The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-12-28
A wIFE'S ECONOMY.


Mr.. and Mrs Blossom were new stara OF u
flne brilliancy but Of small magnitude in the
society OF Warrensburg. Alexander Blossom
and Minnie Blossom had been married for
one short year. which time seemed to them
Just one long summers day. There are SOW
erai married people unlike Alexander and
Minute, for these were never happy except
when they were together, and when they
were together never unhappy for a moment
When Alexander came in from business be
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 passagewa$
with gay laugh and ask him where his
eyes were. OF course, under these circunn-
stances, 1t was necessary for her TO take
good, square look at his eyes to determine
II they were the same as ever, and then
occurred some of those manifestations
which foolish 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;n 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-
markably healthy and deliciously plump. Her
+ lips wore as near bursting with fullness as
cherries after rain; her forehead was low,
and her eyebrows, heavier than the ordinary,
made her just 60 much the more magnetic.
There was nothing wonderful about Alexan-
dei You will comprehend Alexander at
once when l say that be received 600 a
month, which he did not earn. However, he
firmly believed that in some mysterious way
his labor brought large returns to his en-
ployers.
| With 500 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 $l5a 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 raptur-
Gus kiss just below his camel's hair mustache,
and cried, what do you thinkf'
Tho sagacious husband implanted rap
furious 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
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 expert
eneed feeling Of vague unrest. Not SO
Alexander. He silently weighed the merits
of some hasty falsGEoods and inquired brayely
what the letter was
\ San invitation to Join the Warrensburg
Social elub,n said Minnie, land have been
thinking of it all the afternoon So she
had, in her womanly way; she had been
thinking what dresses she could wear "Isn't
it nicer she cried. snow, say We can go.n
4 "0f course we can 60"
| The unguardedness of this answer was
essentially masculine Women, on the con-
ltrary, always begin by refusing, and after
ward allow themselves to be argued into any
thing whatever.
"Then you must get dress sui, said Mrs.
Blossom.
These were, indeed, strange words. They
conveyed the revolving idea that the fashion
able Alexander had nothing in dress more
formal than getaways or Prince Alberts.
How, then, had he been marriedl The ex-
sage In Mr. Blossoms life-his dress suit had
! been pawned; and worse, the time of redemp-
tion had expired.
az can't 60" he said, resigning himself to
Fate with large F.
"That's it," cried Minnie, delighted; "Tve
been figuring it all up, and you can gon
: Here she ran into the next room, and in one
second returned with sheet of legal cap
bearing very illegal looking flgures Snow,
I look at thisI"
Alexander looked, and I have TO record
that he was not shocked The figures and
ttheir method were about as nearly like those
0 of an ordained bookkeeper as Mr.. Blossoms
' own.
I "We've got to be economical for two
/, months, you see,n said Minnie. 'fThere It is,
all on paper"
The indisputable document ran thus:
. "Grocer, $50; Jane SIS; butcher, SIS: coal,
les; everything else, $40; altogether, s7S-s78
out of 500 leaves s22-say $40; two months,
S40."
zone Of these suits doesn't cost more than
THAT, does itF' she asked, confidently.
costs cas-, replied the gloomy Alexander.
: "HunphP' cried Minnie "Can't you man.
agea Ii 1t were s7o dress, $40 would be
plenty"
Alexander shook his head.
"But the club meets early in the evening"
persisted Minute. Couldn't you get one that
:. would do--ready made, or somethingp
+ Alexander was panied. He said he trusted
= she did not speak In earnest.
'DearIn cried Minnie In despair, "what can
| we dol We can't take boarders, and you
= can't be a book agent wish somebody
. would leave US some money"
$50 do l." murmured Alec with feeling.
81 know what" cried Minnie, with sudden
brightness.
DON'T you ask your father for money"
said MIR. Blossom, sternly.
!, 81 don't intend tor
Alarandsr raerned tn think ahe might have