Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-26
Something Had to
Happen

1fdch stuff as Trey could use UP in the
course OF a normal lifetime. After
nearly acquiring brain fever trying to
dispose their possessions about the
place without having their home look
as though it was about to choke to
death on a superiority OF furniture and
miscellaneous wares they gave up and
put three quarters Of their wedding
gifts in the basement storeroom. Then
their troubles began.
Mercy" Mrs. Windler cried one
evening just before her aunt and uncle
we're due for dinner. "JiuIDy, veil
have to get that carved osk hail chest
up here before Aunt Cornelia arrivea
or she'll never forgive us! 1t cost q
small fortune and she won't under.
stand Why"
The rest of Mrs. Windler's remarks
we're irreyocably lost in the tumulLu:
ous rush Of the Wind]srs to the base
nent.
Mrs. Windler's pale rose gown was
soon hopelesslF soiled and WiHalers
temper. was ruined for the whole even.
ing. to say. nothing OF his cuffs. The
hall chest was barely thamped into
place with the help Of the su5sidi5et
janitor and the WiHdlers were still
breathing hard when Aunt Cornelia
and Uncle. Jabez arrived. TIE former
81 M.
"S6ehrs I'd ms yotf don't do much
busting Of YOUR things" she said. ruD-
ring 4 finger acrossths chest and leaY.
ing 1 deep depression IN the GRIND
that had settled Oh It in the store-
room. Seems TO he you. don't care
much. about ny gift, I.onlse:" .Whet
Aunt CorneIia rebuked Qua in that
tome the situation was serious,
Aiter the visitors had departed tbs
chest had to bs lnsged db*n TO tis
6S4eh,ent again: Because there was TO
OTTER place for Tho bookcase.
,TBe .ewo, large paintings were the
worst: When, Cousin Johns FOLKS &ers
G5nling tile wfndlefs hunS up the pic:
tirs Of THE. LoY bardy poplars and lilo
sheep. Then they took it down wien
the P6fiiipsons We're dtie. and plfS In
It's placs the 1ictnre presented by the
Phfllipsons showing the garden sceife.
This worked all right until Sue SAM
ders. who could always be depended
upon to say the wrong thing, burst ont
ID the presence OF all the Phllfpsons:
"Ut. you've changed your pictures.
Why. you have q new che! What did
ron do With the cute one Of the sheep
and ,poplars that has always hung
right here till now"
That threw a coldness upon the Phil.
llpsons that never was eradicated.
"They acted" storIned Mrs. Wihdler
belplessly after they we're gone. "as
though it waS our fault that We didn't
have fvs walls ia this room instead OF
four! l hats their old picture, any.
how" .....
The silver, however, created the
most trouble, because there was so
much OF it.
However. they knew they were u5.
ing tie wrong teaspoons the night the
Smiths dined with them by the Escul-
iarly cold manner In which Mrs. Smith
regarded the ones at her plate.
They realized that they had made
the wrong selection in silver bread
plates when Uncle Hiram Do:rtedlT
inquired who had given them the plate
That they preferred to his gift. He
said he had hoped when he devoted
week to selecting it that lie had PICKED
out something they really would Ike.
Altogether. the Windlers had TERRI
Jle time smoot hing down Uncle Hiram.
TBey thought 1t odd that the more
money relative had the more easily
and deeply his feelings we're injured.
When any Of the girls gathered at
her house in the afternoon for cards
Mrs. Windler nearly lost her miro. II
she used Sadie's tea cicth iustesd OF
Aniy's when Amy was present the lat
ter was. SO hurt that It &as painful.
and II Angelina didn'r see her cut
glass vase anywhere abou, her eye,
brors speedily announced the fact.
at isn't a home" Mrs. WindIer
vailed one night. ITS the inside OF
4 Kaleidoscope. In, So nervous for
FEAR IN get the wrong thing out when
ths fight PERSON cores-or for fear
two Of EMIL land hsrs together and
pull each others haif Because ones
gift is sd view and the others isn't
that I'm q total wreck. jimmy"
':Cheef. up,' said the hasstrd Jim;
my. Who was hastily changing 4
bronts head for BarSs lion. the Get
uers being dus that evening. ut
can't 90 o. toteTsr-soIhethins'E Zap.
pen"
# did. TRa building burned down
Thile. the Windlsrs fers at the the.
alter and they returned to aifiss, slo*:
Ing enibers and. complete desolation.
ali your lovely things, Mrs. Wind:
err one Of the nsishb bora moutned,
All YOUR perfectly lo-o-ovely wedding
oresents gone: don't see how You
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