. If they
shrek loud enough to give pain to
your throbbing brow, let 10 one know,
and we will overcome any false sent;-
ment we may feel towards them, and
send them to the Tombs.
Since you went away we can see how
wicked and selfish we were, and how
little we considered your comfort. We
miss vour glad smile, als) your Ten
nessee marb!e-cake and your slat-pie.
We have learned valuable lesson
since you went away, and it is that the
blame should not have rested on one
alone. 1t should have been divided
e iually. leaving me to bear half of it
and my wife the other half.
Where VIC erred was in divid ng up
the blame on the has s of tenderloin
steak or peach-cobbler, compelling you
to bear half of it yourself. That will
not work, Wilhelmina. Blame and
preserves do not divide on the same
bass. We are not now in favor what
may be called sliding scale. We think
you will like this better.
We also male grave mistake in the
matter of nights out. While young l
formed the wicked and pernicious habit
OF having nights olt myself. painted
for the night air, and would go a long
distance and stay out a long time to get
enough of it for mess. and then
bring it home in a paper bag, but |
can see now that it is time for me to re-
main indoors, and give Young people
like yourself chance, Wilhelmina.
so if | can do anything evenings
while yon are out that will assist you,
such as stoning rai~ins or ne:ghboring
windows, command me. | am no cook,
of course, but | can peel apples or
grind coffee, OF hold YOUR head for
you when you need sympathy. | could
also soon learn to do tie plain cook
ing, think, and friends who come to
see IT'S after this have agreed to bring
their dinners.
There is no reason why harmony
should not be restored among us and
the old sunlight come back to our roof
tree.
Another tn ng I wish to write before
| close this humliating personal |
wish to take back my harsh and bitter
words about your singing. l said that
you sang like a shinglc mill, but | was
mad when | said it, and | wronged you..
was maddened by hunger, and you
tod me that mush and milk was the
proper thing for a hrainworker, and
you refused to give me any dope on
my dumping. Goaded to madness by
this, | said that you sang like
single mill, but it was not my better
nature that spoke. 1t was my grosser
and more gastric nature that asserted
itself, and | now desire to take it
back. You do not sing like a shingle-
mill at least SO nuch as to mislead
pract.c ed ear.
Your voice las more volume, and
when your upper register is closed is
meliower than any shingle-mtll l ever
heard.
Come back, Wilhe,mna. We need
you every hour.
After you went away we tried to set
the bread as we had seen you do it,
but it was not success. The next day
it came off the nest with litter of
small, sallow rolls which would easily
resist the action of acids.
If you cannot come back, will you
please write and tell me how you are
getting along, and how you contrive
to insert a;r-holes into homemade
bread.