The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
UNAPPRECIATED.
MT. White Finally Convinced of His
 Wife's Importance.

'I don't think" said MT. White, ''that hay crop ever promised so finely"
 ''IndeedI' said his wife absently.
 sAnd if there isn't any fall in the price of fruit" he said, tour peach orchard is going to net us cool hun dred dollars
 As he spoke he flung the homespun towel, with which he had been wiping his hands, over the back of the chair.
 ''Oh, George, do hang up the towel, " said Mrs. White, ''the nail is just as near as the chair-back, and l have enough steps to take in the course of the day without waiting on you"
 .'You are always grumbling about something" said the young farmer, as he jerked the towel to its nail. ''Therei Does that suit you?"
 Here is letter from Cousin Dora, George" said Mrs. White, wisely avoiding the mooted question. "She wants to come here and board for 8 few weeks"
 ''Well, let her come," said White. ''It won't cost us a great deal, and a little extra money always counts up at the years end"
 s'But George, 1 was thinking"
 s'About what?"
 "Why, am so hurried with the work, and there is so much to do-"
 ''That is the perpetual burden of your song" said MT. White, irritabIy. '.Women do beat all for complaining.
 Wont you hear me out?" said Mrs. White. ''So thought it would be a good plan to give Dora her board if she would help me with the home work little. It would accommodate her, and it will accommodate me-"
 ''But it won't accommodate mel" said MT. White, cavalierly. Really, Lefty, you are getting absolutely lazy"
 Mrs. White crimsoned.
 ''No one ever said that to me be- fore," said she.
 But just look at it," said the farm CT. Tell me of any other woman in the neighborhood who keeps a girl! Why, they make boast of doing their own work"
 "They all have sisters, or mothers, or grown-up daughters; have none."
 sPshawr' said White. Ridiculous! Of course you have to work. We all do, don't we? But your work don't amount to a row of pins, I don't know of any woman who has it easier than you do."
 That is all you know about it!'' said Lefty, in a choked voice.
 Write to Dora that we'll board her for five dollars week." said White, authoritatively. ''We must earn all the money we can while there is a chance. Make the hay while the sun shines, eh? And I guess you'll do as well as other women do, Lefty. Now run up stairs to the garret, dear, and get me my blue jean overalls, that's a good girlr'
 Lefty obeyed, but the tears were in her eyes, and big round ball was ris- ing up in her throat, and she could hardly see the jean Overalls, as they hung up high on the end of the beams.
 As she reached up loose board in the garret floor tripped her; her foot slipped through on the laths and plaster below, and, with groan, she sank to the floor.
 The time passed on, and George White grew tired of waiting.
 He shouted up the stairway:
 Look alive there, Lefty! Do you mean to be all day?"
 But no answer came. He ran up stairs to find Lefty lying on the floor, with one leg broken just above the ankle.
 'Now you'll have to get some one to do the work" said Lefty, not without spice of malice, as she lay on the calico-covered settee, with her ankle duly set and bandaged.
 Mot if I know it," said George White. Hire lazy woman who'll want dollar and half week and her board into the bargain to do the work of this house? 1 guess not!'
 But what are you going to doP" asked Lefty.
 ''To do it myself, to be sure. Half an hour every morning, and half an hour every evening ought to be enough to square up accounts.
 ''Well," said Mrs. White, 'I shall like to see you do it.
 ''Then you'll have your wish," said her husband.
 He rose early next morning and lighted the kitchen fire.