The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-22

MR.. JOHN POPPED INTO THE DINING ROOM.
station. But John. the train catcher
was not at his place. The servant rang
the breakfast bell twice after we had
commenced las we had to bv Johns"
explicit orders and regulations) and
my sister thrice left the table and
called upstairs that it was late. Final
~ one of the children was sent to see
if papa was awake and to mention the
time and came back reporting that
papa was just getting out of bed
Then commenced in the room above
q commotion that startled me. though
none of the others paid attention to it.
Bare feet l heard running across the
floor first to one place then to another
then a mans voice shot through the
hall wanting to know where his clean
shirt was and his collar and his neck
tie and the Lord knows what else.
Then slams and bangs of doors and
sounds of drawers being opened and
shut mingled with angry CALCULATIONS
and more rushing about.
into the dining room popped Mr.. John
fastening his necktie on his unbuttoned
collar and trying to pull his cuffs over
his wrists.
He glanced at the clock and-''Why
didn't you call me before? Don't you
know it's after train time" etc. etc,
he savagely asked.
Without waiting for a reply and nei.
ther expecting any, he jumped to the
<n11 half cot niS xhaiys S(.sx,a
me my coffee quick! Where's the bis
cult? Pass me something only got
five mi nutes," he spluttered and then
began ranming things in his overloaded
mouth, boiling them till he choked,
and finished by scalding himself well
with the hot coffee which pleased me
immensely.
His breakfast (?) took four minutes
by the clock.
Then up he jumped with: Where's
my hat?-who took my coat? Find my
umbrella" When they were handed to
him by different members of the upset
family out he bounded-as if fred from
q cannon-nevers saying good by" and
off he rushed to join the rest of the
train chasers.
1t was an hour before the household
was restored to peace and quietness
again.
| I'm glad / am not married. would
soon be made crazy by such goings on.
think man ought to have more
sense than to make himself and his
family dyspeptic and nervous just by
being too lazy to get up in proper time.
II. c. Dodge, in Goodall's Sun.
Mime. Blanc, whose pen name il
TIL. Benton, is considered one of the
best critics and translators of American
literature in France. She translates
but part OF work. page or a chapter
here and there, with critical comment
on what she considers untranslata BILE
under which characterization comes sc
much of the American slang used in
our fiction. Countess Dillon, bette,
known as marian Darcy" has also
done much toward making many OF
our writer's known in France. her first
great success being the translation o.
Katharine Green's "Leavenwortl
Case"
/ DO you love NE, JENNIE Il ucs
"Have you ever loved before?" -
have" Then, darling. be mine. I've
long been looking for a truthful girl
If you had said no and afterwart
found out that you had, it would hav'
undermined my confidence in you.
That's what thought" said Jenni,
softly to herself.-N Y. Press.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, thu
southern novelist, lives in a prett,
home on Spring Hill, the shady ant
picturesque suburb of Mobile. 1t i
many years since she wrote "Beulah.
the novel that made her famous, and i
, | is still her favorite among the 'schil