Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-07-23
Sporting n ews
The PEACEMAKER
LITTLE STORY OF HOW THE
TRIBUNE RESTORED PEACE
IN THE FAMILY.

1t is a dredful thing to get up in
the morning with back ache and
your head aching fit to split and SO
nervous you could almost fly if you
heard pin drop. If ever you have
felt that way you know how to pity
Mrs. Limdick. .-
On the morning my story begins
she felt just that way, besides the
baby had kept her awake all night
fretting with his teath and he was
still cross and fretful this morning.
She had all the work todo for a
family of six, and she was not very
strong when she was well.
John and Fred, the school boys,
had arisen noisy and boisterous and
she was glad when she finally sent
them to school. Susie had torn her
dress and had to be dressed again
and her work had gone wrong all
dy. Now it was supper again and
Mrs. S1imdick was about ready to
give up and go to bed without get
ting it. :'~
When Mr.. Slimdick came home
that night the baby was crying at
the rate of sixty miles an hour and
Susie, who had committed some dep
relation AMI got the customary
spanking, was doing the same, and
John and Fred were wrangling over
their toys, while Mrs. Slimdick, who
had started nervously as the door
opened, overturned the skillet OF
fried meat on the stove and the
grease flew all over her newly
scrubbed floor, while the odor from
the stove was almost unbearable.
Now if there is anything that a
man likes it is to come home to a
smiling wife, to be met by sweet
laughing little baby, to see a delic.
ious supper ready on the table, and
to sniff an atmosphere of happiness
and contentment. And Mr.. Slim
dick was exception to the rule
so he jerked off his coat angeerily
and threw it on its accustomed nail
exclaiming to his half-dead partner
@Holy smoke! if this isn't mess fol
man to come home and see! Wha'
on earth did you spill that greast
for? And why isn't supper ready
Why don't you keep that kid from
4 yelling?"
/ Now it was the last straw which
broke the came1's back, SO Mrs
Slimdick burst into tears and re
1 piled Utterly:
1 eff I lad known all that T know
now I never would have got married
Here left home of luxury will
servants tc wait on me and was low
ed and petted and went where ant
when / pleased to be married to al
old bear and stay at home and xii
| myself working for him and a whole
1 pack of children. I wish I was dead
SO there" "a "#-.%.A
1t is a common belief that womer
will have the last word, but the mer
are always trying to get it, so Mr.
Slimdick was ready with an angry re
tort, when the postman rang the dool
bell. <=
"Got any mail?" was Mr.. Slimdick's
greeting. ~.
J Nothing but the Bismarck Trib
une," said the postman.
Mr.. Slimdick closed the door ant
seated himself with the treasured
sheet in his hands. Something caugh
his eye, and he read it aloud, and al
the family laughed heartily. Then III
read all the page of jokes to his
laughing family. He then sifted tt
another column, and read many things
that sent them off on a train of solemn
thought.
i He next read the "doings" of The
neighborhood.
BY this time the baby was contentedI.
sucking his thumb, John, Fred ant
Susie were sitting quietly on chairs
the grease had been cleaned away
supper was placed on the table, Mrs
Slimdick had forgotten her aches o.
| different places and dimensions, ant
| Mr.. slimdick was over the grumps.
Supper was over, the dishes washed
| the children tucked snugly in bed
rand Mrs. slimdicK came and stood be
side her husbands chair.
He placed his arm around her dain
/ ty waist and drew her down on hi.
Rp. s@
1t was a shame for great, BIZ
man like me to be so ugly to a sWeet
little womantIe best woman. too
that God ever let walk in shoe leath
er," he said. Fl "a
| Mrs. Slimdick placed her arm around
his neck and nestled her cheek III
close to his and replied, while hel
eyes were deWy: Il consider myself
fortunate to get the best husband ii
/ all the world y