The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-06-22

"H'm."
Mr.. Fenton put down his evening
paper and regarded his wife with a
sigh. She sat IN the other side of the
table, mending her way through a pile
of stockings mountain high; a plump
little woman, of 40, non too trig in
figure, decidedly ruffied as to hair,
but with a merry twinkle in her blue
eyes and motherliness expressed in
every line of her comfortable person.
"Well," said he looking up feel
ing with sinking at the heart that
some new complication had come up
in the financial situation, and that she
was about to be treated to views of
bimetallism, adding to the feminine
mind. But no.. Her lord and master
had been led into a very different train
of thought.
cts nearly fifteen years that we
have been married, Mary" he unused,
remembering as he spoke that in all
that time he had hardly ever before
scrutinized her with such a critical
gaze.
"Tell it not in GATH" she laughed,
"I'm growing old, but let us keep it a
secret in the family as long as we
cam
"Yes, you have changed-we have
both changed. What a vain little chat
terbox you used to be-"
"'VoX ct praeterea nihil," expressed
me in those days. Now socks ct
praeterea nihil," would be more like
It," cried Mrs. Fenton, gayly. with a
flourish of her darning-needle at the
work basket. "And as for vanity
Bless my heart! l should like to know
when l have had tine to be vain!'
II am afraid you are getting a lit
tie careless, my DEAR" her husband OBJ
served, congratulating himself on hav-
ing so easily led up to the discussion
he wanted. sometimes it has STRUCK
me that you were almost untidy, and
that's a sad mistake for a woman
If she has the air of being well groom
ed she possesses a great CHARM
Mr.. Fenton Wore prodigiOus whisk
ers, Dundreary like, and they hid {
blush which rose to his face at thu
consciousness that he was quoting thu
newspaper article verbatim ct litera
tim. But his wife had no such pro
lection and the rich color visibly dye
her very brow. To be called untid,
is a cruel stab from ones better halt
but she restrained the Indignation o.
her lips and tried to ask quite calm
ly:
, "Whom should you call a particular
ly we'll groomed woman, now? q
: course, | suppose there 9 of ther
: In the Four Hundred, but among OH
neighbors? 1t would help me to find
model, you know"
There had been moments in thei
t welded career when Mr.. Fenton ha
:, felt that the workings of a feminin
l. intellect were quite beyond him, an
e this was another of them. AT VIII;
was Mary driving? 1t was impossibl
to suspect her of jealousy. for frol
that faint her sweet nature was abs
It lutely free. SO. rather in h darI
9 he replied helplessly:
- "Um-ah. Well. Mrs. Van Dusel
' now. She always seems to me VIII;
10 you would term ll-groomed-a fiji
d figure of a m and dresses might
4 welI.'
Mrs. Van Dusen spends $1,000
:" year for dress where | spend, perhal
$50. She buys her figure from ;
10 expensive corset maker, but it is us
IN less to mention that to a man. 81
has no children, three servants. al
nothing to think of, but fixing hers'
up. | am not complaining jaime
* dear. You remember you brought
m the subject yourself, and when "
- compare me with Robert Van Dusel
IL wife you should consider the ditft
On ence in Il circumstances l ha
many, many cares and my days a
no full to the brim."
The rough head bent over the he
ne which was being filed with a ca
n full lattice work of black yarn. and t
CHI needle went in and out steadily.
GO the members eyer We're dim nobo
noticed 1t.
But it takes very little time to Ike
ones self in neatness and order. ii
iii zeal this now, my dear. A very go
od article. very sensible, too"
The e%louuence of Cicero, the round
III periods of Il Junius would not ha
so moved Mary Fenton at that nome
Id 1t took all her wits to keep down {
,ss bitterness in her heart. Without WI
ing for encouragement her husba
i"' read on
ar ""rhe oma who has an air of
he ing groomed has a very gr'
ISL charm for all men, HE skipped t
sentence. Why expose the writer
a charge of plagiarism Really ladi
you should at least try the expo
is ment. and may well devote a lii
of time each day to the cultivation
an exquisite personal detail at the
pense of some of your frivolous anu
ihS ments. First, do not rise too eal
my Breakfast in bed on a cup of cofi
mt. a roll, perhaps Il little fruit, and y
your toilets for the day"
Up went Mary's eyebrows, anf
sarcastic smile played about
IA mouth. Three children to send
be school at 8 o'clock. and breakfast
MO get before that! CHANGING up, Mr.. I
ton caught the smile.
"Naturally,' he interrupted hims
"every woman can not follow this y
he exactly, but the general outline
good. You'll see."
So he Travelled down the columns }
.ne rectiOns, for the bath with bran bf
her almond meal and orris root. the p,
curing, the manicuring. the elahol
h,;o brushing of hair and teeth, the s.
nastics for the development of the
nus ule, the careful examination of e
,ov- article of clothing to see if a sir
the stitch be wanting, the hundreds of
tie details which it takes 81 few II
utes to write down, so many to ca
as out. As he went on, Mary's matt
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