Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-04-13
4 MARRIED MANS REVERE.

A MARKED MANS REVERE.
What blockhead nv brother Tom is,
not to marry! or rather prehaps, should
say, what blockhead not to marry some
twenty-five years ago, for suppose he'd
hardly get any decent ssrt of "a body TO
take him, as old as he is now. Poor fel-
low! what forlorn, desolate kind of
life he leads; no wife to take care ofhim
no children to love him-no domestic
enjoyment-nothing snug and comforta-
BILE in his arrangements at home-nice
social dinners-pleasant faces at break
fast. BY the way, what the deuce is the
reason my breakfast does not come up?-
Eve been waiting for this half hour. Oh,
| forget; my wife sent tho cook 10 mar
ket to get some trash or other for Dicks
cold. She coddles that boy to DEATH
But after all, ought not 10 find fault with
Tom for not getting wife, for he has
lent me good deal of money, that came
quite convenient, and suppose The young
ones will have all he's worth when he
dies, poor fellow! They'll want it, I'm
afraid; for although my business does
very well, this housekeeping eats up the
profits, with such large family as mine.
Let US see; how many mouths have to
feed every day3 There's my wife and
her two sisters-that's three; and the four
boys--seven, and Lucy and Sarah and
Jane and Louisa, four more-eleven; then
there's the cook and the housemaid, and
the bOy--fourieen; and the woman that
comes every day 10 wash and do odd jobs
abou, the house-ffteen; then there's the
nursery .maid--sixteen; surely there must
be anOther-I'm sure made it out sew
enteen when was reckoning up last
Sunday morning at church; there must
be another somewhere; let me see again
wife, wiIe's sisters, boys, girls--oh, it's
myself Faith, | have so many TO think
of and provide for, tbatI forget myself
half the time. Yes, that makes it-sev-t
enteen. Seventeen people to feed every
day is no Joke! and somehow or other
they all have most furious appetites, but
then bless their hearts,it's pleasant to see
them eat. What havoc they do make
with the buCkwheat-cakes ofa morning
10 be sue. Now poor Tom knows moth
ng Of all this. There he lives all alone ]
BY himself in boarding house, with no.
body near him that cares brass farthing
whether he lives or dies. No affection :
tie wife to nurse him and cOddle him up r
phen he's sick; no little pratllers about !
lin to keephim ia good humor-no q
lawning intellec!s, whose development h
70 can amuse himself with watching day a
lfter day--nosody to study his wshes,and $
,eep aIlhis comforts ready. COnfOund O
/, hasn't that woman got back from mar c
,et yet? '
feel remarkably hungry. Idon't mind
he boys being coddled and messed, if Z
ny wife likes It, but there's no. joke in v
laving the breakfast kept back for an u
Iour. o, by the way, | must remember I
o buy all those things for the children i
o-day. Christmas is close at hand, and d
nv wife has made out list of the pres v
nts she means to put in their stockings.
lore expense-and their school bills U
coming in too; remember before | was l
married. use to think what delight it
would be to educate the young rogues l
ayself; bnt man with large family has
% time for that sort of amusement. lis
Vonder how old my young Tom is; let {
ne see, when does his birth day comet s
ext month, as I'm Christian; and then {
e will be fourteen. Boys of fourteen c
onsider themselves all but young men,
ow-s-days, and Tom is quite of that /
mind, see. Nothing will suit his ex- I
Iuisite feet but Wellington boots, at a
hirty shilhngs paIr;a and his mother has d
een throwing out hints for some time I
$ 10 the propriety Of gettinga watch for /
Iim-gold of course. Silver was quite q
Iood enough for me, when | was half a |
cole years olderthan he is, but times are {
.wfully changed since my younger days. !
Thenl believe'in my soul, the young Will q
an has learned TO play Billiards; aud I
hree or four times lately when he has
;Ome in late at night, his clothes seem
ID to be strongly Perfumed with cigar 9
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