The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-09

Sunday morning Bob dreamed that !
he was in hell. About him was n lurid |
light covering all the armament. Sa |
tan came to him and asked him why |
he didn't go to work at the furnaces, !
and when he said he was tired and |
didn't wish to work the arch fiend |
polied him with his pitchfork and |
woke him up. The lurid glare of hades |
dissolved into a lurid glare In his bed |
room. \ window shade had been left !
up. and the sunlight was pouring in,
Illuminating the red decorations. Then
Carrie awoke and, sitting UP in bed,
shaded her eyes with her hands.
What an awful glare!' she exclaim-
ed 81 thought you lowered that shade
last night. | told you to do So"
II don't remember your telling me
any such thing"
II certainly did"
"You didn't"
81 did"
whats the matter with you this
morningE"
Nothing"
you're cross as a bear"
First cast the beam out of your own
eye and you will see clear to cast the
mote out of mine"
Il always heard the devil is good at
quoting Scripture"
He turned over, with a grunt, and
tried to go to sleep again, but the glare
in the room prevented. The wife lay
thinking. Where was the loveliness of
the past happy week? Their expecta-
tions of a renewal were disappointed
on awaking the first morning. Bob
tossed about for awhile, then got up
and took his bath.
"Where the devil is the warm water
this morning?" he yelled from the bath
room.
Didn't l tell you yesterday that the
range fire had gone out?"
"What did you let it go out for? Do
you suppose man wants to bathe in
ice water, especially on Sunday morn
ing?"
"Oh, shut up! You'll drive me crazy"
Bob slammed the bathroom door.
Presently he came out with a razor in
his hand and blood on his chin.
cut yourself, dear" asked his wife.
"Oh, don't dear me. Get me some
court plaster quick"
She went to the medicine closet for
the court plaster, but since she couldn't
find it at once he hurled maledictions
upon her. Finally she threw the court
plaster at him, went to her own suit
and shut the door. Bob didn't expect
to see her again for hours. He was
agreeably disappointed. In half an
hour she came out, with an angelic
smile on her face, and said:'
Don't you think I'd better have the
breakfast served in my room instead of
yours, deaF?"
mo, l don't. You can have yours
served there if you like. I'm going to
eat mine in my own rooms"
"All right, dear. Did you cut your
self badlyT'
Little you care whether 1 did or
not"
Carrie after fixing Bob's coffee hand
| ed it to him and let go Of it before he
had got hold ON it. The consequence
was that cup and saucer fell to the
table, the cup was broken and the cOf-
fee soused over the white linen table
cloth.
Bob burst forth into a torrent of pro-
family, and Carrie, with flashing eyes,
left the table.
One hour later Bob, realizing that
the blessed day Of rest that came but
once a week was likely to pass in mis-
cry, went TO his wife's room to try for
q reconciliation. She was sitting at
table writing some letters. 1t seemed
to him that she had left him in hell
and he had followed her to the garden
of Eden. There was something delight
fully verdant about the apartment
Carrie looked up at him lovingly. He
bent down and kissed her.
"What the deuce were we squabbling
about anyway" he asked.
II don't know, dear"
"NOr /. l only know l wanted to
kill some one"
"And l felt as if would fly out OF
my skin"
The next day the family physician
was called in to see Mrs. Delatielo
and was received in the red suit. Aft
er giving her some minute instructions
pertaining TO her case he said:
Have you other rooms in the house
than theseT
Eyes. Why do you ask, doctor"
Because in your condition it will
never do for you to occupy these. The
red will have very bad effect upon
you. Red will drive some persons tc
insanity"
How would green doT
"The very thing. Red is terribly irri
tating; green is very restful. II you
have a room decorated in green, move
into 1t at once"
"Indeed l will, doctor"
When Bob came home his wife me-
him at the door and flung herself int
his arms radiant.