The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-02
THEIR HONEYMOON.
TROUBLES OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO
MARRIED A DOCTOR.

Young Mrs. Boggs heaved deep sigh
Rs she handed her dainty pink and whit,
rup across the little tea table to her bosom
friend, Mrs. Tublets, for "just one more
lump of sugar." and helped herself TO an.
other wafer
Mrs. Tublets was startled. "My dear
est Laura she exclaimed, "what can
such heartrending sigh mean on the lips
of a bride but just returned from her hon.
! eymooni"
81 do not mind admitting to YOU. dear
Marie, ;" said Mrs. Boggs, putting her now
empty cup upon the table, THAT ! have
already found out that the fate of a doc
tor s wife is not in all respects an enviable
one"
why, Laura, what do you mean9 You
can ms yet have had no experience of inter
rupted dinners, midnight calls and bad
/ bills
CAS- you know, dear Marie" replied
| young Mrs. Boggs, 1--WE started immedi-
ately after our wedding for Chicago, and
my first trial began the very evening of
/ our arrival. We reached the hotel about
O'Clock to find that instead of the fine
suit of rooms we had engaged only one
rather shabby bedchamber had been
saved for us. of course IL was too late
to change our quarters that evening, even
supposing that we could do better at one
of the other hot,es. | felt very dusty and
made up my mind that a nice warm bath
was the thing needed, and so rang the
bell and ordered one prepared. Upon hear
ing the order, Mr.. Boggs turned to me
with look of horror upon his face
DO you mean to say he cried. that
| you would actually take a bath in pub
lie tub in which anybody who pays few
cents can batheY'
Certainly | replied, when l have
not private one. | must keep clean
Laura cried the doctor, do you
not know that number of dreadful dis
eases may be communicated in that very
way? You really will have to countermand
the order. l am very sorry to disappoint
| you, but not for thousands of dollars
would | have you run such risk
And so of course l had to give up my
much coveted bath"
Poor Laura, " said Mrs. Tublets, a very
little smile of amusement curling the cor
ner of her mouth. But Mrs. Boggs did
not see it and continued sadly:
"Most people had trouble in getting
their luggage, and we were among the un-
fortunate in that regard, but consoled
! my SUI WIN lle iutt lHHJ lne next udy
could easily 20 to one of the dry goods
shops and buy some clean clothes. Il shall
not mind the inconvenience at all, re
marked cheerfully to William, because,
you know, | can try them on and be sure
that they fit nicely Alas, poor little
mel l seemed destined to shock what /
call his preiudices.
"'Of course you must be joking he
cried. But | assured him / was never
more serious in my life. Then he looked
actually grieved at my ignorance and re
marked that shopkeepers who allowed un-
dergarments to be tried on ought to be
subject to arrest and fine, if not actually
to Imprisonment. OF course none but
thoughtless, careless persons would dream
of wearing ready made underclothes until
they had been Numbered considering the
fact that they are commonly made in tene-
ment houses full of dirt and bacteria, but
| to actually 90 toa shop where people were
allowed to try on such garments, thus
propagating disgusting skin diseases, one
must be simply mad,
"Of course was very angry at being
| called mad, and then and there we had
our first quarrel.
you might have supposed that this
would be lesson to him not to interfere
with my personal liberty, but not at all
| Hardly two weeks had passed when one
| chilly morning, when we were going to
breakfast in the little sitting room which
we had finally secured, slipped on a
lovely wadded Japanese wrapper of pale
blue silk most deliberately embroidered in
canary colored floss, and as | took a last
glance at myself before leaving my bed
room felt that | looked very nice indeed.
"When | appeared at the breakfast ia
BILE, however, | saw II shade of displeasure
cross my husbands face as he looked with
marked disapproval at my pretty wrapper.
Laura, he said very Seriously, have
you ever worn that gown before2'
Ono l answered, wondering what
was coming next
Then do me the favor to take IL off
and never put it on again. Yes, my dear,
| know it is exceedingly pretty, but as
| likely as not the person who worked all
that elaborate embroidery was a leper or
the victim of some cutaneous disorder.
Those orientals are so prone to such dis
eases, and / cannot allow you to run the
risk of wearing the garment, rich and
| comfortable IA it Is.
"Of course after that could never take
any pleasure in the dress, even il he had
/ not absolutely forbidden my wearing it.
| | was so disappointed that | cried as !
changed it for plain American tea gown
| of cashmere"
sin early September we went to the
mountains for couple Of weeks We
were Mt such nice hotel One of the first
| things that charmed me was the fact that
| every evening we found in our room a
nice pitcher Of ice water. The doctor had
ascertained shortly after our arrival that
| the water was safe to drink, and | was
| enjoying a glass of it in my room one
evening, when William entered and said
"'Iou are not drinking water with ice in
it, trust
"Upon my replying that was, he asked
| If no one had ever explained to me the
danger of ice in country places. OF
COURSE he added, ice is not easy to pro
cure in sufficient quantities to last all
summer for large hotel, and so they take
any ice they can find, and much of it
comes from ponds of stagnant water.
Many cases of typhoid fever can be direct
ly traced TO the drinking of ice water made
from such ice. The latter of course melts
very quickly, and so it is AS II you were
drinking the unhealthy, stagnant water
direct
"From day to day found that ON vari-
Gus preteXts most Of the luXuries of life
were being cut off one by one, There was
some plausible hygis'i &c reason to urge in
every instance. When we went TO New
York, we spent great deal on cab hire,
because William objected to my sitting
next to dirty and possibly unhealthy peo-
pie in the horse cars. Save for the ex-
pense, was resigned 10 that restriction.
But, my dear, II you ever marry again,
strongly urge you to select "a husband from
some profession other than that Of medi
cine. Washington Star
A Surprised Cabby.
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Gaul whose taste for joking led him to tr!
TO bamboozle eabby into attempting it OF
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