The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-21
MIR. AND MRS. JoBsoN.

"New neighbors, eh ?" said Mr.
| Jobson the other morning as he paus
ed on the steps Of his house befor,
setting off for his office and nodded
toward the furniture vans backed uI
to the curb of the new house on the
left that had only recently been com
pleted.
so / observe" said Mrs. Jobson
Then Mr.. Jobson went on downtown
about his business.
When he came home that afternoon
he had it all made up for Mrs. Jobson
Having it made up for Mrs. Jobsor
was not in the least unusual. In fac
it was so common that had he not be
gun to harp on some subject as soor
as he reached home his good wife
would have thought him seriously i'll
"Met the new neighbors, of course
by this timer" said he to Mrs. Jobsor
almost as soon as he had hung his hat
and coat on the rack.
"Well, I haven't been in"
Not met them yet !' exclaimed
Mr.. Jobson in well-simulated tones ot
surprise. "Why, that's funny!
expected to find them here for dinner
when 1 got home. Not losing your
neighborly grip on anything, are you,
Mrs. Jobson?"
"Now, you know that"
"Well, we'll, we'll !" said Mr.. Job.
son, "a whole eight hours have pass
ed since the vans of the new neigh
bors' truck hove to on the horizon,
and you haven't got real chummy and
thick with 'em yet. hope you re
not ailing, Mr.. Jobson ?"
please don't be so rid"
Anyhow, if didn't find them all
here at dinner, I surely thought you d
be in there on terms of unbendable
friendship with the female boss of the
house when got home. Why, aren' t
you wasting valuable time? Sup
-nosisle tteu4 fs,d J-,.-.4lso
move away, and there you'll be-you
won t have known them, and had 'em
running in here in sets of fours when
I wanted to read my paper, and
eff you'll only let me"
But Mr.. Jobson wasn't doing any
letting. He had the whole thing all
thought out and rehearsed, and he
didn't want to overlook any chances.
Thought T. find the young ladies
Of the new family-are there any
young ladies Pin here, anyhow"
he broke in, telling you how they
were going to have their new spring
foulards made, or asking your advice
about their pin-headed beaus. Can't
be possible that you haven't already
succeeded in inspiring them with con-
fdence, and learned the whole his
tory of their lives from their own lips
a dozen times over, can it? Has the
lady at the head of the new plant
next door touched you up for little
snip Of tea, until the II pounds she
has ordered from the grocer's comes
yet? Not leaned over on the back
fence and asked you for the loan oi
your fiat irons, you say, yet? Why.
you really can't like your new neigh
bors, Mrs. Jobson !"
"You know perfectly we'll that III
not in the hab-"
Ibid understand you to paradox.
ically say that their dining-room fur
niture was a sight and not fit to bt
seen ?" inquired Mr.. Jobson, enjoy
ing himself right smart. ooh, we'll
you can gradually lead up to the
point, you know, where you can cajole
the lady chief of the outfit into bull
doing her husband into buying new
dining furniture, you know
That'll be easy. Die say that she
taught you a new kind of tatting this
morning? No? Oh, 1 thought
By the way, if we've simply got tc
60 in there to a euchre party tonight
you may as we'll have the girl pres:
my evening coat-it's wrinkled
There's one thing, though-all the
rest of our neighbors for four block:
around in all directions'll be jealous
won't they, if you pay this new buncl
SO much attention from the go-oh
Did l understand you to say that one
of the young sons of the family is ar
idiot, and that the mother wears {
false front? No? Well, though
! that yOu-'
"How fond you are becoming o
the sound of your own"
"Did the lady who runs the new
plant tell you that great sorrow rest
on her life by reason of the fact tha
her husband is so lacking in regarC
for the higher and nobler that he eat
lemon meringue pie with a Tablespoon
and falls to sleep after dinner anc
snores? She didn't tell you that yet
eh? Oh, but she will, though
Give her time. S'pose you told he
that your man didn't care much abou
Nirvana and Delsarte and reincarna
ton and the influence of environment
and tiddledywinks, either, Ell? That
a great sorrow on your life, too, ism
it? l s'pose you told them how t.
hang the pictures up, eh9 And tol'
'em all about the rest of the people OF
the block-whom to cultivate ant
whom to knock? Did you say any
thing while you were in there abou
that perfectly lovely family that NOV
ed in three doors to the right, tha
you got on terms of findissoluble thick
ness with in 20 minutes after the las
moving van had moved off, and tha
YOU got sore on and decided wouldn'
do inside of three or four days? Di