A Convenient Husband

I asked a plensunt looking Oerman womnn in market, ono c.'old orninjf, if it was not hard worl to como every raorning and mind her stall. ' 01, yes," was her ](!.!y. " h pr tty cold ; but I must do oraething. -1 di.i not uwc tu tend nmrket." I agked her bow it hsppned ihatlior ciroutnstanoes bd i ehanged. I" hr iir-okon Engüsh she told me the fuünwing story : '■ Me and my hasbwid cw..ie Irom Germán)', and on tho sua he dii i Vihen Vfo trot to St. Louis in: hu. n monish, arid four, fiv.o ch'ldi'ono Í mi's, í ron. I doeverything T can do, and I only g(it bread ; dan i gets siek ; wasbin' and ironin' too bard for me, o Sflidí L will go into he country and wnrk jardeo, so I sellsrny iranins' au;l thing, and works (jome more .. _■ twt'nty dollars, and then I renta man Riun oob nero of ground, and spadohin), and dig hiiii and wDik liím íM mysclf - fny boy only sevi then - and 1 rairc let tuce, nid lieets and oniona, and coen and uvei-yüiing, and I made monish. Tlieu in fv y i [ rent two aoresand then rny hoys and girls lielp pcnie, and I inivíá Iota "f nor.i-h. Then in fonr yeára I bv land, tlien I buïïds mé a kout i rtiid two yeara ago I gets mo a hushand." "Ifowdoyou get along now :'" T " Oh, very we.ll," she answercd, and with a inerry tvvinkle in her evo, sl.addud, " he i.3 the most eonyeijient thin ahout da house biit noy new cónk'n8 stove, He .pades my grouinl ftnd hélps me to get ready for rnarkat, and r,uie my baby while Icoma, for I knoV better as hovv to self, I beon kójn' -■