The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

the food and had a playful way of
taking a rhouthful of a dish and then
demanding scornfully: DO you call
this soup or pudding" or whatever it
was.
Mrs. A stood this as long as she
could and finally one day she deter
mined on stopping IL. She printed neat
placards and as each dish was
brought on to the table. 1t bore upon II
the legend This is bread" This is
roast" This is potatoes" Mr., A.
gave one look at it and the signifi-
canoe of the thing. and also OF his
daily insults to his wife. dawned upon
him and never again was he guilty of
such rudeness.
Another case knew. in which the
wife used her wit to compel justice
from her husband, was that of an ex-
tremely beautiful woman, with a SUI
rerb figure, who was married to man
who was very penurious to her. Fine
clothes she had in plenty, for 1t graft
fled her husbands vanity 10 hear his
wife spoken of as handsomely dressed.
but never penny did the wife have
that she could spend as she pleased.
This fell all the harder on her, because
she had an old mother, who was very
POOR, and it broke the daughters
heart that she could do nothing to
help her and soften the old woman's
last days. Finally, after many CONVEX
sations that had ended in bitterness
and rancor, on the subject of an al
lowance. the wife calmly announced to
her husband that she had secured a
place in a shop as a cloak model.
Il am tired of being a beggar and
dependent" she said simply, land /
am not going to do it another day. l
can get so much money as clerk in
a store and not work as hard as I DO
seeing about keeping your house.
Moreover, the money will be mine, to
do what l please with, and l shall
know the Joy of receiving 1t without
being insulted. If you consider that my
services are worth that much / viii
gladly stay at home. but L tell you
right now that this is a business strike.
and / mean what I say. These are my
terms, and you can take the offer or
leave it," And the man, whose pride
would have been touched to the quick,
and whose business standing imperiled
by the sight of his wife standing be-
hind a counter, paid the money and
never thereafter questioned her right
to an Independent pocketbook.
Another woman, married to the
never-speak- at-honne sort of husband
claims to have cured him by an over
dose of his own medicine. She was a
CHEEKY little body, who believed in all
ways meeting her husband with a
smile, and regaling him on tid-bits of
news she had picked up during the
day. For long time she used at his
coming to rush to the door and en-
brace a man, who turned a cheek to
her kiss that was as responsive as q
craven image, and to keep up the con-
versation she would do monologue at
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an occasional grunt. At last, however,
she decided that it was a little too
much to expect one person to 10 all
the work Of making home happy. and
so turned upon her husband with his
own weapon. She dropped the evening
kiss. She lapsed into silence as pro-
found as the sphinx. She grunted in
her turn, when he asked. What Is the
matter? What has happened?" oh"
replied his wife, II am only treating
you as you do me. You do nothing to
make the house bright and pleasant,
why should II" 1t was a brand new
idea to the man. and he had the sense
and Justice to see where he had failed
and to make good on his mistakes.
The agent stepped lightly down the
garden path. says Clara Belle in her
had been a good day. The cottagers
were ambitious this year. The house
next door had bought $50 rose plants,
and down the street he had an order
for thorn hedge. If his luck held the
folks of this house ought to do some
thing to keep up the record of the
street Probably a hedge, Towering
thorn, to Guido the crowd down street.
He rat-tatted the knocker in a brisk
yet discreet manner, not aggressively,
yet not timidly. One sign of a good
agent Is the way he announces his
presence by bell or knocker Mr.. Slim
kins himself opened the door The
agent knew the name was Slimkins,
for that was on the door. He guessed
this might be the old man, because he
looked more worried than a servant
would; besides. the house was hardly
the sort to have a man servant So
he sailed right in.
"Mr. Slimkins," said he, 81 heard YOU
were wanting something In the nur-
sery line"
"What?" shrieked Slimkins.
Another sign of a good agent is
never to get ratified. no matter how a
trade seems 20 be going.
Il can give you almost anything
there is in that line; II you will allow
me I will show you my catalogue
and"
mot much!" yelled Slimkins. 1--WE
have everything in the nursery line we
are going to have, and more than we
want"
Nothing so improves a home"
echoed the agent, getting back just a
mite.
Simkins followed him, yelling:
THAT is as each one thinks. Right
here have nuardnna
and plenty. Thank you, you can take
your nursery things elsewhere, and
take them quick"
The agent didn't lose his nerve He
bowed and smiled as nicely to the
closed door as If Sinkins had bought
three badges. But his pride was a lit.
tie hurt. At the gate he bumped into a
man who was jumping from a buggy
The man had a small handbag. The
man grabbed him.
us everything all right?' he gasped
Are they all a1ive?'
"Simkins is" said the agent, grim.
ly.
The man plunged toward the from.
door. hollering over his shoulder:
"Only Simkins! Great Scott!"
In the drug store at the corner the
agent learned the SImkins family had
just been augmented by tripiets, and
wondered less.
AT the afternoon session of the Ma
tional Association of Dancing Mas
ters, says the Milwaukee Sentinel,
Robert f. Thuma of Pittsburg, Pa,
expounder of a new theory of grace.
gave a demonstration on 1.-THE Grace
Of Man" exempIifying the grace that
No woman's happi.