Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-07-09

nome or my own. Just like yours.
Isn't 1t Just perfectly lovely here?
How nicely you've got your rooms dec
GRATED. Nothing gorgeous: everything
In good taste. You're just too com
Portable for anything All day while
you are interested IN your household
duties you have the anticipation of
your husband coming home In the
evening to tell you about what he has
been interested in since he left you in
the morning. how much money he has
made
''or lost" interrupted Mrs Aims
worth.
Yes. lost sometimes. II 1t were all
gain there would be no pleasure I'm 1t.
Its the losses that give zest to the
gains. There's nothing that makes life
worth living except the home. And
you've got the incest home OF any one
of my acquaintance Besides, you
have the prospect of children. I'm a
natural foyer of children. and do you
know every year love them more
and more. never go into house
where there are lot of them romping
about that | don't envy the mother.
They're such blessing I've often
thought how nice 1t must be to dress
them up at times and at other times
watch them play In the dirt, always
merry and imparting their merriment
to their parents. Well. goodby. l just
ran In from my lonely room to get
buoyed up by sight OF your coy
home. How / do envy you."
well. my dear" said Mr.. Ainsworth
to his wife as they walked together
into their upstairs chamber. "how has
the battle gone tocayf"
IL don't know. jim" replied his wife,
whom he drew down on his lap, but
that we make too much Of these ordi-
nary annoyances Of life. 1t seems to
me that II we stopped occasionally to
think how much better OF we are than
some other persons we wouldn't feel
that our daily life contained so many
troubles. Elsie Asche dropped in to-
day just to have look at the comforts
we have In order to cheer herself up
from the misery Of being alone In the
world. l had been grumbling to my
self after you went to business at what
I am obliged to do for you every day.
considering myself to be q slave to
you and all that
Il was thinking the same about you"
when Elsie came In. and she rat
tied away In that garrulous fashion of
hers. showing me how well off am.
making me ashamed of myself"
Funny! That's exactly what Jones
was saying to me when | left the
office"
Il tell you what we'll do. Hereafter
I'm going to consider myself not your
slave. but your willingly obedient wife,
ready to obey you In everything. not
because II Is duty. but because 1t Is
pleas
And rot got through my pocketbook
any more7"
That's not matter OF obedience,
but a measure Of precaution. We
mustn't spend all our income or we'll
never get ahead. and when the little
one comes we must be prepared to-
by the bye. Kit, when the little one
comes Wen have some one we can
both boss, and we won't think SO much
about bossing each other"
Il suppose So"
II have an idea. Phil Jones and Ell.
sic Asche are both so miserable alone.
Suppose We give them taste of mar
ried life by making match between
themY'
Elsie would make a good wife"
And Phil Is fine fellow"
Very well. Wen bring them in to-
gether for dinner"
And year after the wedding we'll
ask them how they like 1t. Maybe
they'll say they have jumped out OF
the frying pan into the fire."
If they do they won't get back into
the frying pan again any more than
we. will they?'
They kissed and went down to din
ner.
81 heard. Mrs. Ainsworth." said Mrs.
Elsie Asche Jones a year after the last
recorded dialogue between Mr.. and
Mrs Ainsworth. that the baby is sick.
l have come I'm to ask II there Is any
thing can do for you"
"0h. no. There's nothing needed.
He's asleep now. Jim and were up
with him all night. The child had the
worst case of collie he's ever had. Jim
walked the floor with him from 2 till
in the morning. The poor man has
gone down to business all tired out"
TOO bad suppose that If children
are a comfort
They must sometimes be a null
sance." said Ainsworth. entering and
interrupting the speaker.
why. my dear" exclaimed Mrs.
Ainsworth. what did you come home
for?"
Headache: played out all over and
from walking post for two hours last