The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-08-13

out 10 the WOOu-
shed and hold an indignation meeting
and pass a series of resolutions de-
n%ouncing your toil-worn husband be-
he hasn't furnished you with
marble halls and vassals and serfs by
your side.
You know hat l am swaybacked
and k%neesprung as a result of my he
roic efforts to keep the wolf from the
door. If you We're the right sort of
woman you would say, after seeing
the Wigglemeyer outfit, My esteemed
husband may not be able to surround
me with such oriental luxury and mag
nificence, but everything we have,
from the sanitary couch to the plush
rocker, is paid for, and it Is better to
sit on a nail keg free from incum-
brance, than to bask at ease on q Per-
sian divan that may be confiscated by
the installment house the first time we
miss a payment
'If you would look at things in that
light, Mrs. Jamesworthv. I would feel
more like continuing I struggle to
sidestep the p%oorhouse.
Suppose we had the house full Of
sumptuous furniture, what better off
would you be? There might be a
sneaking satisfaction in showing it off
to visitors, but such satisfaction is an
unholy thing. 1t is the pride that
goeth before destruction. 1t is vanity
and vexation of spirit. Only n mean
spirited beldame will exhibit her gor-
geous rosewood furniture to a woman
who has to struggle along with a bed
and dresser made of a cheap grade of
pine.
when the shades Of night have
fallen fast, and Mrs. Wlgglemeyer goes
to her bedroom and to her imposing
mahogany bed, do you suppose she
sleeps in 1t any better than you do in
your golden oak bed that went out of
fashion twenty years ag3f I trow, NOT,
Mrs. Jamesworthy. That golden oak
bed must have narcotic qualities, for
the way you sleep Is a caution to mum
mics. If you could hear yourself snor-
ing you'd be perfectly satisfied with a
couch that makes such snoring posi-
BILE.
I'm these degenerate days the wom-
en- think of nothing but making n big
display. If they can't do it in their
millinery, they want to do 1t in their
houses. They forget that all grandeur
is superfluous. You get nothing out of
1t. What is n bed for? To sleep in /;
and when you sleep you are uncon-
scious. Then what difference does 1t
make whether you sleep in a $500 ma
hogany bed, or a 81 cotton hammock?
What is n chair for2 To sit in and
you can sit just as well in a rustic
hand store, as you can In the chair of
ebony inlaid with pearl.
"When l was young, women were
different. My sainted mother had ne
use for expensive furniture. Father
always was dissatisfied with the bed
he had to sleep in. He made it him
self, with an AK and crowbar, when he
"a n young man. The Stats were al
ways falling out of ii and dumping my
reyered parent on the floor, and when
he picked himself up he used to say
things that had smoke IN them. AS
he grew older he wanted a new mod
ern bed, but mother wouldn't stand
for 1t. She wouldn't hear of such ex-
travagance. She used to tell father
that he wouldn't be able to sleep in a
first-class bed, he had so long been
used to finding his feet about Il yard
higher than his head when he woke.
Finally my mother"
81 wish it was finally with your
mother" said Mrs. Jamesworthy. "Tm
sick of hearing of her"