The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-23
JOHNS PAJAMAs.
Mrs. Matrimonial Hiss Tells n Tear
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Women. my dear are queer creatures. e
volunteered Mrs John Matrimonial Bliss.
looking up from many odds and ends OF
millinery tribes that she was diligently
sorting
Il often feel perfectly queer and mex
plicable myself and set We are not half
60 unreasonable and. yes. cross-gralned
as men" snapped Mrs Thomas Honey
moon. who was half OBVIOUSLY observing
Mrs Bliss Industry from the depths OF
her rocking chair.
Now what makes you say that?' in
nocently inquired the lady on the floor.
trying to eolonize a bunch OF red velvet
roses on an old green felt shape. and
seize the effect by means OF a hand mirror.
Lots Of things" assured the caller
Before / married. you know, ! cherished
pretty high ideas about the masculine ma
lure. thought men so vastly superior
20 details. so biz minded never put out
OF temper by little things. leaving tribes
10 women and 20 on"
"weil?" came gentle Interrogation
from the amateur miiiner.
Well" answered the bride with dis
tinctiy fearful quaver in the laugh. I've
lived 10 learn that a man can be petty
enough to disturb a household. 20 lose
his self-control. 20 wound irrcpara0ly the
feelings OF those nearest and dearest TO
him. simply because his pajamas were
hung two nights In succession Ia dif-
fereut place"
Here Mrs Bliss very suddenly began to
augh a laugh OF such relish and vigor
that the green felt ana the red roses has
uy slid over her nose 20 che floor aud
moulentarily obscurei sight Of the bride.
VINO. without NOR n1o dissolved into
hrarty sobs that any less sympathetic
woman than Mr.. Bliss would have fail
I'd 70 understand. but Mrs. Bliss did I'M
derstand. and scrambling over 70 the rock
Ing chair full OF misery. she took the
weeper In her arms. administering apollo
PIES. kisses. pats ana hugs. ana an ex-
planation that won the offended visitor =
interest and attention.
4 was not laughing AZ you" insisted
Mrs Bliss, with an honest countenance.
and yet twinkle Ia one blue eye. but
II you VIII forgive me. al recollection
your remark aboui the paiamas called
up. a funny recolleci ion OF my own bride
hood and some OF IDS difficulties Why
my dear woman. when / married ! ala
Just what ninety-niue out Of every hun
dred normal women DO. ] sought 10 re-
form my husband Of his one and only
fault. untidynsss.
You know. Of course. that all women
are more or less born foreign missionaries,
blessed with a special talent for leading
others back 20 the path Of rectitude. and
! couldu'' bear 20 discover haw on
Johns ldaai character. but. on, how dis
Greet ] was. No one. not even my dear
u,oth4r. should know how John hung his
expensive neekties on the gas fixture. put
his sponge just where ~ would drip en-
the mahogany washsfand. decorated his
pretty dress ngfahle cover on which /
had exp nded my finest skill as a needle
woman vi b hide5us damp shaving tools
kept his top chimouicr drawers in a per
feet pie and hung his night clothes on the
back a. his dressing room door. just ex-
actly where any one coming up the stairs
would see IL waving Wildly In the breeze.
The bliss bower.
NO. indeed. IL was an ugly situation
but I Rugged my secret. making up my
mind thnt with tact and sweetness could
wean him from bis unfortunate habits
First. ! determined 10 arouse ali Of his
pride and interest Ia beauty hy doing up
his dressing room "a. the dalntiest style
with frille1 muslin curtains and fowery
chintz. and then. one hy one. In silent gen
lie object lessons. prove 10 him how easily
his things could be udlly kept.
II worked the whole scheme as a de-
lishtful surprise. In one day. while he
was away a his office. I transformed that
little dressing room into a bower / hung
a lovely little cabinet against the wall. and
put the ugly shaving things IN IL. | went
through the chlffonier drawers placed
the clothes In neat piles and put all the
neckties gloves and little things in
wonderful series OF laquer boxes that
only opened when YOU touched a certain
flower on the lid. I put al his shoes IN a
window seat drnpei IN chiniz that did
not look In the least Ike a stupid. clumsy
shoe box; hung hs night dress on hook
In the closet. and when ! had fnlshed.
from the appearance Of that room. you
could easily have guessed & 10 be a young
girls bower
My labors were just over when a man
on 2 horse dashed M with the news that
mamma wac ill ana wanted me- SO only
had time TO scripblc John % note and
rush Tor the train. ] stayed with mamma
three days. and In tina, time 7 had ten
kilograms OF the stranEest nature from
John. They were ala inquiries about his
clothes. aud some Of them must have
struck out sparks as they came over the
wires. couldn't AZ an understand what
wae the matter. but revelation was
waiting me when / got home
That room that dear little howeri ]
The PitifuI Wreck.
wish YOU could have seen the wrecked
appearance IL presented. I simply sat
down and cried until John arrived. ana
then, instead of folding me In his arms
he stood on the threshold surveying me
and the debris with grim expression
on his poor razor-scarred face In a
frozen tone he inquired n / would kindly
tell him what had done with his cool
razor and strop. Why I had locked hla
neckties and pocket handkerchlefs away
from him IN those devilish boxes ana
what meant hy robhing him OF his shoes
and hiding his night gown
They looked 50 dreadfully untidy