Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27

been better if she had been less pa
tient.
perhaps if | had been sharper
to do more" Lorinda sometimes said
to herself She always returned to
her own home with a sense of humilia-
ton after visiting at the homes of her
neighbors. 1t mortified her to have
her friends visit her. She never asked
even the minister to tea because her
dining-room was as unfinished as the
other rooms. 1t leaked when it
rained, and it was one of the din
ingroom windows that was boarded
up. Levi had been aiming" to take
away the boards, and put in sash and
glass, ever since he had married Lor-
india
That which made it all the harder for
Lorinda to bear was the fact that Levi
was really very skillful with tools of
every kind. Lorinda, seeking with true
wifely devotion to find something to
praise in Levi, was not little proud
of the fact that Levi had the reputa-
ton of being the "handiest' man in
the neighborhood. He could turn
his hand to anything and was in de-
mand by all the neighbors when there
was any kind of 'tinkering" to be
done, and no man worked more
steadily at a task than he when Levi
was working for others.
II declare, Lorinda, / wouldn't stand
it if l were you," said Mrs. Hollis
outspoken sister, Mrs. Emmeline
Taft, one day, when she had come over
to spend the day with Lorinda, and
had found her carrying water from the
well of a neighbor quarter of a
mile distant, because the Holt pump
had been out of repair for week, and
Levi had not yet ''got around" to re-
pairing it.
HE draws the water up with pail
and a rope when he is here; but it
makes me so dizzy to lean over a well
that | don't dare draw water that
way" Lorinda had explained to her
sister. HE aims to fix the pump in
day or two"
Eyes, and like enough he'll keep on
aiming to fix it for the next month"
said Emmeline, thoroughly out of pa
thence. Her own husband was one
of the most energetic and methodical
of men. Everything was in spick-
and-span order, and as complete as it
could be made.
81 think that see Judson Taft al
lowing pump to go unrepaired for a
week or even a day." said Emmeline.
"And Levi Holt wouldn't be so careless
if you were not SO easy your own SELF
Lorinda. Do you know what would
do if were in your shoes, Lorinda
Holt?"
81 don't know as do, Emmeline."
well, I'll tell you just what l
would do. l would pack up and leave
this old place, and tell Levi Holt that
when he had finished it up complete
what I'd do. And would keep my
word. | wouldn't come back until the
last nail was driven that is needed.
and the last bit of work done that
needs to be done to finish up this
house and barn"
ooh, Emmeline!"
81 just would, Lorinda'
"And do you think that that would
make Levi finish things up?"
well, / guess it would. Anyhow,
I'd give it a try. I'll own up that he
thinks sight of you-more than most
husbands think Of their wives when
they have been married 20 years"
81 never was away from Levi more
than three days since we were mar
r;ed. and that was when you and me
went over to Zoar to Aunt Lyddy Pea
body's funeral"
Eyes, and Levi acted as II you had
been away three years when we got
home" said Emmeline.
There was a suggestion Of bitterness
In Emmeline's voice, for she was a
wife who had endured the sorrow OF