The evening world., 1891-07-11
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In Search of a Monument.

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retired place be began with
I've been thinking all along that I'd
/ order monument about thirty feet high,
/ with an angel ON top, hut ] dunno. It's
for my wife, YOU kpo%! Lost her two
years ago. Awful r .od wife, but $500 Is
heap 20 pay for a monument"
Yes"
"Pve been told that marble angels are
going out of style. You are knocking
around all the time; what's your ldea;"
Il see more or less of 'em. but that's a
matter of tabte."
"A feller nin't obliged 10 git one to
show that he loved his wife ?"
"Oh, no"
wall. guess I'll leave the angel of.
I've leen thinking all along I'd get n
monument at least thirty feet high, but |
dunno. Thirty feet's purity high,
isn't it?"
Yes, pretty high"
NO particular fashion about it, |
'spose? ?"
None whatever.
1.-THE tai est one in our burying- ground
8 only twenty fl e feet and | thought I'd
beat it. but I've sort o changed my mind
since lea 1lng home. Every extra foo'
costs like Sam Hill. and some of the
neighLors might say was Just putting 1t
all on to make show. Ever lose any OF
your wivas?"
mo"
" It's a sad thing Everybody said I'd
GO insane over it, and l expect had
close soueak Curious how much a man
can live through"
is. indeed"
There are monuments twenty feet
high, presume ?"
" Oh yes"
A husband wants to do the right
thing, you know, but it isn't them ms
make the greatest show that feel the
worst. One of the tallest monuments
put up in our burying ground was bought
by man who was playing baseball n
week after his wife died. | haven't even
pitched a game of quoits in two years
That shows the difference. don't itr'
80 1t certainly does"
which looked real rich and stylish You've
been around good deal and have prob
ably seen the same thing. Didn't it strike
you that the husband WAS grIeviug just as
much US if he had bought taller one 2"
That was the impression l always
had"
Couldn't no person say he was stingy
and mean, could they'"
II should think not"
wall, | dunno. / never was no hand
to over 10 things. I'm not ono of them
kind to paint the barn red and the doors
white and the cornice yaller to make peo-
pie think panorama il going on inside.
You've seen monuments ten foot high, |
s'pose :"
Yes"
"Did they look rich and solid and as if
the husband was real sorry 2"
Yea"
"You didn't Say to yourself that you'd
bet two to one the husband was looking
for second wite?"
mo"
" Well, I've sorter thought 10 feet was
purity fair monument but / wanted to
talk with some one about it. Folks in n
country town ore always full of gossip,
you know, aud didn't want to set their
tongues u going. Ten feet is about up to
that time table, isn't it 2"
just about"
wall, | dunno. want to do the fair
thing, but don't want any one to think
I'm plling it on for effect. II | should
get married again it might lead 10 talk,
ell ?"
1T possibly might"
That's what | was thinking of. You
are knocking around burying- grounds a
good deal, amt you"
Yes, quite a good deal"
And, of courGe, you see more or less
ombstoues just common tombstUnes
which cost about SS0?"
"Yeh.
mo lamb OF top, or anything of that
kind ?"
, No"
Just rich and solid with scroll
NOuhu lue OuCIeu 10 lue Me IOIS
OF -"
"lea."
when you have noticed such stont
as thnt did it ever ctr Ike you that the hus
l. md was close fsted and penurlousy'
No
Didn't say TO yourself that his grie
= WAS all put on?'
l "No."
Thought Jusi as much of him as il h,
had put up a monument fifty feet higl
with two angels On it?"
Yes"
d Wall, that settles it. I'll strike some
thing for about $25 or $50 and git year
;, time on it if / can, aud II folks talk
. can't help II. everybody who knows N
knows that almoat went cray an,
o ,r!ed to jump into the well and you coul
g tell w2s prieyiug II hadn't Eaid wo,,
l. TO you. couldn't yuuE"
h " l think YOU look very sorrow ~" "
e That settles Il. / grieve right her
in M he .rt--I put mp SO ;olnbSlon
siInply 20 mark the gave. All IL o. X
and I'm thousand rIues oLleeged an
VIII now so ont ind find shop. II
happens to be q dull ;ime and / can be,