South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-01-30
THEINTELLlcENCER
FRIDAY. JANUARY 80, 1881.
A wortins-m mans Wife.

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At Doctor Junius Dale; Doctor Ju-
MUS Dale shook his heal a. u TO say.
lis true, 'tis pity. pity tits tits true.
MY dear fellow. said Barley, the
cage. Mentor ofsthx pair, syou can no
more afford such q wife than you can
shord q steam yacht or an ivory.
mounted billiard table,
There's no OCCASION to tel me that, :
!ournful!ly remarked Doctor Dale.
Il am quite aware OF il already. Ill
was rich I'D marry Mise Clark to-
morrow, always providing she thought
me worthy OF eccep. Gnce; bat 80 I,
am only . struggling young doctor
I'll do my best TO keep away from
her destinations in the futu,e.
"A sensible, decision observed Bart.
ley.
But she is SO pretty yearniugiy
remarked Doctor Dals.
Granted
And sue sings like . nightingale
'She ought to, with all the cultiva-
ton that her voice has received
and she has such a winning way
With her.
What difference does that make 10
your said BARLEY. Haven't you
resolved that hereafter she will be
nothing to your
Yves, but
Stick to your colors then, man /
cried BARLEY, .Clissy Clark is moth.
ing on earth but society belle.
What you want is hopeful, willing.
working bee Of . wife-one who can
aid you With heart and hand to climb
lifs's hill. You saw Miss Clark at
the Winfield masquerade last night,
ia her white satin and pesrlsr
And very beautiful she looked L
cried the young physician, firing sud-
denly up at the recollection 0f Miss
Clark's auburn hair, all twisted with
ropes Of seed.pearl, and violet blue
eyes, sparkling with girlish animation
Did she look like poor man 9
wife p
Not bit Of it,
Then be warnei,' said Barley,
shortly. 'Remember the old story of
the moth scorching its wings in the
candle f4me.'
Doctor Dale was client. He had
promised himself the pleastre of Q
call on Ciarissa Clark that very af-
ternoon.
There was something in the girl
that tracted him with almost mag
netic force. The tender light Of her
eyes. the sweet information of her
voice. the rosy Pushes OF color that
overspread her cheek when he talked
to her. were all parate attr actions !;
and yet he knew that he, like the be.
70 In the French romance, was "A
Poor Young Man.
he recollected> now, that he had
even said SOLE eihing to CIissy about
going to the Clark cottage that day.
1T won't do, he said 10 himself.
Il had better keep away.
And SO, instead of following the
dearest inclination ef his heart he
betook himself. with Spartan resolve,
to the public library.
I'LL read up that case on the inyes-
tigation OF cholera microbes he
thought. IL man expects to make
any mark in his profe ssiou he must
keep posted up on these new discore-
ries of science.
So be disappeared into one Of the
alcoves OF the library, with his medi-
cal quarto and bis memoraudumbo book /,
and set to work in good earnest.
But he had not fairly entered into
the merits of the microbe question.
when the twitter Of sweet girl voices
from the adjoining alcove, struck up
on bis ear.
oh, Clissy Clark 7 said one. L
called fot her, and she wouldn't come
IL was baking day and there was ellis 4.
sy up 10 her elbows In flour and
spices
We'll, I never said the other with
giggle.
'Ob, she does all the houseWork +
said the FIRST speaker, scornfully.
Like any hired servant. Even the
fine Washington they only keep one
little bound girl--and Mr. Clark
wont wear a shirt unless CIissy has
ironed it,
How does she End time for music
and oil paiotingH' asked the second.
Oh she rises at dawn. She says
the best time Of the working day is
before breakfast. She finishes her
houseWork, sews for the family
Makes all her own dresses, don't
she 2
Yes. and her mothers, tool That
satin dress che wore at the party last
night was her graadmother's bridal
gown made over, and the pearls were
borrowed from Miss Layton. II don't
cost her anything iodress. She'll take
the horridest old affair and remodel
~ With a scrap Of ribbon or a panel
OF velyetJ until you'd think Il was
made by a French dres smaker.
declare, | wish had her kuack.
Papa is always grumbling about my
bills. But that amt all. Do you
known she gives Bessie Layton mu /.
SIC Lessons, and esrns quite q nice lit
tie income for herself. And she
writes book reviews and things for
the newspapers and keeps DIR. Clark
10 books that way
Dear mel said the ether. With a
yawn. What q dreadfui nuisance
she must dad IL! | couldn't drudge
that way