The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-18

copyright. 1906, by Joseph B.. Bowles,)
Azalea Nugent wuz a dreamy absent
minded helpless sort of a girl, always
with not much gumption about her. |
name that struck in; you know what
fiutterin' delicate lookin' posies azaleas
be, nothin' what you car call solid and
reliable about 'em.
But she wuz thought well ON when
a girl and when she married, her hus-
band, John Powers, jest worshiped her.
You know it is these helpless actin,
babyish, onfaculized sort of wimmin
that a man has to take care on that
git ten times more love and pettln'
than wives do that STRAIN right round
into the work and go ahead and take
first rate care of their house and hus-
bands, specially if the dependent lean
in sort are good lookin', and they gem
orally be. Azalea wuz real pretty, sort
O confidin' and sweet lookin'.
Well, she'd been married five years
and they wuz gittin' along we'll. They
lived in a pretty house; they had half
of a house that belonged to a wilder.
1t wuz convenient and pleasant and
handy to Johns work and he wuz at
tached to the place. BY their havin'
half the house they didn't have to
climb the stairs much. They had a
good large settin' room below, a coy
dining room, a big airy bedroom and a
mani 1jtf1n lyitnhnn with nunpu nnn-
v%enience, and two bedrooms and a
SEWN room above with plenty OF
closets above and below.
Well, they had lived there in peace
and happiness, for the wide gaps that
yawned in Azalea's housekeepin' at
first, wuz filled up with Johns love
and patience and she wuz b%eginnin' to
be a good cook and housekeeper; the
days havin' passed by when she put
dry beans and q piece of salt pork
in the oven and wondered helplessly
why they wuzn't juicy and tender;
and mixed her bread up and baked
1t without risin' and then wept BE-
cause it didn't taste like mas bread.
She wuz a good cook and John, who,
like any hard workin' man, loved his
v%ittles, wuZ quite happy about it. She
wuZ a very good housekeeper, too, her
pride and interest havin' been rOusIed
up afresh by her sreat-aunt havin' be-
~queathed to her some handsome old
fashioned solid mahogany furniture
that had been her great-great-grand-
mothers; also from the same source
getting some vases, homely but valua-
BILE, too good to use, but worth every
thing to her to look at and talk over
with other wimmen who materially en-
Wed her articles her ancestors used
200 years ago. 1t put a stamp OF solid
responsibility Upon her like a coat Of
arms. This furniture and the vases
wuz like the apples of her eyes, no
p~rofane hand did she ever allow to
touch EN-, only in the way OF reverant
admiration.
She wuz also ~learnin' (slow) to be
equinomical and John had begun to
lay up money. He had got quite a
few hundred in the savings bank and
they wuz both lookin' forward to their
COLE, which wuz to own a little farm
and coy home in the country. They
had two pretty little children, twins,
named by Azalea, Eglantina Azalea
and Aubrey De We're John, and they
didn't want EN- to grow UP in city
streets, but wanted EN- to enjoy the
blessin's of pure air and sunshine and
the green fields of the country.
Well, things wuz in this condition
when one spring about the first OF
April Azalea got it into her head Git