Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-02-18
From the American Mocha MIC
The Me q c's Wife.
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BY CHARLES QUILL.

CHARLES QUILL
In America, every Mechanic is supposed TO
have or TO be about to have a wife. The many
thousands Of these spoases divided into many
SORTS Thus We have good and bad; very good
and very bad; and-as a sort Of par expression
folerable. Il is no: every woman who IS good
wife; nor is il every good wife who is good
wife for a mechanic. a working needs
working wife; but as to equaliiies of minds,
manners and morals, she cannot run too high in
the scale. There is an error prevalent concern
ing this.
Giles sayp, 81 do not want wife with too
much sense" Why not? perhaps Giles will no,
answer; but the shrug Of his shoulders answers,
"Becauee ] am afraid she will be oyerma ,ch
for me-" Giles talks like a simpe,on. The
unfortunate men who have their tyran,s at home,
are never married to women of sense. Genuine
elevation Of mind cannot prompt any one, male
female, to go out Of his or her sphere. No man
over suffered from overplus Of intelligence,
whether in his head in his wife's.
Hodge Gays, II will no; marry a girl with too
mnch manners" Very we'll. Hodge: you
right; too much of thing is bad. Bu, consid
er wha, you say. Perhaps you mean that a fine
lady would not suit you. Very true; should
not desire TO see you j)ined for life to what is
called Sine lady," To wit. 10 woman Who treats
you as beneath her level, sneers If your friends,
and il above her business. Bat this is not good
manners. Real good manners and true pollteness
nre equally at home III courts and farm houses
This quality springs from nature, and IS the ex-
preston Of unaffected good viii. Even in high
life, the higher you go the simpler do manners be.
come. Paradise and fuss Of manners the
marks Of half bred people. True simplicity and
native good will. and kind regard for the conve
nience aud feelings of others, viii ensure good
manners. even IN a kitchen; and have seen
many vulgar dame IN an assembly, and many
geniiewoman in humble shed. Nay, your wife
must have good manners.
jnh al l ma
wife who Is too strict and m0ral.' Now, my
good Ralph, you talk nonsense: Who laugh, YOU
that cant? l perceive you DO not know VIVA.
you mean? Are you afraid your wife will be TOO
v,riuous?
"Then you rather prefer moral wife to an
immoral oDe!"
"Sureiy."
"Are you afraid, then, Of a religious wife ?"
"Why somelhing like that was IA my head; Tor
there is ncighbor Smiths wie. who gives him no
peace Of his life, she Is SO religious"
.Let me hear how she behaves herself"
"Why, she is forever teaching the children out
of the Bible"
"Indeed! And you. Ralph, are an enemy Of
the BIble2"
..Oh no. But then-ahem-thero IS reason IN
oil things" I
Yes and tho reason you have just given is
tina, OF a child, and, like the child's because, is
made 10 do hard service. Blu, let us understand
you. Does Mrs. Smith teach the children any
wrong?'
"Oh, no! but plague it all! if one of them hears
Smith lie, fly oath, i, begins to preach to him "
Then you wish, when you have children, to
have liberty 10 teach them all the usual oaihs and
curses and obscene jokes. that are common?
"Dear me, Mr. Quill, you wont understand me-"
eyes, understand yol full; il ls you, Ralph,
who do not understand yourself. Look here
Mrs. Smith is so religious that If she proceeds as
sho has begun, her children will break their
father Of his low blasphemes. hope you may
get such wife,"
s'Bnt then, Smith can't spend couple Of hours
at tho tavern for fear of his wife"
"Ah! what does he go to the tavern forY'
sJus, to sit and chat, and drink little"
.'And how does his wife interfere? Does she
fetch him home?"
ono"
.Does she chas,se him on his returns"
60, no.'
"Does she scold him ,hen?' t
"No"
"Wha, is il then that dsturubs him?" h
'.Why, she loks solemn and mournfn'. and n
huts herself up and cries, Whenever he IS d
title bi, disguised. tina. The man has no sa''s'ao-
ion" T.
"Good! And pray be may have none until
10 alters his Of life
A proper elf-respect would teach every noble
hearted American, of Whatever cass. that he =
ammo, Sc, too high value the conjusal rela
ion We nav lodge Of the honor and wealth OF !
, community by lis wives and mothers. OPpor- =
antics for acquiring kno" ledge aud even accom- $
,lishmen,s, are happily open to every class from
he lowest: and the wise mechanic will not tail =
% get such a companion as may not Shame MS u
IONS md daughters in that coming age, when an f
onnrnnt American shall be a fossil fish.
Away with Hunting, giggling, dancing. squan- !
Ier,ng, peevish, fashion huning wives. The "o' :
nan at this stamp poor comforter when the
.aor husband IS sick bankrupt. Give me the ,
who can be "hel mate" TO her Ad- i
IN: IL
ssFor nothing ovelier can be found, q
In woman, than study household good,
And good works in her husband promote" r
have such a mschs mes wife in my minds :
we; gentle as the antelope; untiring rs the bee;
oyous as the linnet; neat. pnnciual, modest, con-
dag. She is patient. but resolu,e; aiding IN {