Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-03-08
If Ey Husband were to do so,

Poor woman. VIVA, thousand pities il is
for hcr' sad Mrs Grimes with feeling wonder
how she standst If my husband were 10 do so,
1t would kill me-
! i could never stand it in the world added
! Mrs. Pits. III - dreadful situation for a wo.
man TO bo placed IN Mr. Larkin used 10 be one Of
tho best Of men. and took The bes, possible care
Of his family. For years there no, a ha
pier woman in town than his wife, but it
makes ones heart ache 10 look at her. Oh. it
mus, be one of the most hear, breaking things
IN tho world 10 have drunken husband
| We'll, all I've got to say spoke up Mrs. Pc
tors. with warmth, is that don, pity her much
'Whv, Mrs. Pe,crs! How can you talk So
well, | don't. Any woman who will live with
a drunken husband don't deserve pity. Why
don't she leave him!'
.Fha, is easier said than done, Mrs. Peters,
Il should think it great deal easier than to
live with a drunken brute, and have her life
tormentei out Of her. 1t my husband we're
to do so, reckon hun and me would part before
| NV eniy four hours
Now Mrs. Peters husband was a most excellent
man-and a sober man, wihal. And his wife
was very tenderly attached TO him. In regard
to his ever becoming n drunkard she had as lit
tie fear as OF his running off and leaving her
Sill, when she mide tho last remark, she looked
towards him Cor he was presenD with a stern
and significant expression of her countenance.--
This not really meant for him. but for the
imaginary indiv dual she bad supposed as bear.
ing the relation towards her-a drunken hus.
band.
you would, would you? Mr.. Peters replied
TO the warmly expressed resolution uttered by
his wife.
Yes, ,ha, I would.' half laughing, and half Sc
rlous, retor,ed Mrs Peters
You don't know what you talking about
spoke Mrs. Grimes.
Indeed. then,I do. consider any woman fool
who viii isse with drunken husband. For my
part have no, spark of sympathy for The
the wives of drunken husbands-I mean those
who live with them. who beggar and abuse them.
Mere Disgusting brutes-the very sight Of " HON
is enough TO turn woman's stomach
You were never plac ed 10 such a situation,
and therefore not competent TO decide how
far n woruau, Who continues 10 live with n drunk
Husband, is or is not TO blame. For my part,
n Inclined II think. that IN mos, cases to live
with the husband under these circumstances, is
the least Of Two evils
This was said by Mrs Pitts.
Il think you are right there resumed Mr. Pc
tiers. "A woman feels towards her own bus
band the ia her Of her chdre ,snd the man " DO
IN LIES spring Time won her best and purest af-
fectlons very differently 10 what she does TO-
wards any other man. She knows all his good
qualities and remembers how ienderly he has
loved her, and bow he still would love her. bat
for the mad infatuation from which he feels 1t al
mos, impossible 10 break away. The hope 'ha,
he will reform leaves her. When she
looks a, her chli dren, even though abused and
neglected she canno, bu, hope tina, their father
will ultimately renounce bis evil HABITS. And
this hope keeps her up.
All nonsense Mrs. Peters replied warmly
Any fool 10 feed herself up with /
such fancies. There is only one true remedy /
and that is separation. That's what Id do and /
what every woman OF sense ought to DO. Don't |
tell me about hope Of reforming. lis all non 4
sense. You would not catch me breaking my
hear, after that fashion for any man. Not L.
The more Mrs. Grimes and Mrs. Pitts and i
others present urged their side of the question:
the more periinacous did she ma ANITA in the posi-
ton she assumed. until Mr.. Peters could not help
feeling somewhat vexed and some little hurt
He being her husband and the only who
could poss bly hold the relation towards her of
a drunken husband, he must be the man towards
whom all her indignation were direc:ed-under
the imagined possibility Of his becoming tipIer.
After ~niie the subject dropped. and Al
the close Of the social evening. the friends sep
arated and wen. TO their own homes