She said she had heard that I had
left a very good position on a Buffalo paper when I bought the
Eastridge Banner, and that the town ought to feel very much honored. My
wife suppressed her conviction that this was the correct view of the
case, in a deprecatory expression of our happiness in finding ourselves
in Eastridge, and our entire satisfaction with our prospects and
surroundings. Then Mrs. Talbert's mother inquired, as delicately as
possible, what denominations, religious and medical, we were of, how
many children we had, and whether mostly boys or girls, and where and
how long we had been married. She was glad, she said, that we had taken
the place next them, after our brief sojourn in the furnished house
where we had first lived, and said that there was only one objection to
the locality, which was the prevalence of moths; they obliged you to
put away your things in naphtha-balls almost the moment the spring
opened. She wished to know what books my wife was presently reading,
and whether she approved of women's clubs to the extent that they were
carried to in some places. She believed in book clubs, but to her mind
it was very questionable whether the time that ladies gave to writing
papers on so many different subjects was well spent. She thought it a
pity that so many things were canned, nowadays, and so well canned that
the old arts of pickling and preserving were almost entirely lost.
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