Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-12
A WEES ECONOMY.

A WYE EN EOUNUM1 l. MT. and Mrs. Blossom were new stars of a | fine brilliancy but of small magnitude in the society of Warrensburg. Alexander Blossom and Minnie Blossom had been married for l one short year, which time seemed to them | just one long summers day. There are sev- | eral married people unlike Alexander and Minnie, for these were never happy except when they were together, and when they | were together never unhappy for moment. | When Alexander came in from business he | always instituted a search for the brown haired, brown eyed girl who was waiting for | him, and when he began to despair she would start out of certain passageway | with a gay laugh and ask him where his | eyes were. Of course, under these ctrcum- | stances, it was necessary for her to take a good, square look at his eyes to determine if they were the same as ever, and then occurred some of those manifestations which foolich people call foolishness. and which only stopped when the genial house | maid came to announce that dinner was served Of course, the housemaid did not say, "Dinner is served;" her proclamation verbatim was, Come, now;" but the mean | ing was the same. Ihave omitted to say that | Minnie was not very tall; that she was re- markedly healthy and deliciously plump Her | lips were near bursting with fullness as cherries after rain; her forehead was low, | and her eyebrows, heavier than the ordinary, | made her just so much the more magnetic. l There nothing wonderful about Alexan- | der You will comprehend Alexander at once when I say that he received $1OO a | month, which be did not earn. However, he | firmly believed that in some mysterious way &r>h | ployers.
 With S1OO month the Blossoms had to live Fortunately, they had no rent to pay; the market books, under Minnie's care, fig ured up reasonably, and the domestic was kind enough to demand but S15 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 where his eyes were, put a raptur- ous kiss just below his camel's hair mustache, and cried, What do you think" | The sagacious husband implanted rap turous kiss just below where Minnie would have had a splendid brown mustache had she | been in that line, and replied that he didn't | know. He also demanded advice as to what 1 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 mysterious letter | opened by loving wife, would have experi- enced a feeling of vague unrest. Not so | Alexander. He silently weighed the merits | of some nasty falsehoods and inquired bravely | what the letter was.
 | "An invitation to join the Warrensburg CS thinking of it all the afternoon" So she had, in her womanly way; she had been l thinking what dresses she could wear "Isn't | 1t nicef' she cried. "Now, say we can go" "Of course we can go."
 The unguardedness of this answer was | essentially masculine. Women, on the con- trary, always begin by refusing, and after ward allow themselves to be argued into any | thing whatever. ''Then you must get dress suit, D said Mrs. | Blossom.
 These were, indeed, strange words. They conveyed the revolting idea that the fashion l able Alexander had nothing in dress more formal than cutaways or Prince Alberts. How, then, had he been marrieda The ex- plantation throws light on a very dark pas sage in MT. Blossoms Lne--his dress suit had been pawned; and worse, the time of redemp- | tion had expired.
 'I can't go," he said, resigning himself to l Fate with large F.
 ''That's it," cried Minnie, delighted; "Tve been figuring it all up, and you can go." | Here she ran into the next room, and in one second returned with a sheet of legal cap bearing very illegal looking figures. "Now, look at this"
 Alexander looked, and have to record that he was not shocked. The figures and 1 their method were about as nearly like those | of an ordained bookkeeper as MT. Blossoms | own.
 We've got to be economical for two | months, you see,n said Minnie ''There 1t is, all on paper"
 | The indisputable document ran thus:
 "Grocer, $50; Jane, S15; butcher, S15: coal, $S; everything else, $10; altogether, $TS-$7S out of s10O leaves $22-say SEQ; two months, $40"
 "One of these suits doesn't cost more than that, does itP' she asked, confidently. 'Costs S75," replied the gloomy Alexander sHumphr' cried Minnie. Cant you man. agea If 1t were S75 dress, $40 would be plenty"
 Alexander shook his head.
 "But the club meets early in tho evening, r persisted Minnie. Couldn't you get one that
 would do-ready made, or something3"
 
 she did not speak in earnest.
 'tDearr cried Minnie in despair, "what can we dot We can't take boarders, and you can't be a book agent. I wish somebody would leave us some money"
 ''So do l." murmured Alec with feeling.
 "I know what," cried Minnie, with sudden brightness.
 "Don't you ask your father for money" said MT. Blossom, sternly.
 al don't intend to.n
 Alexander seemed to think she might have been little more willful on this point. But he tried to look much relieved, and issued another command that she was not to go in Hebt. Her assent to this was immediate. Alexander had no more to say.
 The next day Minnie, in pursuance of her idea, went by stealth to the clothing em- porfum of Warrensburg and demanded the
 price of dress suits. The answer was $75.
 She then asked the price of the cloth This was great surprise to the tailor. He affected to solve an intricate problem, and l Azz ksOnl