The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11

OAhHEIING IHE GhOU MI.
Oct. I, 1919.
Editor of The Reformer:
Recently. one Friday evening we
we're seated around the fireplace, COM
Portable and cozy, my good wife sew
ng, children playing games and
ooking over the paper, all content and
peaceful. Suddenly my betterhalf looked
Up and inquired, "John, why do you
20 down cellar so often, and what do
YOU do there?"
"Sprouting potatoes, l replied with
/ slight hitch in my chair.
'sSprouting new potatoes in Sep |
tember?' she exclaimed. / realized [
had made an error and Immediately |
Became deeply interested in the news
,aper ads. which / read over three or
our times and then went to bed.
Now, in large strong closet in the
cellar made of plank wherein are
stored the preserves, jams, etc. The
etc, is on the back edge of the shelves
and camoufaged with the fruit jars
II front
A few DAYS ago my wife put stropg
lasp and lock on the closet and she
holds the key. Now those new pota
toes can strange themselves with
,prouts before | III go down cellar again.
Quite often when addressing me my
/ spouse uses some endearing term just
| 20 show her good fellowship and fire.
| 1uently on such occasions and especial
W if little excited she lapses into
| French, a language with which / am
| not familiar Now it irritates me to
be forced to confess or admit (and l
have to do it often) that my better
half is my superior in any way and
when she comes at me huently in some
language that l can't also sling, it gets
my goat. Recently while laying a few
facts before me she concluded with the
remark, "vous pauvre poisson
In answering l didn' want to say
"no' and | didn' dare say g yes.
50 | compromised by saying 81 fully
agree with you.
| Out under the ''Sopsy- is an
| I'D settee where | often go to mediate
Here / love to sit and recall boyhood
lays. The hills and valleys, the brook
! and its speckled beauties, the whirr
| Of the partridge, the old orchard, the
| gathering of fruits and nuts, the check
arberry and spearmint beds, the coast
ing and skating, the old school days
sweetheart and all the joyousness OF
| youth.
| tried i today but I found no solace
no joy, ''no balm in Gilead. /" Ny
ieart ranked within me and l arose
and in passing through the stable
/ kicked the COW, slammed the door, anG
/ as ! entered the house and seated my
\ self at the supper table my countepanct
was sour and | brusquely demanded t.
Il know just what ''vous pauvre poisson
was in good old United States
Il Why, my dear" replied my wife
"'that is an illustration of my appre
citation of some people and the esteem
in which | hold them ;"
II Now l don t wish to doubt nv goot
wife in any way, bnt I didn't jus
II fancy her facial expression or tn,
/ clean in her eyes as she said this, anC
II ! am wondering if you can inform m.
II as TO Just what "vous pauvre poisson
/ is in cold blooded English?
II In chapter one, article the first, O.
II the Constitution of Vermont it reads
U 'All men shall have the inalienabl
right to pursue and obtain happiness
Some of us have pursued happines
! for 40 years and at times obtained il
but on July LIST, last. it slid right on
| from under us. We are still able an,
willing to pursue if only some one will
| help to obtain.
II 1t is predicted that we are to hav
| severe winter and as | am sensitiv
| to the cold / conceived the idea O
| tunneling from my barn to my celia
! which is only few feet, and TIM
| evade the biting winds as I 90 twice
| day to gather the tactical fluid. T be
| gan at the barn end to dig Todd times
| and do you know that when | reache
my cellar | was right back of the DIT,
serve closet. 1t has no back exceptin
the cellar wall. I was awfullv sn1
\ prised, but my wife will be more $
. when ! inform her of the fact abor
Christmas time. / always love to SUI,
prise her on Christmas. That tunn
is going to be a boon to me during IL
cold December days.
= If | can grasp and translate it
= will let you know what I get on Chris
- mas day.