New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-28
HIS SECOND WIFE,

fsolute, hright-eyed woman Of seven or
eight-and-twenty.
wouldn't have believed it, unless
you had told it with your own lips, .
said Miss PeggereN, dolefully.
"Why not?" said Agatha.
"It's just selling yourself that's
Eli ''snifed Miss Peggerell.
eNo, it's not" said Agatha Simplex,
bruskly. He's very nice man.
"He's twenty years older than. you
are" 49,.
"Well," said Miss Simplex, "and
what difference does that make? I'm
solitary and alone in the woodland
Mr.. Mixsell is willing to give me a
homeland respect him very highly
and I've no doubt we shall be very
happy together"
"Humph?" commented Miss Pegger-
eel. Agatha turned sharply around.
"'What does that mean?" said she.
.f'Nothing," said Miss Peggerell.
"aOnly he bullied his first wife into her
grave" 81
"He'll not bully me into mine"
shrewdly remarked Miss Simplex.
"Im not so sure OF that"
az am!''
"'Well, at all events" added Miss
,Peggerell, "you can't say you've not
been fairly warned. "
ONO r ,1,or,A cold h-o C;,,,1o1
and she married Mr.. Moses Mixell be-
2fore the moon was fortnight older.
Mr.. Mixell was a very worthy mem
Der OF society, bald-headed, double
~chinned and rather spoiled in conse-
-quence of always having had his own
way. The late Mrs. Mixsell had been
zone of those meek, retiring little per-
sons who never seem quite certain
whether their souls belong to them
selves Or to somebody else, and there
were those who, like Miss Peggerell,
did not hesitate boldly to assert that
her brief space of life had been short
ened by the domineering will and
stern discipline OF Moses, her lord and
master.
But all these reports Mrs. Mixsell
the second neither needed nor be-
Iieved.
my DEAR" said she to her hus-
band, after they had been married
about three weeks, 1.-THE Hutchinson
family is going to give a concert here,
on Wednesday evening"
care they?" said Moses; "well, what
OF that?'
81 should like to &C.," said Mrs.
Mixsell. ....
81 shouldn't" said Mr.. Mixsell.
81 mean to CO." said Mrs. Mixsell.
"And l mean you sha'n't," said Mr..
Mixsell.
Agathas cheeks crimsoned; her
eyes spanked with an ominous luster
1Why not, Moses?" said she.
"'sI don't approve Of concerts" said
Mr.. Mixsell. 'sIt's my opinion that a
married woman is better off at home
.darning her husband s stockings than
gadding off to public places.
''Don't / keep your stockings well
darned.
~ don't say but that you dc" ad.
rnitted the bridegroom. 'But I don't
mean to encourage this fancy OF yours
for running to every wild beast show
and public exhibition in town! And
mot to mince matters, intend to put
1t down" with great emphasis on the
last three words.
~ shall COL" said Agatha.
1'You shall not! said Moses.
GLOW will you prevent it?' said
Mrs. Mixsell. 'tUnless, indeed, you
dock me into my room' with little
laugh.
Il shall do that, if it proves neces.
=sary," said Mr.. Mixsell "And keer
you there on bread and water, my
Sine madam"
.'You dare mott" said Agatha
s.You shall see, 2 said Mr.. Mixsell.
And SO the married couple came to
nigh words within the month.
Agatha was putting on her bonnet
and shawl in her own room on the
Wednesday evening when Mr.. Mixsell
came to the door and eyed her with
extreme severity.
"You are determined to make afool
of yourself, eh?" said he.
81 am determined to 60 to the
roncert!' retorted she that was
Agatha Simplex.
sI'hen it's my duty to enforce my
martial authority said Mr.. Mixsell
And he locked the door and put the
Skey III his pocket
Here you shall remain, madam
said he, until you break that
stubborn will ofyours. At 6 o'clock
Tomorrow morning / shall put in a
loaf OF bread and q pitcher of water.
Mrs. Mixsell made no reply, and he1
husband began to fear that the task
of reducing her to subsection was not
going TO be as easy as he had antici
pated.
He stalked of, andspent the evening
comfortably by the fire.
The next morning, Ebenezer Hill
grove, who was going to lay halfs
-aozen yards or SO OF stone wall FOL