The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-06
TIMOTHY'S TUTOR.
by EMMA DIXON.

We were married happily at lasI' az
err trying to win her through mo-
moons. How l met her does hoI n"'
fer. Sufficient for us to kno" VIZ
lived and loved together, and "ou,u W
so It'll the end of time. EVerylhins
glided along smoothly, no mothel-in
law or debts to bother US; and nau De
gun to think no man ever had "lle liNo
mine, so yielding, persuasive ana lnah-
aging.
It is true, she had experience IN "eo-
lock before, but l did not nina tnat' do
thought it only added to her cnainS'
and 1 often wondered if her former NUS
band appreciated her as did. On! NO"
l pitied him for losing her, ana con-
graduated myself on winning such d
prize.
And then, when our little f1axen halreu
boy came, l named our home PARADISE.
Our first difference was over naming
him. 1 wanted him called Jonathan Syl-
vester, after my two grandparents anu
my wife wanted him called Peter Elllas'
after her two brothers.
my dear Minerva" said l, how
could you want to handicap our boy with
such a name?"
But she answered CURLY; and then, Tor
the first time, 1 saw she had will OF her
own.
"Not if he were to inherit millions
would I name him after your grandpa
rents"
So, after heated discussion, we COM
promised, and called him Timothy.
So two, three, five years went by as
happily as before, and Timothy grew; and
Timothy must have tutor at home, for
how could we consent to send our Tim
othy to a school with other children?
After consulting many, selected one,
a long-haired, low-voiced, quizzical-
looking, though seemingly well-bred
and courteous man; and as our
boy was never refractory, all went
along swimmingly, except that my
wife would always try to snub
him, much to my embarrassment.
And at the table, she would ignore
him entirely. He, in return, would ap-
pear to be as listless as she was, in her
company, never appearing to notice her
affronts or scowls.
Minerva, my DEAR" I ventured to
say one day, after witnessing her indif-
ference to him at dinner, '1et us send the
man away rather than demean ourselves
so by sighting him in our own house.
You can surely see the man is gentle
man; and how he suffers or tolerates
your contempt for him, I cannot see."
At which she began to cry, saying she
wished he had never come to the house,
as it had never seemed the same since
he arrived; and asked me how 1 would
like it If she paid him as much atten-
ton as she did myself.
So we kissed and made up. she .nr1r
islng a. the same time to be more $50
ciable in the future to our tutor. And
let me say, l felt paid and gratified when
entered the breakfast room the next
morning, to see them sitting at the table
together, talking SO friendly. CHOW"
thought I, Minerva has at last thawed,
and there will be no more coldness;"
and Twas more than pl3ased when, after
dinner that night, and me cloth was re-
moved, to hear my wife ask him to take
a hand at whist, which he did gladly.
thought how timely was my advice,
and made up my mind that I would al
ways have a word in season hereafter
Time wore on. Our boy grew bright,
my wife giving me no more cause to-
complain, being always lively and pleas
ant. Our tutor was entertaining and
brilliant. When walk in the country
was proposed, was voted the dullest of
them all
One day l asked my wife the cause of
such a change of affairs, and she an
sWered, indifferently: Really, 1 do
not know how to please you, for you
wanted me to be more polite to our tu-
TOR, and now that am, you are not sat-
isfed."
Matters grew worse and worse until
one night I decided that this must be
stopped, too, and that would be master
OF my house once more, and in cogitat-
ing, said the fellow must be in-bred,
after taking all my wife's snubs so meek
y, now that she is polite to him he feels
an unbearable Importance; and after
l finally decided TO dis
charge him, telling him I thought a
change would do our Timothy good; con-
my wife took him to a select
school in neighboring village, propos-
ing that she stay awhile to see how he
thrived, to which 1 willingly acceded,
knowing that he would be shy among
strangers at first.
Can you imagine my loneliness, and
my glad surprise when my wife wrote
hat she would come home that night,
and would bring friend with her?
| will admit was little hurt that
he wife of my bosom, after being away
10 long, should want to bring anyone
lome with her; but made up my mind
[ would try and make it pleasant for
hem, whoever it was, and perhaps they
would not stay long anyway
But what was my dismay when saw
my wife entering our home with our old
,utor, and introducing him as her former
husband:
Well, l could not blame Minerva. Who
could? She did not get him to come to
IS, knew nothing of it, and was it not
that made them friendly? fl had not,
LII would have been well yet, as she had