The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-11-02

AoOAS uhe IL, Sellu LeanOer dismal
~. me and Johnnie don't ask for
nothin' better than to bask in each
others company, but our wives insists
on keepin' up the maneuvers Of a war
dance the whole endoorin' time"
49," said the fat lady, as gourmet
might tell of favorite way of pre-
pairing truf1es, "it's case of wives %
Eyes, marin, an teeth an nails an
husbands thrown in, when they get
a sight of each others petticoats.''
| 1--WE known sisters in-law not to
agree" helped on the fat lady, by way
of an encouraging parallel.
while deplores usin' such COM
parison to the refinin' and softenin' in
hooence of wimmen, the meetin' of
the OAK ladies by chanst anywheres
mas all the elements of danger and ex-
element that accompanies an Iniun
uprisin..
The travellers looked all manner of
encouragement.
You see, my wife's a great house
keeper; her talent lies''-and here
Leander winked knowingly-'in man
agin' the help"
Lands sakew interrupted the fat
lady. "Why don't you kick?'
Leander sighed softly. II tried to
once. AS an experiment it partook
OF the trustfulness of a mule kickin'
against the stony walls of Badger can
yon. But to resoom about the difficult
ties that split the OAK family. Before
johnnie got mislaid, in that matri-
monlal landslide O his, he herds with
US. Me and him does the work of this
yere shack and my wife just roomi-
mates and gives her accomplishments
as manager full play. She never put
her hand in dirty water any more than
Mrs. Cleveland sittin' up in the White
House parlor. Johnnie done the fancy
cookin'; he could make a pie like any
ones nav, and while you was lost to
the world in the delights of masticatin'
it he'd have all his greasy dishes
washed up and put away
mo wondez: she hated to lose a man
like that" interrupted the fat lady
feelingly
"But he took to pinin' and pro.
!
erick, and he just stampeded round
lookin' for trouble and bleatin' a song
that went:
| "No one to love,
| None to careSs.
'Well, the lady that answers his sig.
nal of distress don't bear none of the
brands of this yere range. She lives
| oct h;
their claims in each others affections
through a matrimonial paper known
as the Heart and Hand. When he sent
| her the money to come out here and get
| married she come as straight as if she
had been mailed with postage
stamp"
'The brazen thing!' said the fat
lady.
"From the start" continued Leah
der, 1.-The two Mrs. Daxes just banker
ed to get at each other, and while as
slave to the fair seX'-here he bowed
to the fat lady and to Miss Carmichael
-"hesitates to use such langwidge III
| their presence, the attitood of them
| two female wimmin shorely reminds
)
just hankerin' to chaw each other.
AT first Johnnie waited on her hand
and foot, and she just read novels and
| played stylish all the time and danced.
She was the hardest dancer that ever
struck this we're trail. Many a man
would have took to dissipation in his
circumstances, but Johnnie just lost
| heart and grew S1attarlv wbv ho,d
leave his dishes go from one day till
| the next
''There's more as would leave their
dishes from one day till the next if
they wasn't looked after.'' And the
wife Of his bosom stood in the door like
a vengeful household goddess. Mr..
OAK made a grab for the nearest
plates.