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X with one of the most varied and best assorted
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THE WIDOW’S SECRET.
“I don’t think you treat him right,” said
the rosy little widow to the dressmaker who
was fitting her trim figure to a silk gown of
the color of “inoon upon the lake,” and at
the same time holding her head back, and a
trifle to one side, lest her tears should drop
thereon. ‘‘T don’t think women know how
to treat their husbands.”
‘‘You must be expert in the matter,” res
ponded Mrs. Fittem, “seeing this is the
fourth time you have tried ’em. Hollow in
your hack a trifle, ns is natural to you—
there—sets like a duck’s foot in the mud—
can’t be bettered,” she exclaimed profession
ally.
The widow eyed herself sharply, turning
from side to side, and smiling consciously at
her own prettiness.
“Yes, that will do, Mrs. Fittem; but I am
sure you don’t treat your husband right.”
“Shouldn’t wonder, ma’am, seeing my pa
tience has clean gone out of me. This will
be your fourth husband. Well, well, you
must, begging your pardon, like men bet
ter’n I do. ‘Moon upon the lake’ is mighty
becoming to you, and very suitable for a
widow.”
The lady reddened, but she gave a short
laugh, also, as she answered in away and
manner to hide the sting under wliat she
said, —
“Men are good creatures when women
know how to manage them. They do seem
to incline more to some women than others.”
“You never had a drinking husband, ma’
am, I suppose?”
“Bless you! no, ncyer! I could not abide
the breath. A woman ought to be on her
guard.”
“It seems so strange. Widowhood seems
natural to some women—they thrive and
grow pretty upon it.”
The widow laughed, saying,— r
“I never gaye it a thought—but it may be
so.”
“Going to be married the fourth time!
Not a chick nor a child! not forty yet, and
plump and pretty es ever! Upon my word,
ma’am, I don’t see how you manage.”
“Oli, that’s a secret.”
Mrs. Fittem opened her eyes wide, and
slowly repeated,—
“A secret!
“Yes, indeed; I have found it work admir
ably with three husbands, and doubt not it
will work just as well with the fourth.”
“Bless my heart!” exclaimed the dress
maker, dropping the cord she was covering
to put the flounce on with, and un ill-dis
guised horror on her face.
“Oh, I didn't kill my three husbands.
They were dotingly fond of me to the last,
and left me well provided for.”
“Do tell me your secret, ma’am,” and an
expectant, not to say painful hope, brighten
ed her wan face.
“It isn’t much, Mrs. Fittem, and yet it is
a secret, and its application has been, as it
were, disastrous in my case. lam sure I
never expected it.”
“Dear nud you seem to own up to some
thing. Did they die suddenly, poor crit
ters?”
“Quite the contrary; they lingered along
as if loth to go.”
“Poor critters! I should have thought you
would have felt bad.”
“I did, indeed;” and the pretty woman
preparing to wed her fourth husband wept
at the memory of the three.
“Do tell me all about it,” persisted the
other with a look not sympathetic. “Your
(ears haven’t seemed to dim your handsome
eyes.”
“I don’t know about that—l never thought
about it—but, Mrs. Fittem, first and last I
have cried a great deal.”
“Perhaps you had a reason unknown to
the world, ma’am. But I want dreadfully
to know how you managed it.”
Our widow was a sort of widow Wadley
—easily beguiled to tears or smiles—and
she began to perceive that the astute dress
maker had some latent design in thus ques
tioning her, wlijeh she did not object to
gratify. Accordingly she assumed the nnr- !
rative form, while the needle of her auditor |
clicked against her thimble in concert.
“My first husband, you must know, was
well-to-do, but not rich, lie was what is
called a model man. We went to church
every Sunday, and dropped twenty-five cents
each into the contribution-box —never moro
or less. I knit him stockings and made him
shirts; he liked to see women industrious. ;
and I was industrious. Wc went to lec
tures, and now and then to a social party— 1
always at home and in bed at ten o’clock- |
He was agreeable in temper, and apt to '
drop to sleep. Slow, and automatic in i
movement. He bad away of looking into !
kettles and jars, as if he expected to find
things out of order; and he did so find them, j
j sometimes —it was a comfort to him. He
! read all my letters; he liked it. He poked
* over my bureau drawers, uud saw all my I
gloves and laces in such a mess—and in the
mildest way reprimanded me. This wiyi a
comfort to him, also. lie had not«
he had not a vice; he had r.ot 44 inordinate
desire. I wished he had.”
“You wicked woman!” liAPTHbq
dressmaker. “You didn’t know -AtherriHl
were well off.”
“I know it—l know it—X.didn't sdnir.jJlH
grow good with such a in a 0.0 s 1 ouaEsfl
have done, but when lie
all, and almost cried my eyes out. .wBHm
a man is a good thing about thp IhHBH
look the doors and look after tlftiigsjHHH
a woman is used to having nnJ^B||||||
she is sure to feel lonesome and out of^HE
when he is gone. 1 learned to
husband by no means uiidesirnhlasHHH
band. Now the second husband'.
inv widow ’s weeds the conycntionaT’l^HHH
though several of the most ngreeaijl^Hßß
were attentive to me, but my
managed to prevent them from proposußj
for I rather liked my freedom, and somolmS
three excellent men, who had known
cellent husband, were not-- to my mind. Is
am afraid I hated good men.*’
The dressmaker groaned. „"'*v
“Oh, how could you? lam surp such a
husband must be beautiful.”
“That is true, Mrs. Fittpm-y-and he
thought me beautiful. But you inust under
stand ho was a model man, and he did his
best to make me a model woman—but it was
not in mo. fVo women are naturally per
verse, and apt to think our way as gojd as a
man’s way.”
“So it is, only a good deal better,” mut
tered the other.
“I donjt know about that. lam apt to
think a man is wiser about many things than
wo are; but, any way, married people will
quarrel as a rule, because each is bent upon
his own way. Now I never disputed a hus
band —never, never opposed him. But, as
I was going to say, one of my admirers was
of a different kind, lie was bright, dash
ing, high spirited and witty. lie quite took
mo by storm of contrast. Ho was not a
model man by any means, but he was intel
ligent, loved heats, and had a fine taste for
music. lie had a mean opinion of women
in general, and was sometimes furious at
himself for loving me. lie declared he
would be master iu spite of me which was
quite necessary, for I rather liked to have a
master as saving trouble and responsibility.
I hate disputes and fuss of any kind, and
let matters slide in the easiest manner pos
sible.”
“I should think you might be a little la
zy,” returned her auditor.
“Is that the name for it? TV ell, perhaps
I am. He would get into a fury about his
buttons, and because a door creaked, or the
coffee was.poor, and storm about the house,
and slam doors and kick over chairs, at
which I only said, ‘Softly, softly, dear,’
which only made him worse.”
“I believe you,” said the dressmaker.
“He even called me a devil once, in a sort
of tender fit, and quoted Shakespeare:
“ ‘Perdition catch my soul, but I do lovo
thee!’
“lie said I would sit perfectly calm on a
husband’s coffin while he smothered beneath,
for what is a woman to do, but bo quiet,
while a big, strong man is raging about
notiiing. In one of these spells lie broke a
blood vessel on the brain, and an autopsy
showed a disease of the head, which was
pitiful to think about.”
“I wonder ho hadn’t killed you,” was the
response of Mrs. Fittem.
“My third husband was all sentiment, and
called me pet names, that would have de
lighted Fanny Osgood, tho poet. I took
them all patiently.”
“Patiently!” cried her hearer. “It must
haye been delightful.”
“Yes, when lie called me pet, I had an
excuse for being girlish, if birdie, I might
trill my notes; queeny might be cold and
proud, so he had it nil his own way. But
your sentimental man wants a good deal of
sentiment in return; must be indulged and
coddled, and sees everything in a sweet Ar
cadian light; wants his wife to dress in out
of-tho way styles; quotes: —
“ ‘Give me a form, give me a face,
That lends simplicity a grace.
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art,
That takes mine eye but not my heart.’ j
“I went about mindless of the cestus of j
Venus, and had an excuse for showing my |
beautiful hair, and dawdled over Moore and j
Byron, feeling internally that I was a poor
goose, and a sort ot fraud, for too much sen
timent is very tiresome.”
“And he died like the rest?”
“Y-e s,” and the widow tapped a small
boot upon the caipet musingly.
“It seems to mo that your second husband ,
understood you better than tho others,” re- '
marked the dressmaker.
“How so? no matter; but you must see |
NO. 36.
that 1 you do not know
how to manage yflfffaruaband, Mrs. Fittem.”
“>»u- hhve not'MjfW'e -your secret.’'
■ y f »‘ not gmj^t?”
o mo' that you let them Lava
did, It is fatal to man or
’to 1 have their own way.
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I than inditb;* uir. ’
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' l>':xt i' :, :l \ of t lull kind,
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Rrself, nor do you make
man; men aro not easily
? do in a case like mine,
s?”
just the same.”
i? how?”
ttered the widow half to
i opinions and make an
on Them.”
tell your secret, now I cannot for my
lifetßuess whait.it; is.”
* '‘flcnr Mrß,*Frhem, you arc an adfairablo
dressmaker—my silk, to use my own illus
tration, sets like a duck’s foot in the mud;
but you don’t know how to manage a hus
band. You must come the morning lam to
bo married and seo that lam all right. Mr.
Blank is fastidious. My hat is a perfect
love of a hat, and makes mo look charming
ly; but let me advise you,” laying at tho
same time time a nicely gauntleted hand on
Mrs. Fittem’s shoulder, “let your husband
have his own way,” and she whirled her
limber little shape out of tho door, with a
musical laugh that did not crinkle her
cheeks nor pucker her eyes.
“Mrs. Fittem gave the moon-upon-thc
lake dress a somewhat yigorous kick and
exclaimed, —
“She’s a devil—thafs what she is, and
that’s the way she has made herself three
times a widow.”
"So are all women,” hiccoughed a maud
lin voice just coming in oyer the rear thres
hold. “Who are you contemplating, loyey?
Whn^aitj”’
The dressmaker eyed him a moment scorn
fully, but the culling her “lovey” did the
business with mingled tenrs and
smiles she patted his dusty shoulder, and
replied,—
"Dear, dear ducky, the .nice little widow
has been telling me hoyv—how I might boa
widow.”
“She jins? She understands the business,
T should think.” The idea had the effect to
sober him. “What did she want you to do,
' lovey?” v
“Well—it was dreadful!”
“Well, well, what was it? I’ll have a
warrant out and arrest her; 1 11 have her
shown up for what she is—the she Harry
Tudor—the she Blue Beard that she is,” and
lie went so far ns to kiss the cheek of his
poor wife, who quite broke down under this
unwonted tenderness, and threw herself into
his arms.
“I will neycr do it, duckoy, never.”
“I am sure of it, I can trust you. You
arc not fit to be a poor lone widow. You
need the protecting arm of some husband.”
Mrs. Fittem drew herself up a bit at this;
there was rebellion in her look.
“Yes, she told me her secret,” she said.
“What was it, lovey? I am sure you
would not hurt a hair of the head of your
poor, devoted —”
Here he broke down from some cause or
other, and staggered to one side.
“1 told her about your drinking so, James,
and how you spent my earnings, ar.d how I
get out of all patience and sometimes well
nigh hate you.” This was said with grave
solemnity, and then she added briskly,
“What do you think she told me to do?”
“Couldn’t guess; but I’m very sure you
won’t do it.”
“Never —you would not live a month.”
“Do tell—do tell wh; t it was.”
“She told me to let you have your own
way—think of that!”
The man’s eyes twinkled with wicked
mirth.
“That wasn’t so bad, lovey.”
“Not so bad! why, you would drink your
self to death in a month or less, if I let you
have your own way.”
“Oh, no; I would be cautious for your dear
sake, so unfit to be a widow. Let me have
my own way, lovey; I’ll take tho risk.”
And she did—she followed the widow’s
advice Under the circumstances, the read
er can easily divine why Mrs. Fittem became
a widow.
“Years have not seen and time shall not
see,” tho people sit down quietly to suffer
pain, when enterprise can afford such a pan
acea as Salvation Oil.
An exchange speaks of a man who "is
but one step removed from an aso,” He’d
better make it three or four. The animal
has a long reach backward.