Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-06-23
FROM THE TRENTON EMPORIUM.
PLAQUES OF MATRIMONY.

II was Seucldl training Gay, anu WIFI
scarcely an exception, every good wife
in the village was left in the sole pos
session of her domiciI; for in the coun-
Try, few either economical or spend
thrift husbands neglect the opportunity
OF saving their fines by personal APP
pearance on the field of action-and AS
the male part Of the several households
were not to be exp ected home until late
ia the evening, an idea by, some means
crept into the brain Of an Anticipated
widow lady, Mrs. Gray, who lived at the
lower end OF the street, TO get her
neighbours together that they might
talk over the concerns of the neighbour
hood, and right what was seemingly
wrong In domestic matters by general
conference, over toast and tea, aud some
fine currant wine and cake, of which
she was always famed for keeping the
very best.
Tabby Gray was the oracle Of the
village; her ear was made the deposit
tory Of nine-tenths OF the compliments
which her female friends wonderland
the reader will perhaps be little aston:
ished to learn that at least nine-tenths
ofthose sell-same compliments, even in
the peaceable, weIl-manured, and old
fashioned hamlet Of the Willows, lay a.
gainst-husbands. Such was the fact
however, and thus it came that, in her
motheriy care over the peace and com
Tort of her neighbors, she made an es-
pecial resolve that this meeting should
be composed of such, and such only, as
had, at one time or other, expressed to
her some manner of dissatisfaction with
the matrimonial moose into which their
necks had slipped, through various de-
vices, of those sly rogues Cupid and Hy-
men, so termed in fashionable circles.
AN hour or two after dinner, there
fore, all the discontinued wives within
mile square, were assembled at Mrs.
Gray's-the good old lady, with some
what magesteria. air,which perhaps the
consciousness Of her long and undisputed
reign Of superiority had given her, sat
at the head of the room, with a smile
of oPenness which banished reserve.
and an ear attentively bent, seeming, at
once, TO invite the free communication
ofsentiment, anl to promise a sage COR
receive application.
After the weather and the dust, and
few i'll wishes to training days, with
some other small matters connected
with the village affairs, wese disposed
OF, every tongue went to work, pei nell
discussing the subject for which they
had assembled
Mrs. Hutton entered most grievous
complaint against her husband Bill, whose
propensity to romp about with the young
girls she had been trying three long
years to break, without success, and
whose company she had long thought
he preferred to hers. All, said Mrs.
Dawson, you may well put up with that
if he behaves decentIy when at home ,
one would think to see and hear him
abroad that there was not better tenn
pered fellow in the village, than Harry
Dawson, but after fiddling among all
the neighbors until night, he comes
home, hangs up his fiddle and his hat to-
gether, and smile is no more seen up
on his face until he takes them down
again.--l could put up with any thing
but i'll nature. III nature, said an old
fat woman in the corner, why, I'd new
er open my mouth about an ill-natured
hus6andLfd match him-l'd tire him
out at that; wish you had my husband,
who laughs from morning TO night and
is so easy and good natured, that every
body imposes on him, I'd rather have a
drunkard than such fellow, if had IA
gain ID choose between two evils. To
hear ones husband called soft Dickson
Sawney Dickson-and all such kind OF
things. is misery unbearable that
1 is not all Dickson is just as headstrong
as the old Harry; not knowing that
am the better hand at managing bar
galn,he never even consults me-does all
his business in his own foolish way, and
never pleases me in 4 single thing he
does. Still, said little crimsed up
dame at her side, | think between You
and me, you have much the best of the
bargain.--My husband for all the world
is equal TO yours in every thing but in
dustry he is as good nature4- as care.
less, and all-out as stupid; but its intol-
eiably hard for ii woman TO have her
own and her husbands work all on her
shoulders Tom does nothing but ham,
mer away in the shop; have to settle
his accounts, collect his money, pay his
debts, and make his bargaius--in the
name OF heaven, 10 woman 10 her right
senses ought to crave such life.
Here then in this circle the matter
had come down to point. These good
danes were mated TO, Il sprightly nus
band. a surly husband-a good natured
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