Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-03-25

case with her husband, wto had Just as much care
aud mental labor n conducting large business as
he wanted, and sometimes a little more. While
she was too often burden to herself from want Of
something to do, his mind was intensely interested
| in matters Of trade. She rose late, spent an hour
or two in visiting, killed two or three more over
new novel and il she did not 90 to some fashion,
able party the opera or the night, retired
early to bed, too much faigued by the toll Of the
day to keep up later than nine o'clock. She was
fond of music, and at one time performed with a
skill rarely attained in private circles; but the drudge
cry Of daily practice was ZOO much for her and she
lost the power over the instrument that once &C.
sponded with something like living intelligence
to her touch Nothing interested her, in which
there was not something more exciting than was 20
I be found at home Ia domestic duties and the
care of her children, she took little or no interest.
Her husband went to market, the waiter brought
home what he purchased and the cook prepared it
for the table. She rarely knew wha, fiod was pro-
yided until she sat down To eat it, The children
were washed aud dressed in the morning by a nurse,
I who took the entire care Of them, even in her
children she had little interest beyond natural
affection. Ifthey were sick, all her anxieties
aroused, aud she scarcely ate or slept while the
though, Of danger was in her mind-bul the mo-
ment they we're well again, all soliciiude for them
appeared TO subsde entirely.
] Mrs. Malonee Ear from being a happy wo.
man far from being happy even as the poor me
chanic's wife, opposite, who often enyied her the
ease and freedom from care and toll which she
oyed. As time passed on, the resilessness or APP
aihy, rs il might be- Of his wife, began to awaken
the concern OF Mrs Malonee lie saw where The
evil lay, but had not The courage TO speak strongly
aud freely on The sabect,--io point out the cause
in neglect Of domestic duties, and the transfer to
others of offices which she should have taken de-
light in filling herself He rather yielded to her
desire for relief from present dizziness in some kind
y OF excitement other, even while he marked with
concern the effect that produced in deeper
depression Of mind aud more perfect indifference
to all the attractions of home, when the cause OF
excitement was removed
A few years more of such life. made Mrs NAL
once wreiched woman. She had become ner-
vous, ftetlul and discontinued In gay company,
she was among the gayest Of the gay but at home,
her spirits were down to zero.
: Thus stood matters when like a crash Of thunder
from a clear sky, fell upon her, without moment
! OF warning the distressing intelligence that her
husband had failed in business. His paper had
been dishonoted for large amount and oil his ei-
ecis paced Immediately IN the hands Of an assignee
for the benefit of his creditors. For more than a
month previous to this event, Mr. Malonee had been
unusually silent at home and had appeared thought
e full and depressed But, although his wife had been
, led TO notice this change, she was suffering too
5 much FROM her own mental disorders TO think OF
| enouiting into it, or to consider il of much nc.
| count. When he announced, with pale face and
trembling Inns The disaster that had be(allen him
|, She was stunned as from blow. This was real
!. trouble. Under imaginary trouble the mind sinks
4 and becomes palsied, while against real trouble il
reacts with healthy energy. Such was the case
now. But a short time elapsed before Mrs. Malonet
began think olherself; began TO feel for hei
$ husband in this great disaster that had befallei
and the desire 10 relieve this intensity of SUFFERING
a took possession Of her mind MOI am hour had Z.
!. lansed from the time she received The startling an
? aounccment before her Tears were dried mn an,
i she was by her husbands side making ofhm man,
earnest enquiries. q. ~.
y .What troubles me mos. he said, in answer Il
# some of her questions. 's the effect Of ali this up
% on nv family -l'~Tl =
!. mWhat will he lis e(Tectr, calmly asked Mr.,
Maonee. as she looked earnestly into her husband
ID face. "Do not fear to tell me-" m
y This beautiful house will have 10 be sold.
g. shadow fitted over the counicnanee OF Mr.
ID Malonee; but II was gone IN a moment ~
L. 1--WE can be just as comfortable IN another house.
o. said she.
of "And not only the house, Emily resumed il
husband "all Of our rich furniture and costly plat
in must be given up. We will not be permitted I
We retain them"
IN Unjust that really be2' As the wife asked th
er question in voice that lrembed slightly she ut
ed her eyes again TO her husbands face, and wi,
e, look that troubled her spirit deeply
he at must, Emily he sad, iirmly III WIN taS
o. all the goods IN my store, all the debts DUO M
oy and all my real aud personal property IN the city
pay OF my creditors dollar Tor dollar, Would yo
il haycme withhold this costly furniture and wron