The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-01

Their FIRST QUARREL.
1t Was Caused by Combination Of
Wrong Dressing and Bad Temper.
"And YOU and Fred really never never

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Wrong Dressing and Bad Temper.
"And you and Fred really never, never
quarrel"
The caller, who was also privileged
and intimate friend, expressed increasing
skepticism in the crescendo tones of her
voice.
eve never do"
as he, then, an angel. Remember, Meg,
was your chum at school. Can you say
as well that you never have quarreleds"
perhaps it is my duty to give you an
unbiased account of our first and only
quarrel. 1t may serve to avert like
catastrophe in your own life on some
future occasion"
At which the caller blushed. but was
quite sure that she would quarrel any
way in spite of the warning unless Tom
let her have things her own way.
Girls who talk that way always make
the most obedient wives. But to my story
You would never guess that the quarrel
was all caused by dress, or rather by
wearing the wrong dress in the right place,
as Fred afterward said. | was doing my
own homework in those days and sending
the laundry out. On this particular morn
ing / allowed myself to feel a little cross
over the fact that l had oversight myself
The second mishap was that my clean
print dress had not returned from the
wash, SO l put on pretty afternoon dress,
for l made it a rule always to look neat at
breakfast. This was some years ago, when
gowns were made less plainly than now,
and my i'll temper was not lessened by the
sound of ripping as my dress caught in the
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of the most vicious kind of q three cor
nered tear.
Moments were precious Fred was
obliged to take a certain train every morn
ing from our suburban home TO the city,
and there was no time to repair the dam
age, except so far as a pin could be made
to hold the parts together. However, l
struggled prayerfully with my growing If
ritation and gathered the materials for my
biscuits, when, to my further annoyance,
found it impossible to raise my sleeves
The woman who can make bread or biscuit
with her sleeves down to her wrists and
still pursue the even tenor of her way Is tit
for canoniZation.
81 comforted myself with the reflection
that biscuit dough should be handled very
lightly, with finger tips only, and was sue
ceeding very well when l felt my biggest
hairpin slipping down my back. l had
hastily twisted my hair into Psyche knot,
and it was on this pin that the structure
mainly depended. / could not go to its
rescue with my hands covered with -four,
and when Fred looked into the kitchen
and suggested that he had less than an hour
in which to breakfast and reach the depot /
felt myself outrageously i'll used. His at
tempt to pacify me with joke on my
'fowery appearance I resented as an in
suit 1t seemed to me that many woman
had obtained a divorce on less grounds.
"Well, that was all there was about our
first quarrel at least all that / care to
repeat, for l said great many unjust and
unWarrantable things in my anger, and it
might have had a much more tragical end
ing but for Fred sweet temper. 1t was a
most one sided quarrel. You see, dear,
plead guilty to ali the reproach implied in
that little feminine speech, Remember,
Meg / was yor;r chum at school, But,
really you would not find me such bad
chum now, for trust have improved by
association.
"When Fred left home after his most
cherries breakfast sat down to indulge
in n fit of retrospection over the events of
that i'll starred morning. l am willing to
say now that it was all the fault of my
temper, but then l laid it all at the door of
that inappropriate dress with its abonina-
BILE draperies. | made a resolution then
and there never again to wear any but a
suitable dress in my kitchen, one made in
such manner as to bid defiance to door
knobs and keys, and one with sleeves wide
enough TO roll up. Next l decided that l
would never again trust to one hairpin,
and, thirdly, that my boots should always
be buttoned before | left my room. for
got to mention how largely my unbuttoned
boots contributed that morning to my I'M
happy frame OF mind.
You don't see any particular moral'
There are several. First, be sure to marry
man with the best disposition this side of
Paradise. Next, cultivate an even temper
yourself, if you are not already blessed
with one. | mean one evenly good, not
evenly bad. Again, if you do your own
homework, wear a suitable dress. Don't
take your old street dresses for wear in the
kitchen Better send them to some mis-
sion"
However, the caller assured the moralist
that she never intended to do any kitchen
work, and so that sermon was lost.-New
York Recorder.