Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-09-07

want to see 1t. 1t told me that Uncle
Joe Spencer had left me seven hun
| dred dollars, and that he would send
IL to me as soon as we could finish
some formal settings. | told him I'd
come and get 1t myself, and / did, and
I've spent it all, every cent, except
! four dollars and seventy-six cents.
and, Abram Peabody, for once in my
life, I've had a good time. I've had
my fling, same's you men do. You
had your good time when you was be
tween twenty and thirty-ten solid
years Of It. You've told me many a
time how you blowed in every cent
you earned And you like to think of
1t now!
give had my time between thirty
and forty, that's all the difference, and
thank goodness had chance to get
1t at all"
The husband sat before her, his
head bowed dejectedly on his breast.
! At the mention Of the seven hundred
dollars he caught his breath, and AT
the confession to have spent 1t all, he
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length he got control Of his inward tor.
mont enough to ask, ENORMOUSLY,
"But how under the sun Lizzie, could
you manage to fool away from fifty to
hundred dollars day, I'd like to
| know"
"Well, now I'll tell you, Abe" said
his wife sweetly, ga longs you weren't
there I'll go through each day, and
you can wish you'd been there, you
know | got my money and learned
that 1t all come from that mining
stock Uncle Joe owned in the woods.
They'd lately been worth something
mines paying, now. I'll have little
every quarter-but you'll not handle
It," she said under her BREATH
after I'd got my money ! went to
the best hotel and that meant So
day, right along. Then ! made my
plans. I spent the rest in having a
real good time OF it-and did. Well
first, It was get some decent clothes
saw woman in the dining-room
that was dressed as I thought I'd like
to be- so | followed her to the parlor
and told her | was stranger, and
asked her where to go to get some
things a good deal like hers. She
was real kind and offered to show me
when she found | was a stranger in
town.
80 that morning there was $50 70"
this gown-that's what they call It
there, and another $40 for boots and
gloves,-now there was $40 right
there; and then there was hat and
underclothes and Turkish bath, a
lunch and theater in the evening, and
ride in the afternoon, and we did
1t all up brown, tell you, Abe And
then | got my life insured for the
children--she was life insurance
agent-and so you see how the money
few, don't you?" and she laughed
ightheartedly.
Well, Mrs. Peabody told on for two
solid hours joyous details of that de-
lightful stay.
Second day." she said, naively, |
when | found Mrs. Bond knew so
much better than | did about spending
money, just handed over $50 to her
to do the paying with, and we saw
everything two respectable women
could see After that every day did |
the same. Mrs. Bond said she'd make
me n visit soon, Abe,-she seemed to
like me real we'll"
Day after day had passed In happy
succession If rides, theaters, lunches,
galleries, hts of all kinds new to
country I. es. Shopping with full
purse, and with one who knew the
stores at her side, had filled her de-
lightful hours each morning. It had
been n long, delightful Arabian
Nights dream, and poor little Mrs.
Peabody sighed when she had told 1t
all.
Then she told how, when the last
hundred dollars came in view, she had
called a halt loaded her trunk with
presents for mother and kindred, -
gone with all her lovely toggery to
the old Wisconsin country house for
n week, to dazzle and delight dear
eyes that had not seen her for many
SHT,-DeCaHSe ADe cOulun alIOrd
It,"
Poor Abe. what was there for him
to do? Before hin. was almost his
pretty young bride come back again.
He remembered the years of uncom-
planning hard work and self-deniaI,-
he saw the wife, slavery as he had
never seen 1t before,-he even forgot
the lost $500, and lifting his little
wife In her dainty gray broadcloth he
tossed. her In the air and said
after ali, Sis, | believe you laid |
out the $500 pretty well. 1t seems you
brought back the girl married Is
years ago, didn't know twas so
hard, Sis; Wen try to make 1t pleas.
anter after TIL"
He was interrupted by ring at the |
bell and two minutes later his wife
was saying: Mrs. Bond, this Is my |
husband, Abe, this is the friend
told YOU Of"