Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — Did Not Care For Expense. [ARTICLE]

Did Not Care For Expense.

A round-faced, apple-cheeked and pleasant looking little old man Sat by the side of his rather acridlooking and elderly wife on tht> way .home from an excursion trip, or, as the okl man called it, “a little excursion on foot/’ He was full of delightful memories of all he had seen and heard, but his wife looked sad and unsmiling. - Presently the old man pulled out a little old buckskin bag and shook a silver dime and a nickle out of it. “There, Arimentv,” he said to his wife, as he held out the money on the palm of his hand, “there’s all that’s left out of as 2 bill .1 tuk for spendin’ money. ” “I know it, Nathan, and I think it’s turrible,” replied the. wife. “Shucks, T don’t. I b’lievc in havin’ a good time when you set out to.” “We could of liarl a good time ’thout wastin’ all that money.” “Wastin’ it?” Shucks! Hatn't it right for a feller to hev a little enj’yment out of this life!” “One ken hev enj’ynlcnt without committin’ all sorts of sinful extravagance. It jist makes me sick to think o’ how you’ve flung money ’round to-day.” “What’d I git that *.vas so dretful extravagant?” “Well, you went beyond all reason in ev’rything. What airthly need was there of ye buyin' soda water twice?” “’Cause I wanted it twice.” “Oh, yes; you alius was one to pamper the flesh. An’ what airthly need had we o’ that ten cents’ worth of bologna sossige? Five cents’ worth would o’ been a-plenty.” “We et it all, jist the same.” “Et it? Of course, we ct it; you reckon I was goin' to add waste* to extravagance by throwin’ any of it away? An’ what need had we o’ them sweet crackers when we’d tuk along more gud bread au’ butter an’ pie than we could cat?” “I think sweet crackers go mighty good once in a while.” “Well, wc ain’t made o’ money to spend on high livin', no matter what’s good. An’ look at them- peanuts you went and bought. Baif ’o them was bad. Peanuts air onhealthy things anyhow/* “Then you’d ort to be glad that half of ’em was bad for us to eat." “They cost five cents all the same. An’here I been chilly and mizzablc all day on 'count that ice-cream I did my best to keep you from ordering I knowed it 'wouldn’t agree with my stummick.” “You oughten’t to of et it, then." “I had to eat it after you’d went and wasted good money for it It jest seemed as though you was bound and determined to fling money way to-day; you acted like you wasa millionaire, I declare if you didn’t Nathan Sipes.”