The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-09
MR.. PARLOA.
An UnHnop7n Husband Of q wen known
Woman OF the Day.

Written exclusively for The czentlemen's
Home Journal AID no other-l
A tall gentleman, giving evidence Of a
ceaseless warfare waged with dyspepsia
answered the bell. and when the CORE
spondenb presented his card the tall gen
tleman greeted him warmly.
All, yes, he cried in glseful accents,
going before me into the parlor and mo
tioning me- TO a seat upon a horsehair
lounge The Gentlemen's Home Journal
is the choicest magazine that comes to our
family Eagerly do I long for the months
to dec away that I may revel in the next
number and learn how to cut over Mrs
Parloa's garments for our children SO as
80 make them look almost like the illus
trations."
It was in the home Of Mrs. Parloa, the
celebrated co0kisb, that found myself, and
with profound emotions I studied the fea-
lures Of one who, though little known to
the outside world, yet fills q long felt
want tending two COWS, raising bees and
q large family Of children and by the exer-
else Of al the domestic virtues permitting
Mrs. EaTIOa to go forth and aogua1nt the
public with the best process for amalga-
mating some eggs in a chatting dish with
out Rttnching them permanently to the
bottom of the pan.
Mr.. Psrloa, said, 81 have called at
the instigation Of Tho GentIemen's Home
Journal to interview you in behalf Of its
editor. who wishes to write a piece about
you and give it the benefit Of cur enor-
nous cash circulation -
Mr.. Parloa smoothed his collar and
laughed an engaging little laugh.
"Xou naughty literary menl' he cried
with q shake of the finger at me. fsNot
even the privacies of the home circle are
secure from your pictures. When 7 first
married Mrs. ParlOa, = he went on, cross
ing his hands deinurely in his lap, "she
was unknown to fame. For centuries the
world had gone on frying its steak in
pale and habby variety of wagon grease or
molding its tea biscuits after an old proc
ess which, while it left them fairly sym
netrical, yet fitted them rather for pass
ing through a government target than the
stomach Of a human being destined for
higher sphere.
Harriet Beeoher, if you don't quit toe-
ing in you viii acquire that posture per
manently, and then how will you look
when You come to get married and have
children Of your own2''
= young girl passing through the room
was the occasion of this impressive digres-
sion.
1t was on our wedding tour, - resumed
Mr.. Parloa, blushing daintily through his
whiskers, 'that I first observed Mrs. Par
loa's adherence for hotel viotuals cooked
in the same dish, and we'll do remembe
the pure light Of a noble purpose that
shone in her young eyes as she shortly aft
erward turned her talents to improving
the asbestus bottom soling Of homemade
.s7vilfred Lawson. if Won do not stop
so7,inti-7g vo77 viii min vorr vision ana
ty5e1 z7he@ y1iil r-o,1, r3o+t,e, ssz-sss
Tbfe oo,,c1I7fS57,qy ,.sT7,s7l- vT-ae a75resea7
to a fair haired youth who sat near the
window working a single nail into the
vanished seat Of a Louis XVI chair.
1T was hard at first, = continued Mr..
li,Difs7 sr5 seg raa1iza obi tbe c,st ~
etore F,,tta~ ana sq.os tbst have not T3rev5.
oT,slv bes77 77ee9 6Df7 II Is obl q 90 tn
I,ave r. Iiv-o 77v,r7, +b57,e4z +be+. ars At baeA
but exDerilne1lts and out Of which. through
fatal error. something has been left that
the hammered stomach absolutely aDpears
to banker altar
Tt III 4besa aarlv evnerirnents that Nh
parloa attrib,fes his r3reeort cadavnro,le-
7,ags f1ri.,i,,.ll- q ,,,I,,7-+ no., ~. e,,,vl7
Il 5,,r,ossibie -, ,,,,aes,,r-o Tho f,,Il 0,eb -
strar7syrb mo-, = Tow f,,ie IF obsrIotts
rT1eea +hat T,a,I been left over C9ffsn nae
Mr. T2arIoa foils5 fhro,7eyb q whole Slav ~
T7anf7i,7e1 T,e,lsf77e, at iT7rarvaIe II ~ nm
the bruises Of tbe children az tbev fall onh
of chairs and lit with 7nerrjno precision
uDon tie stove. toilino on. faint and
weary bie system craving han, only ia
have Mrs Parloa come home from the
COOKING clees bearin1 IN her bansa eiv
vgF5rTe7 cres7,, ,.,fgs e,,r7 a two ,,7e,t 5ieb
~ go 80 sei 80 ~ I3sa+i,e, ono
Goo - . f,o+b ND tIs,9 e1fe7a7,I-z oo3l-37o.
Il 5aforo ~ ewes If Il If the rrettiass
nirls II, for-7,
But Mr. ParJoa,s love never faltered.
How essential if ID ia the sneeess Of > Great
public career that ones helnmeot be such
81 nv glf,oa ~ ft,a a,7eesse If q eyraa+
rIlI,I;s, aareerf What could woman io. in
the vast 9rar. ~ b,7,,,e9 acb;az,e,ne,t did
not her husband rs5,Cler r,oesibla the ever
cise of ~. Fierl,a. +sIo,,ts ~ ets-f,,cr II
hone aud letfiz,ey a connIe n Hgbt o,rav
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