The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-05
LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE.
Mr.. Newiywed's Dress Suit Was Not Elk.
actly In the Right Condition.

actly In the Right Condition.
Mr.. Robert Nowlywed turned up at
his office morning last week with q
grieved expression, indicating very
plainly that he could tell q tale of woe
if he were urged. Only two months be.
fore he had run the gantlet of rico and
old slippers, and since that event life
had been developing for him in uncX.
pected ways.
Mono Of your boarding houses FOR
me-" said Mr.. Newlywed. ''Of course
my wife doesn't know anything about
housekeeping, but she will learn by
mistakes, and l have already u good
cook in view"
That was before the old slippers and
rice. Judging from Mr.. Newlywed's
fragmentary remarks on life in Z fla,
Mrs. Newlywed has been learning some
things in just the way Robert expected
she would. Mr.. Newlywod's grieved OK.
preston occasionally is understood by
his friends to announce m acquisition
of knowledge on the part Of Mrs. New.
lywed. Ho told of tho latest experience
of this kind after n reasonable amount
of sympathetic urging.
Mrs. Robert has her own ideas Of
good form. She not only objects to her
husband carrying home bundles of any
kind, but she further believes that her
servants should not DO seen carrying
any of tho results of q mornings mar.
keting into the rather aristocratic apart
ment house in which she lives.
II Think, " she said not long ago,
that it is positively vulgar-no Other
| word fits it-for ones servants to Ing
homo a package of steak or whatever
the markotman has neglected to deliver.
There are many little ways in which
such displays Of ones household econ-
omy or extravaganza may be avoided,
you know"
Mrs. Newlywed had an opportunity
to test her theory one Monday evening.
When she returned after some calls III
| the afternoon, she found that her orders
! for dinner had not been delivered. She
sent Mary out to get them. She told
Mr.. Newlywed that mono Of the other
servants in tho house had even suspect
cd that her servant had brought in the
dinner ut q late hour, and Mr.. Newly
wed asked no questions. The next aft
ernoon the Newlyweds went up to
Poughkeepsie to dino with old friends,
and it was the day following that New
lywed's grieved expression appeared II
the Office.
"Of course" no said, "she won't dc
this same thing again, for it was very
embarrassing. Our host thought it was
funny, and so it was, real funny-ha'
ha-but very embarrassing"
More sympathy for Mr.. Newlywed,
mixed with judicious praise of Mrs
Newlywed, provoked the tale.
II had just time" said Mr.. Newly
wed, ION Tuesday to fire my evening
clothes and some things, you know
into q leather dress suit case and rur
for my train. My wife went on an early
train. When l reached the house IL
Poughkeepsie, ! made q rapid chang
and was dressed just on the minute tina
dinner was announced. l thought tina
in an apartment we were not SO con
stantly reminded Of the presence Of
kitchen as we were in this house. M.
wife began to look embarrassed fiv'
minutes after I entered the room, ant
SO did the hostess and the other guests
Say. I'm not going into the details o
this thing. 1t wasn't explained unit
my wife suddenly asked:
"'Robert. you never packed You
things In that leather box, did you?
"'That's just what ! did do said
and ! made quick work Of it,
II thoughG my wife was going {
faint. Then she became hysterical, an
in that condition she explained. Q
course it was funny, you know, but en-
: barrassing. Mary had been using m
, dress suit case to smuggle in the market
I ing. Mrs. Newlywed and I are fond
fsh, you know. It was . clever ide'
now. wasn't II? But embarrassing