Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-10-12

NOC q WOrQ. Sue nelCuer COlO me
that l had drawn a prize nor a blank
in the matrimonial lottery. She in
formed me that she could do nothing
more till your return, when she would
make arrangements to observe us
when we were together"
"Was she a little wizened up thing
with her mouth full of gold teeth?'
No"
Then there was a one eyed creature
at B. that summer Who
"I'm sure you could not guess who
was Miss Blossom. She told me that
she was never about you, always main
tanning a distance.
"But, to go on with my story, that
lonely summer at last came to an end,
and you returned. We kissed coldly,
asked each other perfunctorily what
kind of a summer each had spent; then
you busted yourself unpacking, while
I Rugged the children and consoled
myself for my failure to elicit q loving
word from you with their innocent
prattle.
"You had not been long at home be-
fore Miss Blossom wrote me that she
did not need to Study us together since
she had studied you separately and
one of her deputies had been studying
me during your absence. She was
therefore ready to commence, her treat
ment or, rather, to continue it, for it
had really begun when I had called
49,. So ecso ,C11r Tho 0,,ok rr1
scription she would give me was this:
Whenever you have a disagreement
with your wife, instead Of pursuing it
ask yourself if you could not have pre-
vented it by silence, a soft word, a
joke or some other genial expedient.
In other words, for the fault look with
in YOURSELF
"'By Jove! 1 exclaimed on reading
this. If she can only get Florence to
act on that with me I won't need the
prescription
"Then the absurdity Of attributing
all the fault to you occurred to me,
and 1 laughed"
"Why, do you know, DEAR" the wife
interrupted, that seamstress l had for
two weeks after my summer at B. said
the very same thing to me that your
domestic healer said to you."
Il WONDER" remarked the husband
%rehectively, 'if she could have been a
deputy"
"And 1 told her that l wished some
one would make that remark to my
husband"
did your"
"Was that all the treatment your
clever Miss Blossom gave us"
II don't know. l wonder If it was"
"Did you ever learn the identity Of
the deputy who observed you during
the summer l was at b."
mo, and l don't believe l was OBJ
served"
care you sure Miss Blossom went to
B. and studied me?"
mo; Pm not"
what was the rest Of the treat
ment"
"Why Miss Blossom wrote me once
| every week to ask me if we had had
any quarrels and if so whether I
could not have prevented them by act
ing in accordance with her prescrip-
ton. This kept the prescription in my
mind, and l acted upon it constantly.
After three or four weeks l replied to
her query that we hadn't had any dis.
| agreements"
"Now I think of it," the wife broke
in again, "that Miss Harding. the
seamstress. who had sewed for me,
was about that time continually COM
ing to see me to ask If l couldn't get
her some work or on some trivial mat
ter. I do believe they were all ~pretexts.
for every time she called she asked
me how I was getting on as to the
matter of which we had spoken and
always ended by saying people can't
quarrel if they will keep their eyes
fixed on their own faults"
"Flo." said the husband ilnpressively.
at the same time pulling his mus
tache with vigor, give got an idea"
"TVhat is it?"
anapes Of ourselves. I paid that con
sarned woman sos as a retaining fee,
$50 for an outing. which she doubt,
less took at some other place than
B., and a bill Of $500 more for 'profes.
sional services And what did she
do? Crammed into our empty pates
what any ordinary fool should know
"Why, it's in the Bible. isn't it?"
"That about picking the beam out
Of your own eye instead Of picking
a mote out of your brothers eye?"
Surely"
"Well. I'll be jiggeredv
They hung their heads for a few
moments; then the wife said:
"Bob, you've had an idea: now
have one"
"What is it,"
"That that Miss Blossom is nobody's
fool if she did swindle US"
"Swindle us? / don't think she did
Doctors who ran drugs down PEG
pies threats, not knowing what is the
matter with them, and charge them
big fees for doing so may be liable
to that charge, but this actu.
ally cured U.s."
Indeed she did"