Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
a DOMESTIC INCIDENT.
when the Husband Reads Aloud. Does th
wife Always ListcnY

wife Always ListenY
"Rcad to me, Billigcr"
II was Mrs. MoSwat who spoke. She
was lying on lounge In the family sit
ting room.
s"What's the use, Lobeliaf said Mr.. Nc
Swat. "You know you'll 60 right to
sleep"
"No, won't. I'm not a bit sleepy"
"You always do go to sleep, anyhow.
What do you want me to rcadg"
Something good. I'm not particular. f"
"How will story by Grant Allen dor"
"As we'll as anything"
"Well, happen to have one in my hand.
will read it."
Mr.. McSwat began:
"'It was detected, dispirited, sheepish
looking throng that gathered ono black
Wednesday round the big back door in
Burlington gardens for 1t was takinG
away day ut the Royal academy.
For weeks before that annual holo
caust many anxious hearts have waitet
and wStched in eager suspense for the flna
verdict Of the hanging committee. To
hang or not to hang, that is tho question.
But on taking away day tho torrible fiat
at last arrives. The committee regrets, on
q Autographed form, that want of space
compels 1t to decline Mr.. So-and-so's oil
painting, "The Fall Of Rahylon," or Miss
What -her-namc's water color, "By Leafy
Thames, and politely informs them they
may remove them at their leisure and al
their own expense from Burlington House
by the back door aforesaid. Then follows o
sad ceremony-tho rejected flock together
to recover their sighted goods and keep
| one another company In their hour of hu.
initiation
The reader stopped moment to glance
at Mrs. McSwat. Her eyes wyre closed,
but she opened them instantly.
"Go ahead, Billiger, she said. "The
! last word was humiliation- heard YOU
Go on"
Mr.. McSwat resumed;
"'It is community Uf grief, a fellow
ship In misery. Each lis only sustained
from whitening under THE observant eye,
of his neighbor Ivy theinward conscious
ness that that HGighbor himself, after all
is in the selfsame box and has been tho re
cipient that dag sJfian identical letter. 4"
"What are gen stopping for, Billiger, ,
demanded Mrs. fMeSwat, again opening
her eyes suddenly. az hear you. Go on. )
| 'Neverthdlessiit was some consolation
to Kathleen Hesselgrave in her disappoint
ment to Observe tho varying moods ant
shifting humors of her follow sufferer
among the'rejected. She had keen sens
of the ridiculous, and it lightencd he
trouble somewhat to watch among th
crowd thediffcrent funny ways in whicl
other people bore or concealed their Owl
disappointment for her ediflcation.'
Here Mr.. McSwat, who had stolen
glanoe'at his wife and observed that he
eyes were closed and that she was breath
ing deeply and regularly, hastily reachct
for a'copy of the official Directory of tl
Fifty Third congress that lay on the tabl
near his hand, opened 1t at random ant
withonta moments pause went on:
William Alfred PETER of Topeka wa
born On.a farm in Cumberland county
Pa, Sept. 10, 1881; attended q public
school; began teaching at the age of II
years; taught during winter and farmet
In summer; removed to Indiana June
1858, and opened farm in St. JOSEPH
county; removed to Missouri September
1850, and purchased farm In Morgan
county; because of the war removed tt
illinois February, 1869, and enlisted as {
private in Company F, Eighty-third Hi
tnOis infantry ry'-'m-'m-when did he
Oh, Removed to Kansas in Janu
'ary, 1870, and praoticed law there till
\ 1878, in the meantime establishing ant
'oonducting two newsrapers. the Fredonia