Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-04-04

even as foreman at a mill. But tbev did
not know this, and without another word
both cheerfully accepted the new life
which was TO begin the next Monday
| morning.
The hardest bit of it was the long
hours-the separation from the dusk Of
the morning till after nightfall. Some
times ROderick came In 80 tired that.
instead of talking, he would Just throw
himself down-not on the sofa, that he al,
ways left for her, but ON the rug Mt her
teet-and fall asleep till bedtime. while
she, anxious to use her busy fingers TO
the last available minute, sewed silently.
watching him the while If he had seen
that watch! Does man ever thoroughly
comprehend how woman loves him? !
But, the working days done, there were
the blessed Sundays, he never knew how
blessed, he said, till he became "work.
ing-man." Church over, his wife sent
him TO take a long stroll over the hills.
while she gathered round her for an houE
the little class Of mill girls, taught for 80
many years by Miss Jardine. Roderick
sometimes grumbled ut this, but she
said, gently, 1--WE each do our work.
think this is mine; let me do It," And by
the time he came to tea it was done,
and the jealous fellow had his wife to
himself for the whole evening.
Those sweet Sunday evenings when
the rain was on the rOOf"-for winter
set in early that year-how comfortable
they We're! The two, shut in together,
had to learn the great secret, and 20
through the hardest test of married life
even such young married life rs theirs
constant companionship; not love, not
passion, scarcely even affection-for all
these can sometimes exist without it,
at least for long time-but simple COM
panionship, that priceless friendship
which is "love without his wings"
Suppose YOU had been goose, ST.
lence," he said one day. Suppose you
had expected me to be always making
love to you, instead of talking to you
like sensible woman; suppose you had
not cared for the things care for, but
wanted something totally different--say
dressing and dancing and going out of
evenings-what in the world would have
become of meI"
She laughed merrily "And suppose
you had been man Of the world, who
liked good dinners and brilliant society,
and was ashamed of his poor little wife
because she was not clever---"
NONSENSE
mot clever" she repeated, with
sweet decision, after the fashion that is
called clever; nor beautiful nor grand;
had brought him no money and given
him no pOsition-I don't speak often of
this, but | know it all. Suppose, Rod
erick, you had been different from what
you are; ! wonder what would have be-
come of me! No, nor And her gayety
melted into IN almost sad seriousness.
Whatever the future brings we have the
present Let us rejoice in it, and-let us
thank God
In his old life Roderick had seldom
thought of this. Now, when every night |
he saw his wife kneel down by her bed |
side, he had come instinctively to kneel |
beside her. Saying his prayers" as the |
children do; or, rather, since with her |
always near him there seemed nothing |
left 10 pray for, juss whispering in his |
Heurl, AHuHh bOu3 hb ne ulu HOW
ay, and many time in the day, in the |
midst of his work, which was NOT too |
pleasant sometimes. But it grew pleas
ant and easy when there flashed across |
him the vision of the sweet face at home |
no longer the ideal mistress of his |
dreams. but the dear wife of his bosom,
always at hand to tighten his burdens
and divide his cares.
TO be COntinuedO