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Show a dish- 6f ,6ifw;.oHM BY; BETTY BREEZE, "JIabriaob is a Xottery,1-1 they say. JJctty Breeze thinks that it Js as .Often a business of speculation. A. man and a woman determine to better tlieir fortunes for-tunes in this way j'thoy meet and pro- tend tp fail in' love; in thojrocess of time, they . swear uhdyrjng- attachment J and cntor into thq bonds.. Then com-: menecs "the tug pf war." 0, shade of j domestic happiness (.dead and Imriod years ngd), stand, by and look, on! Pulling both vrays, and crOss-ways, and every wayr but tho right way. Wife -wants to wear tho i pants; Jmsband thinks they suit him beat. Wife, wants to govern everything; husband says ho scorns to bp governe4 a rif e. Wi fe has a will of her "own (a. tongue, too, forthat mattcr),-and wants to exbrt it, in a case that ia clearly out o-?her jurisdiction; husband won't; hc"ar -to- It; ithey como to a, pitched battle of wprdsj.i i husband flics, but carries tho day for all that. Hurrah for tho- Jiusoandr After awhile, wife reflects that slid was, imprudent -in this case; sho should have let him alone this time, and confined hqr attention to matters, more in her Own. sphere; alio will do better in future. K will never do to let him conquer in that way, though thinks sho will try it again.. A few days, afterwards, sho tries to exert her influence in a legitimate case. Husband, flushed with, recent victory, determines to stand out again; wife tscolds, taunts, shoots firo and fury from, 'her eyes; husband goti obstinate, won't say a word; wife coe3 into hysterics, 'and husband gets liis hat and goes whistling down thq street ugh! the savage! Wife finds that there is no Use in having hysterics, when thoro is ' no ono to bco it, recovers and meditates taking the enemy by stratagem. Hus- tysad comes to.dtnner;'Mfof has not ta; word' to iray-looifesjiko; aj saint uhder going. martyrdom, sjealcs In a.' fantX aofftbho of Irpico, wears jaimebk; lambr like expression, wove atfpufc in ' quiet "abaneu maflnorj: occasionally giving'; rent to burstrniiighnd, aliogeth6r prescnting.a perfect, picturVot injurdd jnndcqn.cq, which, h bxtrcrtqlyiaffecting to th beholder husband igiidnplussbdi becohies .cxcesstvcly;annbydi-.; tries' to. talk, hut, iihanied-by; wifeXccsjivdi jmcotnessjlio begins ttf havo.a glimmerr ing suspicion, dt..t;tVuo8tato of, .the casdan.drrclapsbsinloglobmy.sile Wlf (carries on this gamdf foribvqral oSaya1 without, success, becpms,alafmcjd, concludes;. td' "chanO', hqr'- tacticsi ;anil trytho:offectj)t sunshine.?1 N!tVtimo ljusband iomeshome, . .ho';- finds "wife. .Vcr amiabloj;1 slid TOcc;hlm5, with i: smilej "and calls him dcar:,liband" liusband; startlbil put pf jhis'proprictyj )tbnder.whnt' slip4 pors comd nbxt, brought' hrwifo's little ; whito, hands7f6hdldjaW-his chair to iho :fircf .'a.'jtjm ,thppaVbi,;theh. stands at thb;baiqlcf d i' chair ahd.Avinds pnd rsof t armvarotind liilr'neckj"" lbatsriov-ihglyon lbatsriov-ihglyon Ids; 'shoulder,- and. "with' "Hliq o'thci' haUd VtrokdsV . back ,ht$;,-hair and softljr scr'atbhesr h'iv. head,;, Ahsho kriowslns iveak',point!-'Hushandui;d(ff cidodl,' perplexed, mind begins , to wandcri inteljecti ' becomes., confused, judgment ' 'distracted,' andr :i a sad Btatcof, perturbation, wonders where he is;;wliat i3 fo.cpmp of it? Wife con-.tinucs'lier con-.tinucs'lier delightful Caresses, lmsband. gradu&lly softens a consciousness of, his beatified ..condition dawns upon Jiimho- takes wife iii his arms, aftd in -his State of felicity is. willing -,to swear td anything, in the. World; ow,vhy did npt tho silly woman go to.wpric m he .rjgh.t wayat.first? Jii ihdlll 1 d Ji llV ej UidJ tal I . hoi- n frt(inUiovfiinn"mg. - A' Wan" caii'tj hold-' ovitv against a smlllug,' cheerful,, loving, acaussing J woftian, any' mora than thdivha jut can!t do.it; that f alp lJut.the(sb women! v ITlicy don't ; It'now whaYs'.gdbd'fpr themv ,. They spoU' nil byltpoutfng six days but pf dpyeni -Now, wouldn't Bdtty Brcezd ' know how td'marfago better -than 'tlrat? .Wouldn't she cpax him oand,' cajole;himl Ilugjiii and kiss, him,, and scratch, ljisjioadand fetrokfthlsjrmusWchpiiud brush' his coat arid fan : Jiirn" and talk sweetly to him! Until tho dear-man WOuldnUiknow his.right hand, frdmj his left. Pdliaw! Betty knowshow-tO'man; age them! " , tu, |
