The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-09
A WIFE'S ECONOMY.


Warrensburg. Alexander Blossom
and Minnie Blossom had been mar
ried for one short year, which time
seemed to them just one long sum
mers day. There are several mar
ried people unlike Alexander and
Minnie, for these were never happy
except when they were together, and
when they were together, never un-
happy for a moment. When Alex
ander came in from business he al
ways instituted a good search for
the brown-haired, brown-eyed girl
who was waiting for him, and when
he began to despair she would start
out CT IL certain passageway with
gay laugh, and ask him where his
eyes were. OF course, under these
circumstances, it was necessary for
her to take II good, square look at
his eyes to determine if they were
the same as ever, and then occurred
some of those manifestations which
foolish people call foolishness, and
which only stopped when the gen
ial housemaid came to announce
that dinner was served. OF course,
the housemaid did not say, "Dinner
is served )" her proclamation YER
batim was, "Come, now," but the
meaning was the same. l have
omitted to say that Minnie was not
very tall, that she was remarkably
healthy and deliciously plump. Her
lips were as near bursting with full
ness as cherries after rain; her
forehead was low, and her eyebrows
heavier than the ordinary, made her
just so much more magnetic. There
was nothing wonderful about Alex
ander. You will comprehend Alex
der at once when | say that he re-
ceived a salary of 500 month,
which he did not earn. However,
he firmly believed that in some
mysterious way his labor brought
large returns to his employers.
With 500 month the Blossoms
had to live. Fortunately, they had
no rent to pay, the market pooks,
under Minnie's care, figured up rea-
sonably, and the domestic was kind
enough to demand but SIS per
month.
One day Alexander came home
from his alleged business, looking
nice and sweet, and also looking for
Minnie. The latter rushed out from
the unexpected place in which she
always hid, caught him around the
neck, asked him were his eyes were,
put a rapturous kiss just below his
large, handsome moustache and
cried
"What do you think ?"
The sagacious husband implanted
kiss and replied that he didn't
know. He also demanded advice
as to what it was appropriate to
think. Minnie then explained that
letter had come addressed to him
that it looked like wedding cards
that she had-had opened it, and
that it wasn't wedding cards after
all.
Some men, hearing of Il myster-
ious letter opened by a loving wife,
would have experienced a feeling of
vague unrest. Not so with Alexan-
der He silently weighed the merits
of some hasty falsehoods and in
quired bravely what the letter was.
"An invitation to join the War
rensburg Social Club" said Minnie,
"and | have been thinking of it all
the afternoon" So she had, in her
womanly way she had been think
ing what dresses she could wear.
"Isn't it nice ?" she cried. "Now,
say we can CO."
"Of course we can CO.
The unguardedness of this answer
was essentially masculine. Women,
on the contrary, always begin by re-
fusing, and afterward allow them
selves to be argued into anthing
whatever.
"Then you must get dress suit
said Mrs. Blossoms.
These were, indeed, strange words.
They conveyed the revolving idea
that the fashionable Alexander had
nothing in dress more formal than
cutaways or Prince Albert. How,
then, had he been married? The
explanation throws light on a very
dark passage in Mr.. Blossoms life
his dress suit had been pawned,
and, worse, the time of redemption
had expired.
81 can't co. he said, resigning
himself to Fate with a large f.
"That's it,'' cried Minnie, delight
ed; "I've been figuring it all up,
and you can 60" Here she ran
into the next room and in one