The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-12-22
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Pining, then, for the seclusion that
dances attendance upon the jewellers
in flats, we moved from the country to
the city, gayly, happily and with
never thoupht Of care, for, as men
toned to Josephine and as Josephine
mentioned to me, the quiet and peace
of the country are qualities similar
to the heat and anger of a frozen
custard, and we would free ourselves
forever from the barking of dogs by
night and the clucking of hens by day,
to say nothing of the growing of the
lusty chanticleer and the intrusion of
gossipy tongues; and as told JOS
ephine further, and as Josephine
further told me, there is no place
where comfort and privacy can be Sc
cured like as in the heart of a great
city, where curiosity counts not and
inquisitiveness is not, and one may
live the life that one desires, unsee-
ing and unseen. For ever since the
failure of her nursery stock, her
grapes, her berries and her shrub
berries, my Josephine had languished,
paled and pined, and knew that UNI
less we sought a happier spot her life
would be wasted thing and her
tender heart would beat, alas! no
more.
"Augustus!"
MY love?"
Augustus! | had two callers to-
day. The strangest women!"
Thus my Josephine upon my re-
turn from the lnarts of trade in the
evening of the first day after we had
settled in our apartment and had be-
gun to live the life that we desired,
unseeing and unseen.
The strangest women!n repeated
she, my love, and her eyes were large
with bright amaze and her lips quiv-
cred, whereby knew that thereby
hung a tale. "The first one rang the
doorbell in the morning and asked me
ifI'd lend to her saucerful Of salt
She stayed an hour, Augustus, and
she told me all. =
All, my love?"
Augustus, she told ME all. That
is to say" added Josephine thought
fully, "all except herself. The second
woman told me that"
She, too, wished to borrow sau-
cerful Of
mo, Augustus She lives in the
apartment above, and handkerchief
which was drying in her kitchen blew
! out of her window and lodged upon
our fire escape. When I went for it
could not find it; it had blown some
where else, but she said, Never mind
it, then and she stayed an hour,
Augustus
To which made my ever fond
Nreply:
my love?'
Augustus! Be careful to whom
you speak in these apartments!
y, Whereupon I pressed her for en-
Enlightenment, which she vouchsafed
me not.
Augustus!
"My loye?"
"Augustusl I know what every
one has for dinner!"
Thus said my Josephine to me, sit
ting at the dining room table on the
evening of the second day after we
had made our bow to life in the heart
of q groat city, pining for the privacy
of an apartment and seeking to live
the life that we desired, unseeing and
unseen. And answering then the
query of my countenance, she whis-
pered:
First floor front, roast beef, spin
ach and beets first floor rear, beef
steak, onions and potatoes; second
floor front, leg of lamb, mint sauce
and broccoli; second floor rear"
Whereat l stopped her with a ges-
ture of absolute helplessness, saying;
"Tell me"
ling ! !
SSH.
Leaning then over she whispered:
Every one can hear what every
1 one says The walls are thin.
And reverting to tho mystery of
4 every ones dinner, she whispered:
saw them on the dumbwaiter. !"
And leaning over still further, her
large with the news she brought,
e(she breathed: ~
II smelled them cooking, tool'
And almost in a pantomime:
"The folks above have corned beef
and cabbagel And they go in strong
for cheesei"
Thus lived We in the privacy Of our
apartment.
Augustus
My lover"
Augustus The ianitor and his
helper were in Dur kitchen all day to-
day. A pipe.@
Thus said my Josephine in the
evening Of the third day after our ar
rival into the life of a great city.
"A pipe?' said.
sLeaked!s whispered she, my JOS
ephine. "Thoy had to put everything
out into the hall, and even then they
didn't finish it. They'll be back again
tomorrow ;"
The next day was Saturday. and
returning early home 7 helped to en-
terrain the janitor and his assistant,
kholding their tools for them, handing
3thcm tho Gil can and performing other
Elittio offices, while on swinging
bridge in front Of the house a painter