The herald., 1894-01-01
MATRIMONIAL PUZZLES.

''It's mighty puzzlin'! more kompler-
katsd every day Rsubin an live ter
gether."
The other woman, just opposite in
he car, nodded.
"You see my mother a-dyin' left me
lonesum an unsettled like. l didn't
know what ter do with myself. when 1
wuzzent A-workin.' Times wuz dull
with me. When 1 wuzzent a-cryin' 1
wuz a-mopin'; an when L wuzzent a
mepin' wuz a-longin' fer somsthin'
didn't know 'zactly what. Sarah Jane
said as how it wuz man wuz a-want-
in to tex the empty place in my heaft.
She sent her brother over that very
evenin'. My eyes were a-swelled out
as big as walnuts, an [ wuz fright if
there ever wuz one. But axed him in,
fer wuz a-longin' fer change of sum
sort, an it 'peared to be kind of him to
KUN right ever. l tried my peartest tew
intertain him, but / jest broke out a.
cryin every time tried tew open my
mouth tew say nothin'. Then he sot
his cheer close up tew mine an took my
left ham in hisn. hated tew grab it
away from him jest when he wuz a-tryin'
so hard tew be a-sympathizin'. He
held it all the evenin'. We couldn't say
nothin' tew amount tew nothin'. The
next evenin' he came an held my han
agen'."
"Of course" dryly remarked the
woman opposite.
"The holdin' OF hams kontinu'd till
we wuz engaged, an thst kontiru'd till
we wuz marrid. So fur it wuz plain
sailin'."
$50 far it was plain sailing" repeated
the woman just opposite.
ut wuz. AM the only plain sailin'
we've he'd. Fer we got right tew talkin'
after we wuz hitched an the more we
talked the more komplerkated things
got. He wanted me tew jine the Ksth-
olics as wuz the only 'postolick church,
as he sed. An told him as how this
church OF the New Era wuz good enough
fer me, an if there wuz emmy church
iinin' it was the New Era'church he he'd
better be jinin' as wuz later an more up
tew the times we wuz a-livin' in. We
talked mess over the biziness of church
iinin' an nothin' kum of it but hard
feelin.' Then We talked pow erful
sight over the sellin' of the home as
mother died in, an buyin farm with
it, or a tradin' fer one if we couldn't
sell. Reubin wuz sure he could mex
money ham over fist-them's his very
words-a-sellin' butter an eggs an one
thing an another. AM l sed as how |
didn't want tew work myself tew death
fer folks as didn't need tew hev me. Fer
the furst thing Reubin would set out to
plant would be a morgige, as is the
hardest tew raise of ennything you kin
plant. Mother an father both killed
themselves a-tryin' to raise thet pesky
thing. an then lost the hull bizness
anil mean TO profit by their 'sperience.
The homo as berlongs ter me- now wlz
Civ to nv mother by brother John as
Wuz determined as how our mother
should hev roof over her he'd afore she
died. as nobody could TEX away from
her. He give it to her afore he wuz
killed ia @ mine. 1t berlongs 5ew me
now an Reubin sez it must be traded
onto q farm aa Wen be sure to lose
a-tryin' to save, when we've planted the
best years OF our life on't am ken do
nothin else.
''Nothlng more certain, nowadays,"
agreed the woman opposite.
"Another thing we hey talked a pile
on, an that's The havin' family Of
children afore we know where the
breads tew cum from tew feed 'em.
Reubin's got no stiddy, payin' job, and
won't undertek tew jobs. 'Taint fair
tew the children. They ort tew hev
peart-llke start in this orful, competin'
world; not tew be world an worked
tew death aiore they're born an half
staryed afterwards"
That's true"
Then Reubin CONTINUES: "Bnt l must
hey some boys tew work the farm, sez
Reubin."
But Sou've not got any farm tew
work. sez |, NOR emmy money tew buy
one with" (Which we must lose no
time tradin' this place for" he kon-
tinu's.
mot at ALL" sez 1; "the homo bsr-
longs ter me, an will Dever consent TO