Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-26

ing. "Don't think too much of your own dignity; 1t Is an uncomfortable thing to maintain, and you are just as we'll with out it. Father really means well. What us and lax with Roy? You wo ,.ldn't have matters reversed would your"
 "1 shan't mind 1t any more, Jimmie" |" Gladys ran to the window to listen to Roys pleading with his father. '.No, don't want it reversed, but 1t does rile my little soul-I suppose you think it little to be snapped up upon odd corners when don't know he is in the neighbor- hood. After this, when feel like laugh ing will cast my eye round to see if it is admissible"
 (Which means you do care2"
 "Ever so little bit, but grow more patient" She sat down on a stool at her husbands feet and looked up into his face. (Which takes the most grit, Jim mic, to hold your tongue or answer back?"
 'sThat is according to-to-' "The environments" Gladys had been reading Herbert Spencer. But I mean if you are not afraid to answer back" .'It Is more courageous, as we'll as un- selfish, to hold your tongue" Jimmie bent down and kissed his wife. II know you are not afraid of anything, but 1t would ease my mind if you would prom ise not to answer my father in his unrea- Sonable moods. Roy should have been reprimanded this morning, and I think you really need not have laughed until you left the room."
 II held in for full two minutes; didn't you see was perfectly helpless2' ''Don'G do it again, dear."
 "No, won't" Glayds replied dutifully, as became a wife: and she made a re- solve to count a hundred before allowing herself to look upon the laughing part of future happenings.
 But the worst was still to come. The Norwood geology class met at the parsonage, MT. Hedgepeth and family being enthusiastic members. MT. Hedge peth was given the chair for this particu- lar evening, and began to deliver lec- ture upon hydrogen. These lectures were informal, any ono having the privi- i lege of asking questions. Are there any of our common rocks that the blow-pipe will not melt?" Mrs. Doctor Green inquired.
 She never once opened her text-bo ok, and knew nothing except what she did not deter her from asking number less questions.
 "The hydrogen flame of the blow pipe," began Mir. Hedgepsth, evidently annoyed at the interruption, ''is hot. " ! He stopped, and seemed to be casting about for a word. Its hotter than he looked up and down at the class seated upon either side of the long din- ing table-"hotter than" . Every one present, except perhaps Mrs. Green, knew that but one place had the credit of being hotter than hydrogen flame, and that a minister is not allowed to mention it secularly. Her father-in- laws perplexity was too much for Gladys. She put her head down on the table and shook with merriment. The class united in burst of laughter, and Brother Hedgepeth laughed also. "You must excuse us, Brother Hedge peth," said little Mrs. Thornton, wiping her eyes. 'It was too comical; besides, it was Gladys fault"
 "One who lives in the house with Gladys will learn to excuse anything MT. Hedgepeth replied pleasantly. | This was the last time Gladys laughed in the wrong place. She tried her best to remember her father-in-law's wishes, and if she sometimes failed ill behaving as soberly as she supposed he wished her to behave, he took no disagreeable measures to let her know it.-Waverley Magazine.