The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-04-14

nao no t'me 10 look at his sleeping
wife. She was lying on her arm, her
face half covered by the sheet. Her
golden curls were scattered over the
pillow. The alarm clock went off at
five, but she slept on. Tom come in
at eight o'clock hungry and tired. No
breakfast was on the table, no kitchen
fire lit even.
ashes getting more worthless every
day." he growled, making the fire.
Going to the stairs he called loud
ly.
"May, oh May, why don't you get
man some breakfast. Do you think
I'm a steam engine? l can't turn
cook, too.''
Receiving no answer, he hurried up
stairs. There on the table he found
this note:
"Dear Toni have gone home to
dinner, and am going to stay for the
dance. Papa had my old dressmaker
fix me up a pretty dress. I am sorry
you cannot come, too. l saw Betty
Horner yesterday, and she will come
over to cook your dinner. I've made
arrangement with her to come and
live with US, and we will run regular
creamery, if you say so. We will pay
her twenty dollars a month, and she
will take entire charge. This will
give me so much more time and I
really must replenish my wardrobe.
Your Loving Wife"
Tom whistled. ashes a brick!'
he exclaimed. Then he laughed
heartily.
He went to the dance too. He came
upon the scene in time to see Jack
Barton, the young doctor who has re
Gently settled in the village, waltzing
with his wife. She was smiling at
him, too, just as she had the first time
she bad spoken to him. A sudden
longing to be back in the postofice
again almost overpowered him. To
see the roguish laugh in Mays eyes
again! He hated the doctor and could
have cheked him with good will.
He took no notice Of the remarks made
on his clothes, but he mentally vowed
to buy new suit within week. Then
thought struck him. He laughed
again. He was so happy, he did not
care who saw it. When the waltz was
done he went over to May, who greet
ed him pleasantly.
"Im' so glad you came, DEAR" she
said. She noticed something in his
eyes she had never seen before, and
she, too, grew strangely happy.
just then Doctor Barton came up:
"May l have the next one?" he asked
her.
"No, thank you, for my husband is
here now, and will dance with him.
she replied.
II cannot dance with boots on"
Tom answered, "but we can sit them
out"
CDR. Barton" he continued,"I want
your advice. Don't you think Mrs.
Davis needs change. I've conclud.
ed she has had too much farming, and
so we're going down to the city for six
or eight weeks"
"a good idea," the doctor replied
dryly. "And don't forget the concert
halls"
Two days later Tom gave his wife
two hundred dollars.
OTIS for some dresses; It's my Christ.
mas present.
She thanked him and smiled at him
just as she used to do.
He took Ler in his arms then, and
she cried her heartache away.
"We will take our wedding trip now
won't we, pet?' he said, calling her by
her fathers name tor her.
"But the farm and cows?' she ask.
ed.
"Oh, I'll put off buying the wood
land and take Joe Burns on. He's
competent and can look after things
when I'm away"
A safe blower dosen't blow about it
later.
Self-made men never boast of their
ancestors.
A diplomat is man who shuts up
when he has said enough.
Religion is still worn as clock BY
lot of fashionable people.
1t is easier to get out of a job than
it IS to get out of trouble.