The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-10
WOMAN'S WEARY DUTIES
Steps Along the Path That Leads
to Housekeeping.
The Labor in Looking Around Little
Problems of Glass Pitchers-Nisap- Ia
prehensions of Truck Load
of Packages.

ne had that day signed the Lease u the
house which they had decided TO take,
aud then told the colored waiter that
he would like sCme more beef. The
waiter left tie door open behind him as
he went into the Kitchen, and bawled:
Hes been asking for more beef"
somebody's been asking for more
beef" shrieked the landlady's dasugh-
ter.
Who's been asking for more beef?"
demanded the iandiady.
The other boarderS looked curiously
at the man who had asked for it. A
shade of veXation came upon his face,
and as he ate and choked over the beef,
he remarked to his wife:
Il will be glad when we do get to
housekeeping
Yes, DEAR" said his wife.
''Of COURSE" continued the husband,
81 don't mean that I'll like it simply
because then I'll get enough to eat, but
HI be glad to have home of our own"
so sweet" murmured his wife.
and" the husband went on with
enthusiasm that grew the more he
choked over the beef, 81 suppose we
might as we'll move in at once, as soon
as we get few things we need, and
then we can furnish it properly after
ward as we go along"
of course, DEAR" aSsented his wife.
''Well, them said the husband,
brisbly, in good spirits in spite of the
beef, lets say you pack up tomorrow,
and we move in the day after"
Put, DEAR" said the wife, putting
her head on one side and wrinklng her
forehead, "do you think we can pos
sibly do that?"
"Why, yes" said the husband. 'I'll
Just stop in at a store tomorrow morn
ing and tell them to send up what we
need"
"H-m-m," murmured the wife, slow
Iy.
"We'll just get some things to cook
with and eat with and sleep on to start
with" the husband explained lightly.
"Yes?" returned the wife, with in
creasing doubt.
Eyes" said the husband. "You
might tell me now the things to get"
well" replied the wife, promptly,
<'for the kitchen we need" and she
tallled for five minutes. "0f course"
she said in conclusion, those arc only
the most important things. the things
we can't get along without, and may
have forgotten some. Then there are
The other things we will be needing
all the time, and the things we'll have
20 have sometimes"
Say" asked the husband, with the
danWlng OF an abyss before nm, ''doh't
you think, after all, that it would be
Better for you to step into the store in
the morning and 10 the ordering your
self?"
\ soft, low light came into her eyes.
Very WE'LL" she replied, sweetly.
And you can get everything that
we'll need at once, so that we can move
in the day after, can't you?" he asked
u little anXiously.
I'll try she replied earnestly and
bravely; but you know III l4aye to
look around little to see what l can
get. You know it would be eXtrava-
giant if l were to buy everything in the
first store [ entered; and you don't
want me to be extravagant, do you,
DEAR"
NO, no." said the husband quickly,
and the next morning he deposited her
at the door of the first of the stores.
That afternoon he hurried home
from business as soon as he could get
away so that he might help in the pack
ing and other preparations for moving
on the following day. His conscience
rather rcproached him for having left
the labor Of shopping and of packing
both to his wife, and his rcmorse was
Intensified when he opened the door of
their room and caught sight of her
tired, worried face.
''Oh, I'm so glad you've corle," she
said eagerly. Il need your advice so
much. My head is actually whirling
with all I've been through to-day"
Poor thing SAID the husband peni-
tcntly. Il ought to have known better
than to make you do all that yourself,
especially as | really was afraid of the
job myself when l shunted it off on
you. 1t must have been dreadful"
1T was so pulling" returned the
wife with a sigh. Il was trying to
make up my mind about these" and
she pointed to a raw of glass pitchers
on the table before her. Did do right
in buying those, or should 1 have taken
china?"
''Oh, it doesn't matter" said the hus-
band consolingly.
'Now," continued the wife, absorbed
in the problem before her, "they pre-
tend that these are cut glass. You can
see for yourself that they are not the
best cut" puthting one of them into
her husbands hands, but they say
they're German or English cut glass.
which isn't so good as ours. What do
you Think"
Il think they're glass returned the
husband rather vaguely after an exam
jnation.
NOW" the wife went on, "if they're
pressed glass, l paid too much for
them; but if they're any kind Of cut
glass, the were cheap, one-tifth of
what American cut would be-"
Then" said her husband impressive
~, ''you did quite right to buy them"