Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-11
Fiction

the first thing after breakfast am 60.
ing round in cab to borrow Mrs.
Evans epergne, which will quite furn-
ish the table and always looks par
ueularly handsome when surrounded
by pink cakes. No, / don't fancy
pink cakes because of the red roses
Dear, dear what a lot one has to
think Of
Yes, dear"
And you're no help, John, not the
leat help in the world. think the
India rubber plant would look better
IN the window here than in the draw
ingroom. Besides, people are So ac-
customed to seeing my India rubber
plant in the drawing room that
when they see one here, they will
think we have got two"
Mr.. Babcock then made a sugges-
tion- He made it slowly, deliberate.
ly, as though conscious of its valut
My dear, I've got good idea: an
excellent idea. Why don't you en-.
tertain habitual drunkards? They
would think you had double the mum.
Der of drawing rooms and double
number of front doors"
L think that is a most absurd and
unrenned suggestion. have no
sympathy with man who takes no
interest In entertaining can not
understand man who doesn't want
TO see his friends around him.
On his defense Mr.. Babcock 70.
piled:
# ! only knew the names of nv
friends | should not mind being
surrounde~ by them"
Well, it is your own fault, John.
If you took the trouble to come to
my at homes you would get to know
them all. And. what is more, we
should get asked out a: great deal
oftener than we are.to fetes at the
Botanical gardens and SO on But
as it is, my friends only know me
and they scarcely know whether you
exist or not. Ii they saw you am
sure they would like you-because
you can behave very socially wnen
you like and there are few men who
look nicer than you when you have
got on your frock coat and your
shepherds plaid trousers"
No, dear"
when he had finished his breakfast
and was leaving the house after
lighting cigar his wife again found
fault with him
John, John. / can not understand
why you buy expensive cigars and
throw away the band so that no one
knows that You are not smoking a
penny Pickwick. .
She took UP the red and gold gar.
ter OF the thraepenny Donna Baeno'
and added: You don't care what
people mink of you"
With broa movement he patteo
her on the back and said:
AS long as my little puss cat
thinks of her bold, bad John am per
fectly content
She shrank back protesting:
John, John. Before the servants.
any SHOW of affection is so utterly
unrenned.
'Confound it. You've got refine
ment and society on the brain. 1
never knew the two went together be.
FORE.
1t was one of her great griefs that
he did not read ally of the journals
devoted to the private lives of public
people. where as shs was storehouse
of inaccurate knowledge about the
aristocracy She knew where all
the duchesses spent their week ends
and she knew to yard the precise
distance from the Achilles statue
which was just the right" place to
sit at church parade.
Having extracted a reluctant prom
Use from her husband that he would
arrive at about o'clock, she closed
the door and busted herself in prepar.
ing to receive rank and fashion.
She shifted and reshifted every
piece of furniture SO that it should
appear to the best advantage Every
possible effect of drapery and sofa
cushion was rehearsed Eventually
she satisfied herself that no single
belonging of hers would be invisible
to her guests.
With Mrs. Babcock entertaining
was mania. Indeed, she spent so
much money in entertainment that
she had none left for pleasure. She
begrudged the purchase of dress circle
seats because an extra Is shillings
In flowers or pink cakes would pro-
duce considerable effect at her at
homes. Besides It was always pos
sible to pretend that one did not
thing great theater was safe in
case of fire or to say that one did
not care for such and such an act or
never went TO see HON or to say that
it was impossible to get the third row
of the stalls and that John would
never sit anywhere else or to tell
any other sort Of lie and trust to
luck.
The drawing room was packed with
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