Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-09-13

by sitting day after day In the mias.
matte atmosphere OF her toothbrush
and combings, and he wanted TO try
10 reclaim her, to make u healthy,
happy woman of her. SO he built a
house that might have been called
palace, II any one OF those wretched
old European palaces were one-hun-
dredth part as good as the kind of house
an American builds when he sets out
to please his wife. One speciality about
this house was that it had more differ.
ent sorts of rooms than any house that
ever was heard of. II had parlors and
drawing-rooms and withdrawing
rooms, and without drawing rooms, and
dining rooms, and wining-rooms and
music rooms and picture rooms and IL
6raries and aviaries and apiaries and
conservatories and observatories and
every possible and impossible archi-
tectural outfit that ever was devised.
But the heart and soul of the whole
house was the boudoir. It was on that
boudoir that this man flung himself
lie had fought In the wild west with
savage Indians and rough frontiers
men. In the face of countless obsta-
cles he had made himself rich and re-
spected. His courage was dauntless;
chilled-steel was mush in comparison
with his nerve. This was the man
who had undertaken to cure his wife
of the bedroom habit
The boudoir that he offered her as
substitute for her bedroom was mar.
vel of nineteenth century art. In or.
der to get 1t just exactly right, he sent
for boudoir expert from Paris, and
gave him full, unlimited swing. When
the expert got through, that boudoir
had cost quarter of million dollars,
and it had not its equal upon earth.
There was no resource of art or of tex
tile manufacture that had not been cx-
hausted to make it beautiful Silks
and satins We're the cheapest of its
draperics Couches, sofas, divans,
every possible invention In the way Of
furniture wherein woman could lie
or lounge or sit or sprawl was there to
tempt the Incidence of the gentle mis-
trcss of the place. Perfume fountains
played In every known key of odor.
Birds Of sweetest song caroled from
golden cages, and were trained to shut
up when so directed. No appurtenanco
of luxury, comfort or elegance was
wanting in this magic chamber. He
made his wife promise that she would
give up her commonplace bed-cham-
Der and pass her leisure hours in this
halcyon abode, and he had chromatic
slides fixed in the window sashes, so
that by touching the proper button
she could have any illumination she
wanted to suit whatever complexion
she happened to have on.
She was true woman and she kept
her promise. Day by day she faded
away, and her wan, white cheek grew
pale and palcr. Day by day, hour after
hour she sat In her martyrdom, dream
ing Of her washstand, dreaming of her
toothbrush, dreaming of her soapdish,
dreaming Of the dear, dear tin slopjar.
Her husband noted with anxiety her
failing health, but his coarse mascu'
line perception did not enable hira to
guess the cause. At last there came O
time when he was obliged to leave her
for fortnight, and with streaming
eyes he confided her to the old nurse
who had cared for her In infancy.
No sooner was he gone than this he
roic woman resolved upon radical
and daring course Of action. Hurry
ing to her own humble apartment she
hastily dragged her modest cottage
bed into the magnificent boudoil
of her mistress. Thither also hel
strong arms bore her washstand
crowned with It's soapdish and tooth
brush mug, and flanked by a galvanized
iron slopjar. The invalids weary eye
opened and rested upon these familia,
objects. A moment of fearful incre
dulity was succeeded by one of raptur
GUS gladness; life dawned for the poo
sufferer again; brighter than mother
of-pearl shone the mottled splashes o
the galvanized iron. She gazed aroun'
her upon the familiar outfit, and from
that moment her recovery began. TIL,
hue Of health was in her checks whel
her husband returned from his jour
ney. In token Of his gratitude, gol'
soapdish set with damon Is now orna
ments the washstaud, which has be
come permapence in his wife's bed
roomized boudoir.-H. G. Bunner, Il
Puck.