Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 23, 1890, Page 14

Somerville Jnurnal The rain beats on the window pans Tho wind, with sob and moan, Makes the night mournfal, as 15it Here by my fire—alone, I cannot read—my novel lies Unnoticed on my knee. Into the dying five [ gaze In lonely reverie, The night winds soband moan without, The firclight's Atful gleam Casts mocking shadows all about— As in some horrid dream. . - » . . The fire is dead. With sudden start I wake, weary and sick at soul To think I haven't paid the bill For that last cannel coal, HER HUSBAND'S MOTHER. A Thanksgiving Story. Eva Best in the Detroit Free Pross: “And what do you call lhl , Mrs. Van Hamm? “H—h—hash, Leonard.” “0O, ‘h—h—hash,” is it? vile concoctions—take it away “H\u 1 nmugm only to be 1 n thought only husband with food not Take it away, will you?” Into the savory compound hall a dozen bright tears fall as Mrs. Van Hamm carries the dish out into the kitchen, A great lump swells in her throat, n great weight tugsat her heart- strings, and, though the room grows dim with the briny mists in her tired eyes, she knows ‘twill never do to let them full until her lord and master is out of the house, And once he s gone—once the front door has banged its wooden oath buck she throws, hersclf upon the 1 lounge and cries, and and eries! O, that she were dead ~—that she had died beforeshe ev aw the handsome face of Leonard - Van Hamm! 1f only Madeline Waters had succecded in capturing him—if only she hud! Somehow, after a while, the thought of that possible might-have- been beging to interest her mightily and what with her own sunny nature and the qu she actually begins to the pretty, woe-begone themselves curves dency! She is 50 sweet tempered—so gentle; 80 full of li gladness and_the poet’s tenderapprec iation of all earthlybeauty, seeing in it buta reflex of that more heavenly loveliness that shall come with the perfection of sclf, that be he, her husband, never s der- , she can always, ofter he has left the house, throw off the gloom with which ho has surrounded her so continually of late. When they were lovers—so short a while ago it is in reality—so lone ago in seeming, no smallest hint of what was to come 10 her after the honeymoon had showed itself. She knows now that his real affection is unchanged—thatdid any great danger assail her his heart would respond to hers as quickly and as warmly as of yore, But overall this hidden loyalty there has grown an ugly erust of selfishness that transforms his i in her eyes and makes his pre: less than a torment to her. Though she tries, nothing that she can do seems to please him. She has had littlo experi- once to be sure—very little. The eldest daugnter of wealthy, indulgent pavents, who culture were enough—who looked not to the woman’s life as wife and mother that she must afterward lead, but to the bril- liant social position in which they placed her, and joyed to seo her shine therein like a facetted diamond. Out of this bright world Van Hamm had taken her, out of the clash and clatter of social cir- cles, right home, at once, to the house he had jurnished for hern a distant ¢ All went smoothly enough at first. There was a round of delightful pn= ings at home, when she busied herself with suuu-(lnng she called drawn work and he read the evening papers, or som entertaining magazine, aloud, both ¢ cupations often interrupted during the earlier changes of that quickly waning moon by fond expressions and’ caresses innumerable, But gradually the gib- bous planet brought a chilling atmos- phere withits dimmed radiance,and now it had come to pass—the darkof the honeymoon being - upon them —that fretful expressions, fault-finding. aye, and even wo things than these were filling he erst huppy horizon, 1f only Madeline Waters had captured him. One hour later the postman came fetching a letter that makes her earlier worries seem 08 naught. Leonard’s mother, whom she had seen but once <and that for one little hour at their wed- ding, is' coming—Leonard's wmother is coming to spend Thanksgiving with them—Leonard’s mother, The words ring in her ears. And not only will she spend the national holiday with her son and daughter-in-law, but she will come two weeks before—in fact, as the daugh- ter.in-law realizes with aquick glance at the missive in her hand, by the date :lnonthmul she .will arrive that very ay. And Leonard’s mother comes. Comes with a noisy elamor that seems to mean asort of usurpation of all rights re- served by the daughtor-in-law. But she kisses her maternal relative-in-law, and allows hevself to be hugged an ejaculat- ed over, and never once does the smile she puts on a mask, slin frem hoar fea- tures, “Woell, Leslie, dear, here T am. Re- ceived my letter, did you? And how's Leonard?” ‘*He is weli, mother; quite well.”” **As much in love as ever, I suppose— oris he?” “I must leave you to decide from ap- peavances, mother. Sit here, please, be- ore tho fire—it’s quite sharp and frosty out here this mornin, “Thunk you, lo~ln, will Leonard be at home for dinner *'Oh, yes, indeed. And now if you will excuse me, mother, I will go and see about it,” “Keep a hired girl, of course “Well, n-o, not just at present. You seo Leonard thinks that for just tyo a servant is a bit of extravagance: “What, Leonard turned economist— my son Leonard?” “Does it really surprise you? Oh, yes. indeed; he has grown quite econom- cal of late,” “Oh, has he? Humph! Well, go along, Leslie, but you must let me fol- low you. I am more at home ln the kitchen than in the parlor any day.’ Oh, if she wouldn't—if “she only wouldn't! But she does, and, somehow, bofore Leslie knows just how it comes about, Mrs. Van Hamm, sr. is quarter- ing apples for sauce, pecling potatoes and deftly doing all the little things that lie in her helpful way townrds get- ting dinner. She is standing behind thekitehen door wiping her hands on along white roller towel when her son enters the side door leading into the dining room where Leslie is busie about the table. *What in the name of all that is con- founded is that front door locked for? Didn’t I tell you never to lock it so that J couldn’t undo it with my might key? Of all the to polson your fit for beusts! take upon of an vpward ten- {ear, “On, I thought that to give her mental | Areyou losing your senses Mrs, Van Hamm, or— “Mother “Aren't you surprised, Len?’ With hands outstretched and a gracious ignor- ing of the harsh words accorded Lesli g the mother goes forward to meet her gon. Leonard, kissing her hastily, crim- sons a little guiltily at remembrance of what she makes no'sign of having over- heard.” “Well, Leonard, I thought ['d surprise you-and I'm sure, now, that I've eded. It'salong journey from home but, as I'd never visited you, I made the effort to come, and 1 shall stay until after Thanksgiving, You've much thanks for, Leonard, much.” mother, and it's a soo you, Leslie, ain't din- , yot?” Leonard—that is—nenr The hesitating, half-frightened voice of the young wife catehes the mother-in- law’s ear, It tells her a story that she that she feared ar from the very beginning: byt o story of the truth of which, neverthe- lews, she has traveled many miles to learn, . “Dinner mother. SAt last? Well, I am glad to hear it. Sit heve, mother; and if you can find anything fit to eat I shail be delightfully surprised. Leslies no cook, you know.” S0 1 preceive,” sq n Hamm, is ready, Leonard. Come, A like look at that sickeniag,” “I.thought you seemed in ahurry, Lecuird, and so i) my steak well done? - Just mother—it’s _absolutely e suggestion of ‘s shop, did you? Pah cook it a little longer if you like, Leonard—" Do, if you expect me to eat it.” “Yes, Leshie,” adds Leonard’s mother, myself couldn’t touch the stuff, y, while it is in that state. For goodness sake cook it until itis done next time!” Red-faced wife goes and confused the young T ricdly kitchenward with the beefst FFor Leonard to taunt her b been bad cnough; but for his mother, whom she hardly knew, to so openly, so impolitely chide her— Heaven pity her if horror were 1o be added to horror—the Ossa of her grief piled upon the Pelion of her despair! “Much to be thankful for, did you say, mother?” she heard her husband say as the meat hissed once more above'the embel “Well, I'll leave that for you to discover. How in this world a woman con live and not know how to cook, beuts me!” “She ean't know everything, Len. And | suppose her folks thought musie, dancing and literary accomplishments would stand_her in good stead,’ answers her hushand’s mother. “*Musie, dancing, literary accomplish- ments’—fiddlesticks! s music going to L pie? s dancing going to cook a This she hears through the hissing of angry juices as they fall upon the now dying embers, Dancing! How with his arm about her—with the sobbing sound of the dreamy waltzanusie wrapping them in its melodious, impalpable }uhlfl, he had, rain, breathed into her happy “eslie, my love, my darling, to go |h\'uuF;l| life with you thus would be-~heaven!™ And [ean never express my wishes or say asimple word but she weeps —it’s exasperating! If over—hullo! There you are—it's done this time, I s ev time and g ve me just a very small piceo, Meut’s ne v worth a pica- thanks!” , mother; but what's the matter? ““This appl sugar, Leslie?” **No, mothe I didn’t forget it: hut Leonard says [ waste so much sugar when I try to sweeten—"" “Inever said to leave it so tart that it twists a person’s tongue into knots, did There's reason in everything, Mos. an Hamm! 1'd thank you to pass mother the sugar-howl,” “No, thank you, Leslie, don’t trouble yourself. Unléss the sugar is cooked in with the sauce it never tastes right.” This with a shoving to one side of the portion dished up for Mrs. Van Hamm, senion *Got anything to drink, Leslie? coffeo, chocolate —any thing “Why, n-no, Leonard. You said that at dinner we were never to have hot drinks— “When we were alone, I know I did, but mother’s here now-a fact that seems to have escaped you— and why upon carth you didn’t think to be wu little polite and make her a cup of tea passes my comprehension. You al- ways drink a cup of tea at dwner, mother, don’t you?" ** I never enjoy a meal without it. thank you—no pie. 1 never eat don't make myself, Leonard, dogy member the mince pie I used to make for you to take to school?” "l(«'lm-nlber them? \Vo]l, say so! Those were pies! Not watery, soggy articles such as these. Do you think, mother, do you honestly think you could teach Leslie how you maunu- facture such delectable viands?” “‘Well, my son. it depends. You see Leslie’s bringing up was so different from mine. Her scales were on fhe piano—mine on fish; and the quill she used to write with would never teach her to cook the goose it came from. But Dl try—T1 try “There's your chance, Leslie, seize it! And may I never have to swallow such diabolicul messes as [ have swallowed since Bridget—"" A choking noise stops his utterance and puts a sudden end to his mealy har- angue, while the flight of his w from the dining room is enough to arrest his selfish train of thought, Has she gone mad? Or what upon earth can the fool- ish woman mean? Can’t sheallow a fellow to talk—simply talk! Well, good-bye, mother, I'm You'll soon see how much I have thankful for—ha-hal” *Good-bye, Leonard, my son. oe you again at supper, Tell Leslie, please, she must try to get along with loss gns—that last “bill’s a frightful one. Let her use candles if she hus to have a light—these dark days fairly cat up money.” And lighting an expensive cigar Mr, Van Hamm goes up town, When the man of the house is fairly gone, Mrs, Van Hamm, the elder, seck- ing highand low, finds Mrs, Van Hamm, nm\uuug.- in her little sewing room up stairs lostin a perfect paroxysm of grief "anlh» I—-I'm here! And if everI was glad I was anywhere it is that I am Forel™ Sink ng down beside her sobbing daughter-in-law, who is crouched in one corner of the little sofa, *Are—are—ure you?" sobs Leslie, po- litely. *Yes, I am, sauce. Did you forget the Tea, Y meant, Yes, No, I should off. to be " And so will you be, too, my dear! Tt's just us [ feared—he %s his father over again! “Who's father over again®’ young wife, weops the ed!” she wails, , indeed. But leave him to me— leave him to me!” 'Yo—yés, ma'am!” “*Leslio, dear, that man worships you —he loves you with his whole heart and soul—Q, I know him! But he has al- sue- | lowed the rank weeds of selfishness, watered by your tears, to so hedge him in that he has lost sight of the sunshine of love and s mtent to stay in the shadow of his own self-complacent ego- tism ~m-mother!" *Cry all the huulvl if you want to at this truth I'm telling you—it will only do you good if it rids you of the briny drop. Leslie, I was somew vere upon you at dinner time—perhaps you noticed it—yes? Well, that isn't thing to what I'm going to be. here—there, don't look frightened! My doar daughter, there cortai I'm going to take by the will permit me—a terriblo animal, cious and cruel, and one that ga strength with age, You didn't know your mother-in-law was so skilled a matador, did you, or t she was an adept in throwing bander| rost? ““What do you megn, mother? *It's asecret. A sham battle would deceive an onlooker; but the shots fired, though they seem disastrous, muke no wounds. I shall fire volley after volley at you, Leslie—nny, listen, girl—and, ai- flmngh the sound be something appall- ing, there will be no bullets to hurt you. I shall spare you nothing—mv words shall seem to cut like knives—my tongue be sharper than d sword. But be brave through it all, remembering thrice armed is sho who hath her quar- rel just; and, looking beyond the noisy din of battle, watch for the rising of the sun of peace that shall set only at the ending of your own life's day!”’ Atsupper Leonard is not allowed the usual luxury of finding fault at his pleasure; his mother is ahead of him. dJoes he but ditect his attention this way or that, everything his eye falls upon eritieally is, by his watchful purent, hauled over the coals—from bis- cuits to canned fruit, from wafers to jelly. The tea is too strong, the milk too blue, the butter old,the cheese rank. Even the creased tablecloth is condemn- ed, the big napkins ridiculed, llm vel arrangement of the tea sel sured. Leslie's brInging up is again laid upon the tapis, picked relentlessly to pieces fin- ished off with vinegar sauce. Each time Leonard opens his mouth i mother also opens hers, and her being a feminine one, wins every from starting point to finish, son, at last, perforce s for the time during his short m } nothing to dobut to listen silently to rhodomontades that bid fair to throw his most elaborate efforts in the shade. For a whole week i fault finding, the bitt corous gibing and by the week’s end Leonard has verily come to find himself an Othello with his occupation gone. even hegins to look curiously at Les- who throws strange, inexplicable nces towards his mother, but who stands the belaboring socalmly and well that ho grows to respect her courngeous dignity and wish that his mother, though certainly in the right, wouldn't be quite so hard on her. By the middle of ne; week he has grown absolutely restive, and looks at his maternal relative with eyes in which insurrection scoms ready ot ali the dangerous fires of r lie—poor, patient, gentle little Leslio-— how can she stand it all so silently? He has been a bit harsh and fault- udln-- Lf of late—but never so muln'mlN olent or vindictive as is his mother! Positively he is ashgmed of her ill-treatment of his wife— his poor Leslie! How can his mother expects so much of her? What if she were brought up differently from other common mortals—cooks, seam- stresses and the like? She, his wife, could write poems—tender bits of verse that touched one’s finer sensibilities and play with the technique of a master! That is, at least, she could, once: now, how could we expect such things from the drudge his own mother seemed to expect her to become? What did his mother know, anyhow—his mother that was brought up ona farm and went 1o school ina log school-house—of thi |gs oceult, mysterious and soul-inspir or of the {)l‘llhl and world from w )II\h his Leslie came? Did she expect that he would be satisfied to see his wife turn herself into a slave without one thought above the pantry? By heaven, there should be an end to all this—and at once! T'his is about the dozenth time I've warned you, Leslie,” hears Leonard as he ¢omes down to breakfast next morn- ing, “to make one loaf of bread last three meals; it’s pure extravagance, wastefulness, that will come to want on your part. DIl admit that buker’s bread is no good any way you put it, and you ave just paying out zood hard cash for tastoless dough and air-holes; but as you don’t know enough to make bread White people can eat I suppose you'll just go onuntil youland my son in a poor house! T'll never try to teach you to make bread again—not by a good deal! I'm annoyed to death by your dullness! If ever a woman was pe plexed, harassed, vexed and tormented, trying to teach her son’s wife the first meaning of the word economy, I'm that woman. If ever—" *‘Mother!” “*Good morning, Leonard, Don’t in terrupt me, please. When first I offered to try to teach Leslie here, to manage her house and cook a decent meal, T 1it- tle reckoned on the miserable material I was to wear my very life out upon! Why any one who loves to eat as youdo, lmmmrd should have married so com- )!nlu an ignoramus—don’t glm'u atme, oy!—so complote un ignoramus!—a girl who knows how to finger a polka or com- pose a jugling rhyme bettor than she does the composition of porterhouse rolls or a veal omelet—why, I say, you should have been hoodwinked into mar- vying Leslie Gwynn when there was Jane Judkins crazy to take yo Judkins, who not only took first p ium Wt the county fair for her Imml- cheese and gingerbread, but who in- herited old l\ulkmx farm beside—" "\Iulhul ““And who would have never given you cause to open your mouth concern- ing breakfast, luncheon, dinner or sup- per for the rest of your natural exist- ence—" **Mother, stop! 1f Jane Judkins—con- found her-—were the last woman alive I'd not look at her twice! W hat—com- pare her—that raw-boned, sandy-headed, red-faced, loud-voiced creature to my Lestie? And, mother, though it may be all very well to harangue and go on it a certain rate, it appears to me that of late you have been pitching it pretty strong, It is true Leslie hasn'y lmd the sume sort of education you have— *The same sort I have had?—hump! I should thlnklnut indeed—Dbless my soul horns, if you fero- and ngue, rac ind the first with all that T don't see that it's necessarily to her disadvantage—" Leslie, stop your bawl- 's anything [ ‘do hate to see it’s a grown up woman bawl! Leuve lhemm 3 ly wife, stay where you are!” Leslie, softly ~crying, touched by the unwonted tenderness shown her by her husband, stands looking with ‘tear- dimmed eyes from one to the other of her marital relatives. Leonard’s eyes blaze with defiant anger, while his wother’s gleam quizzically upon his wratful countenunce, There is a long silence between the three occupants of the little breakfast room, and at its end the man slowly turns toward his now hysterfeul wite, and, stooping, places o | thatone little kimd speech and ¢ | you? kiss upon her tremulous lips. In an- | other moment ha'{§ gone. “It has come- it has come last! That last scourginit did it, only wonder thaf, my tongue didn't wither at the reots! Why, daughter, dear, how hysterfeal you ‘are—you are shaking like'an afpen! Ts. it possible on son’ of mine can 8o effect If this little stray beam upset you how, then can youstand the full rays of the glorious son of happiness?” The last Thursduy of November dawns ¥.'A hazy sun climbs y ladder of dawn, and the whole atmosphere is porvaded with savory odors that hint of a coming feast. pigantic turkey is turning from gold to vichest prown in the Van Hamm oven, Mother Van Huamm, in white cap and apron, is acting high priestess, and Les- lie, soberly smiling, flies hither and thither at every command. And when the noon bells chime, and the noon whistles blow, and a certain young man comes hurriedly home from his ofice, whither he has” gone for his mail an hour since, he finds the great fowl promptly ||luu'il upon the table, the tiny bell set ringing its silvery summons to dinner, and tho ladies of ‘his household each standing behind her chaiv in the (1illh|",:“l"<ln"|. “Why, Leslic, are! Hless me, who cooked i7" “Both of us, giving; have yc give thanks for? I have, mother—for my wife, Leslie, dear Leslie, n more than satisfied with you in‘every way; more than thank- ful that you are my" wife, even though mother fhinks—" “That she is the dearest, sweetest, truest, loveliest, hest little wife in all the world. Forgive yourold mother’s pldy acting, my boy; but you had to be made to see your own good fortune—that of unconsciously posscssing an angel Yes, it is sl true, Leonard; and now low me to answer the question I read in your questioning eyes, I took the reins, iy son, and showed you at what a veck: loss pace you were driving—and’l stopped you, I believe, just this side of the awful abyss already so filled with the wrecked happiness of many another misdirected, married pair. And now, with your eyes opened at last,to the gol den sunshine of a perfect, unselfish 10 lift up your voice, my son, and gl thanks this day unto heav at from that doty dear, how prompt you what'a famous turkey— My son, this is Thanks- any special thing to The coal mining industries of Trinidad, Colo,, are something really wonderful. The mines are what ure commonly called the “side-hill mines” so frequently found in Pennsylvania and other mountain mining re- gions. There are three veins of coal, the upper one seven to twelve feet thick, and so easily mined that the miners at per ton frequently make to exceed £100 per month. 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I carty sweet hope With firlm QAus SOAPR, As a cargo __glear as can be, Made only by NX Farsanx & Go. CHICAG!L ASK YOUR GROCER FORIT. " NO EXPERIMENTS! IMMEDIATE STRENGTH! THE DE GROOT Eleu- Gt REGENERATOR s something absolutely new in medicine, a perfect littlo wander, performing cures in the most abstinuie cases of Lost or Failing Powér, Nervous Dobility Kirophy of the parte, oters without troubl ntion on the part of the person using | It i8 80 plain and simple in it conktruction that anyone can apply it Its eicts are almost fnsiantaucous, wud the good results go on iucreasing from l’nv to day. RELAPSES 0T POSSIBLE becauso it retains ite power for years, and ansone fecling the slightest weakness can at once A7ply it a0d quickly cut short auy ovil ‘tendency and mum Ilm pm. m mn hcalth and strength. For men, who feel that their virile strength {sdecreasing, this electri- cal marvel {8 unequaled, Reaching, as it does, the very fountain of FAILING POWER manly vigor, {t £oon restores the Jocal nerves and museles to full ower, No matter how many times you may have failed heretofore, you may employ this little [astrainent with the cortality of success, EXHAUSTION The constant current of galvanism flowing directly through tho NEH&OUS DEBILITY ETe neres affected, stimulates and strengthens them, and by re- = storing contractile power to the seminal vesicles and ducts, prevents the constant drain and flow of vital fluid which so weakens and destroys. N BlADDER DISEASES Persons having Inflammation of the Bladder, Painful Urina- tion, Gravel, Enlurged Prostate Gland, and like Disorde should nover glve up hope untll they have tésted the Regenerator, 11§ action in such com plaints is marvelous, us the many testimonials in our possession very plainly show. VARICOCELE curcd easily and painlessly by our new method. IN HEADACHES, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, RHEUMATISM, and all painful Nervous Af- fections, the gentle current which flows from' the Regenerator {s truly o natural remedy, Itis casily applied to any affected part, and its results are almost instantaneous. THE REGENERATOR RECOMMENDS ITSELF | We depend for the cxtension of onr business upon the recommendations of grateful and plensed patients who have used the Regenerator and are willing to ackuowledge its merits, and getone of these little Medical Marve and if it is not exnctly as represented. v money back, for we can always fing plenty of customers, MEN OTHERWISE SOUND who ind thelr mower Jost of declining, will ind in this appliance o most useful and worthy little instrument, and it will prove of the greatest Talue toall who are weak, nervous or debilitaied. 82” We number among our patrons and patients Doctors, es, Congressmen, Clergymen, Bankers and Mer. Pty BENT POST-PAID. 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