The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-12-09
7 h G W ife's T hreat.
eff MY HUSBAND WERE TO DO So"
a DOMESTIC INCIDENT.

DOMESTIC INCIDENT
'Poor woman! What thousand pities il is for
hsr!" said Mrs Grimes, with feeling; al wonder
how she stauds it. If my husband were to act so, it
would kill me-"
81 wonld never stand il in tho world" added Mrs.
Pitts. alt is dreadful situation for a woman to DO
placed in. Mr. Larkin used be one Of the best Of
men, ard took the best possible of his family
For yenrs there was not happier woman in town
than his wife, but it makes ones heart ache to
look at her. Oh! it be one Of the most
hear, rendiog things in the world to have a drunk
en- husband"
"WeI, all I've got to say" spoke up Mrs Peters,
with warmth, 'is, that DON'T pity her much ~
"Why, Mrs Peersi Hon can you talk sou
"WeIl, don't. Any who will live with
drunken husband don't deserve pity. Why don't
she leave him?'
"Tha is easier said than done, Mrs. Peters"
81 should think it great deal easier to leave than
TO live with drunken brute, and have her life tor
mented out OF her. If my husband were to do so, /
reckon he and would part before twenty. four
hours''
Now Mrs. Peters husband was a mos: excellent
MAINLAND a sober witho And his wife was
tendely attached to him. In regard his ever be-
running off and leaving her. Still when she made
the last remark, she looked towards him (or he was
presently with stern and significant expression on
her counicnance. This not really meant for him
but for the imaginary individual she had supposed as
bearing the relation towards her Of a drunken hus-
band
"You would, would your" Mr. Peters replied TO
the warmly expressed resolution uttered BY his wife
"Yes,that wonld!" half Iaughogiy and half seri
ously retor,ed Mrs. Peters.
"You don't know what you are talking about, :"
spoke Mrs Grimes.
"lndeed then, do! consider any woman fool
who will live with drunken husband. For my part
have not a spark of sympathy for the wives OF
drunkards-I mean those who live with the men who
beggnr and abuse them. Mere disgusting bru,es-
the very sight of whom ought to turn woman's
stomach"
"You were never placed in such situation, and
therefore are not competent TO decide how far wo-
man who continues to live with drunken husband
is or is MOTTO blame. For my part, am inclined to
think that, in most cases, TO live with husband I'M
der these circumstances, is at least two evils
This was said by Mrs. Pitts.
''l think you right there" resumed Mr. Peters
"a woman feels towards her own husband the faith
er Of her children, and the who in lifn's spring
time won her best and purest affections, very differ
emily from what she does towards another man. She
knows all his good qualities, and remembers how
iendery he has loved her. aud how he would still
love her but for the mad infauation from which he
feels impossible to break away. The hope that he
will reform never leaves her. When she looks at her
children, though abused and neglected, she
cannot but hope for their father, and this hope keeps
her up.
"Any woman is fool TO feed herself up with such
fancies. There is only one remedy and that is sepnr
alton. That's what will do, and every woman of
sense ought 10 do. Don't tell me about hope of re-
forming It's all nonsense You would't catch me
breaking my heart after this fashion, FOR any man..
Not l." said Mrs. Peters.
The more Mrs Grimes, and Mrs. Pitts, and others
present argued their side OF the question, the
pertinacionsy did she maintain the position she had
assumed, until Mr. Peters could not help feeling some
what ,exed and some little hurt He being her hus-
band, and the only who conld possibly hold the
relation towards whom all her Indignation di-
rected-under the imaginable possibility Of his be-
coming tipper.
After while the subject was dropped, and at the
close of the evening" tho friends separated and went
to their homes.
1t was, perhaps, two months from the period at
which this conversation occurred that Mr. Peters left
his home early in the evening. to attend political
meeting, politics at that time running high.
lie was in the habit Of attending such meetings,
but as he was a sober man, too, of strong good sense
and firm principle the thought of his partahing
too freely, never crossed the mind of his WIFE
Regular in his habits, he WIS rarely out after ten