Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

QUettl6nly. Sne W2S Ia Lux aAoS VuAsuae
Of the little mysteriess' detail. Is she
Interpreted It.
'.How kin tell what It was?'' in
ouired Mr.. Mimms, irritably. ''It mout
have BEN most anything. can't tel
what it was"
II found q big wasps. nest up in the
front porch ROOT ,sh., tad mrs Mimma' with
The subject was unfortunate. Mr..
Mimms pushed back his chair with q
harsh, rasping sound. arose in wrath
and stood towering over her.
an?'' he shouted. Whats come over
you? Who are you a-lookin' for. and what
in the nation have you got on your
mind?"
sweet and engaging smile. II was only
a-lookin' for you, Syram." she said. de-
murely.
Now. by all the canons Of the Fireside
Friend. Mr.. Mimms at this juncture
should have begun to act in loverlike
and afrectionate manner. But he didn't.
He stared long, with bulging eyeballs.
Then he turned on his heel and went
out.
On the front porch he sat down in the
chair lately occupied by his wife, and
leaning over. with his elbows on his
knees, gazed at his feet in deep thought.
X
Il never would have dremp itv' he
said at length. II never would have
dremp It! I've always knowed as how
her aunt jimmy went this way. but
Sarah's always ben so quiet and peace
able like. I've hearn as how q disap-
pointment or bein' crossed in anything
brings 1t out. but Sarah is too sensible to
take on so bout a leetle think like that.
hope she amt a-goin' ter git Violent!
She amt that kind. neither, but I've
often hearn her tell bout how her uncle
Mace woke UP one night an found her
aunt jimmy a-leanin' over him with the
cyarvin knife a-screechin' out somethin
bout KILN hawgs.'
Cold sweat suddenly broke out upon the
brow Of Mr.. Mimms. He looked anxious
ly down the road to sec If he could see
along home on his way to supper, but
there was no one in sight. In the house
he could hear his wife singing as she
washed the dishes, and he noted with in
creased anxiety that instead Of Here
I'll Raise My Ebenezer." as usual, she
was humming something about Meet
Me When Daylight Is Fading''-a dttty
he remembered to have heard long years
ago when he was q young man and used
to go across the mountain every other
Sunday to keep comp'ny" with her.
much against the wishes Of his parents.
who wanted him to marry q valley girl.
He had never regretted his choice. She
had been q good and ''biddable'' wife to
the matter Of extravagant notions in the
way of dress, which he had been prompt
to curb.
AS he listened anxiously to the sounds
In the house and watched for the doctor,
Mr.. Mimms mechanically picked up the
Firesfde Friend from where his wife had
dropped 1t, and idly looked at 1t. He dis
approved absolutely of the paper as a
foolish and needless expense, but was in
the habit Of reading 1t for two reasons,
to be able to quote such portions of its
advice to women as seemed to him most
glaringly silly. with scathing criticisms
to his wife. and also to get the money
worth out OF the paper. He reasoned
that two people reading 1t would be
more apt to do this than one.
The picture on the front page caught
his eye, and after gazing with disfavOr
at the simpering young woman he turned
read on. his expression became more
fixed. and presently look of compre-
hension began to dawn on his rugged
countenance, followed by an expression
through once he turned back to the be-
ginning and read it again. At the close
he laid the paper down with a chuckle.
oval, of all the tarnation fool pieces
that ever 1 read this beats EN- re-
marked Mr.. Mimms. 'An' to think she
should have ben actin up to It that
way
Suddenly look Of noble resolution took
possession Of his hard countenance. $50
the French husband keeps his wife sup
piled with flowers and bonbons, does he?
I wonder what in the nation bonbons
are? The flowers seemed too frivolous
even for the frivolity Of the occasion. AS he
idly paved the magazine in his cOnsidera-
ton Of the matter. enlightenment came
to him. On the back cover the picture
Of another young lady engaged in eating,
with great apparent relish, number of
small round objects from a box labeled
Best Assorted Bonbons' caught his eye.
CANDY! he calculated, succinctly, and
he seized his hat and started down to-
ward the village.
When his wife came out on the porch,
some ten minutes later, he was just COM
ing up the steps with a small bullying
bag in his hand. It was Mrs Mimms'
turn to stare. Some half a dozen times
in her married life such a bag had been
presented to her, and this limited expe-
rience told her-or tried to tell her, for
she was too incredulous to believe it
that the bag contained lemon and pepper
mint stick candy.
Here's your bonbons!' said her hus-
in his face than it had worn for twenty
years. ''An' I think I can manage to
git that thar dress for you--ef you won't
make it cost too much,'' he added, pru-
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