Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-04-21
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From THE TRENTON EMPORIUM.
THE TEA TABLE,

TIE TEs1 I.4ELE,
Well, sir, can take care of nv
SELF said Julia Pellew to her husband
as they were taking their tea together
IN their little paclor, one delightful sum
mer afternoon. Just at that moment
and while the words were yet on heI
tongue, the door opened, aud Miss Poi.
iy Cav entered the room, on one of hcl
flying afternoon visits. Julia could moi
avoid coloring up title at this sudden
intrusion for This young lady's visits
were always Intrusive, and Miss Cav
evidently saw or suspected she had drop
ped III at amoment when her company
was not the most desirable. However,
sac got herself seated, and entertained
her good neighhor with history of the
home concerns OF every family in the
nelShEorhood, about three hours long.
There was Il minute and detailed &C
count OF Mrs. DIS party, with a list OF
al "Ao were n0t invlied, among whom
she was most careful to remind that she,
Julia, was one; then the progress Of the
courtshIps in the country; the domestic
aquaaOles OF her acquaintances the
scandals of the week; the motions of
me Old wldower who lived on the Ap-
pleby farm, betokening an approaching
union with the squ;re's daughter, and
who were jealous thereat; ami hun
dreI other topics, equally interesting
and profitable, were all spread out on
the carpet.
M. Pcllew had made his escape soon
from the table, and Miss Polly did aot
iaii 10 comment largely on the savage
4 unsociab'ity Of husbands, insisting that
they we're as restless and unhappy In
the marriage moose, as Gagged up tigers,
and instaacing how gay, and young, and
spruce 'ney immediately became, on
losing their wives; kindly and most
sympahetically adding, " If you were to
drop oil, my dear Julia, Mr.. Pellew
would, in ten days, be the most gallant
and agreeable man in the village"
Alter enjoying herself and entertaining
Jaild thus delightfully."- until it began to
grow la,e, she gathered up her knitting,
and sailed out TO make a call or two
more before she went home.
Mr.. and Mrs PelIew were young,
had been married but about wear. ana
were mutually as happy in their union
us love and v,rtne and similar tastes and
disF ositioas could make them. He was
engaged in business, which, with in
d0s,Fy and good management, yielded
him good living he had embarked in
1t, however, without capital of his own;
bnt Julia had IL considerable amount of
property, which, thong the principal
was not under her control, was the basis
upon which her husband was enabled to
gain the credit necessary in his business,
and he mad done so. This amiable fam
IL had numerous relatives and acquaint-
ances were looked upon by the good
aud sensible part of the neighborhood
as patterns OF virtue, and were general
Iy much beloved and admired.
The visit of their friend, Miss Polly,
was forgotten in day or two but things
began, before long, to wear rather a
strange aspect. Time after time, Mrs.
Pel!ew observed that her visitors, who
began to be much more numerous than
before, put on long faces, and in con-
doing strain lectured on the trials of
the marriage state, the necessity of for
bearance, and of christian patience,
mingled with sundry hints about the
SOVEREIGN rights of the sex, and the best
method OF managing unruly husbands,
with now and then kind of half ex-
pressed sympathetic pity for her, She
could not, for her life, understand what
all this meant-aDd attributed il to every
cause but the right one.
Nor was Mr.. Pellew to escape this
new and TO him unaccountable change
oil the current Of feeling among his
nelghbors towards them. The first
symptom he saw was coldness and
shyness Oh the part of his wife's rela-
tlves some OF them even refusing to
speak to him. The female part Of his
acquaintance scolded at him, and. what
was worse, he thought his customers
began to neglect him. Day by day
things grew worse-at last his creditors
began to push--he was alarmed
had never before been asked for none v
his credit had beed perfect-he won.
dered and waited for the issue it came