Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-12
,WOMAN's WEARY DUTIES
Steps Along the Path That Leads
to Housekeeping.
The Labor In Looking Around a Little
Problems of Glass Pltchers--B -BIisap- "A
prehensions of n Truck Load
of Packages.

he had that dny signed the lenso OF the
house which they had decided to take,
and then told the colored waiter that
he would like some more beef. The
waiter left the door open behind him as
he went into the kitchen, and bawled:
'He's been asking for more beef!"
Somebody's been asking for more
beef!" shrieked the landlady's daugh-
ter.
who's been asking for more beef?"
demanded the landlady.
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:
II will be glad when we do get to
housekeeping"
"Yes, DEAR" said his wife.
"Of course" continued the husband,
"I don't mean that I'll like it simply
because then I'll get enough to eat but
I'll be glad to have a home of our own"
$50 sweet" murmured his wife.
"And,' the husband went on with
enthusiasm, that grew the more he
cholled 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,. then" said the husband,
briskly, in good spirits in spite of the
beef, lets say you pack up tomorrow,
and we move in the day after"
"But, DEAR" said the wife, putting
her head on one side and wrinkling her
forehead, "do you think we can pos
sibly do that?"
"Why, yes," said the husband. "I'll
just stop in at n store tomorrow morn
ing and tell them to send up what we
need"
''H-m-m," murmured the wife, slow
ly.
"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.
YES" said the husband. "You
might tell me now the things to get"
"Well," replied the wife, promptly,
"for the kitchen we need" and she
talked for five minutes. "0f course" !"
she said in conclusion, "those are only
the most important things, the things
we can't get along without, and l may
have forgotten some. Then there are
the other things we will be needing
all the time, and the things we'll have
to have sometimes"
Say" asked the husband, with the
danwing of an abyss before him, don't
you think, after all, that it would be
the morning and do the ordering your
self?"
a soft, low light came into her eyes
Every 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
little anXiously.
'I'u try" she replied earnestly and
brayely; "but you know I'll have to
look around little to see what can
get. You know it would be eNtrava-
CANT if were TO bpy everything in the
first store 1 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 hel
St 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 conscienc.
rather reproached him for having left
the labor of shopping and of packing
both to his wife, and his remorse wa:
intensified when he opened the door o.
their room and caught sight of he
tired, worried face.
"Oh, I'm so glad you've corle," sh'
said eagerly. II need your advice st
much. My head is actually whirline
with all I've been through to-day"
poor thing" said the husband peni
tently. II ought to have known bette
than to make you do all that yourself
especially as really was afraid of th'
job myself when 1 shunted it off OIL
you. 1t must have been dreadful"
"It was SO puzzling," returned th
wife with a sigh. Il was trying II
make up my mind about these" ant
she pointed to raw of glass pitcher
ON Cne UdDle DeIOIc ntT. blu uo IlS III
in buying those, or should have talSel
china?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter" said the hus
band consolingly.
"Now," continued the wife, absorbe'
in the problem before her, "they pre-
tend that these are cut glass. You ca
see for yourself that they are not th
best cut" puthting one of them int
her husbands hands, "but they sa.
they're German or English cut glas:
which isn't SO good as ours. What d
you thinlS?"
81 think they're glass; returned tn
husband rather vaguely after an exam
ination.
SNOW" the wife went on, "if they'r
pressed glass, paid too much fo
them: but If they're any kind of cu