Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-02


ten minutes the bell rung
Tell Sarah that Mr.. Lundy couldn't wait, and
that don't want any dinner, said Mrs. Lundy
TO her waiter
As for the very punctual aud amlable hus-
band, he went to his store and sat through the
entire afternoon, without putting hand OF thought
to business A little more patience would have
lost him nothing, and made both himself aud his
wife happier.
After Mr.. Lundy left the house his wife tried
to do some PLAIN sewing for her children that
was very much needed But what with the
binding pain in her head and face, and the bin
ding tears in her eyes, she found it impossible
to take a stitch correctly So she laid aside
her work and took the baby, thinking to nurse
her if she could do nothing else But the baby
wide awake and full of life, was not content to
sit quietly in her lap; but must be dancing and
Jumping every moment. Patiently, for nearly
an hour, did the mother bear the jar and shack
of the chlId's quick motions until sensation
of lautncss overcame her, and she was very near
falling from her chair. After resignng the baby
Mrs. Lundy went into her chamber aud laid her
self upon the bed She had taken little or no
food that day; had been suffering from severe
pain; had been worried and excited with the
children, and worse than all, her husbands I'M
sympahsing and unfeeling conduct had made
her feel wreIcbed. Is it any wonder that she
felt i'll or that when Mr.. Lundy returned in he
evening he should find her in condition re-
curing medical treatment?
The doctor was called in. He did not un-
derstand her case How could he? The med
cine lie gave created strong revulsion in her
system, and did her actually more harm than
good She was confined two weeks to her
chamber, and then went forth again into her
household, weak and more nervousy sensitive
than before, to direct, control and minister to
the wants of her ever wanting ever active chill
dren and to wait upon her husband consult his
tastes, and bear bis complaints whenever anything
that went wrong in the household abridged his
comfort in the smallest degree.
Not less than three or four times in year
was Mrs. Lundy made sick in the way described.
{ When she was bending under the burden that
was too heavy for her, her husband, instead of
tightening, he might easily have done, the load,
or given her strength to bear it, laid on the ad-
ditiona weight that chrushed her to the earth.
But no one expected this; not even Mr.. l.uu-
| dy himself The idea that he was numbering
his wife by slow aud creuI death, would have
shocked him; and he would have felt the init
/ nation Of such thing as an objectionable out
! rage And yet such was really the fact. He
f was numbering ler.
I Year after year her duties and her toll ill.,
creased. The history Of day that we have
t given was an epitomized history of her life MIR
y Lundy, wrapped up in his schemes of gain, anc
rigid in hir notions of order, punctuallty, iurm1
proprieies, had no real sympathy fer his wife anc
+ was ever complaining Of the little irregularities
o incident to his household and ever adding to
instead of relieving, the oppressive, wearying ant
r ever recurring duties that were bearing her down
$ 1t was common thing for him, robust and il
e high health, to sit III his easy chair, with dress
: ing gown and slippers, ard ask his tired wife
d who could scarcely move without feeling pain
to hand him this, that, or the other thing to rin
the bell for the servant, or even to 90 up to thei
s. chamber and bring him something from drawer
Il w NIlCh nv WIS HVt WlllIl5 tbdl d upulCSlI
n should 60.
o Mceker, more patient more loving in her cha
racter, grew Mrs Lunday. BY suffering, sh
Y. was purified 1t made the heart ache to Sc
her moving by the side of her erect. horid, elias
a tic-treading husband, more like pale, shadow
form, than reel substance; and to feel assure
at that in very little while the places that knee
Al, H., l., 81 h.,
d, would know her and love her no more.
e. AT last she died, and six little ones were lie
n without the affectionate care of mother If he
husband, who wept so bitterly over her too cal
or ly grave did not murder her. we know not tn
ne meaning of the word murder. When it was to
late he could remember her long suffering, he
ne patience, her wrongs received at his bonds; BIT
rs while she lived he was too selfish to appreciat
he or properly care for her.
or Everywhere, in books Of domestic econom,
It in tales, essays, newspaper paragraphs, and l
current conversation, do we hear iterated an
,e reiterated The lesson of womau's duty to he
r. husband and in her household. She must hay
n everything in order, aud study the art of plea
re ing her lord as scduously as if he we've the mo-
ly captous. exacting tyrant in the world. AM
verify, in his small way, he too often is mise
er able tYrant. A woman is expected to be pc
It's feet in everything No allowance is made f,
the i'll health conseqent upon her maternal DIT
I'd ties nor for the peculiar, wearying, and all-el
ss crossing nature Of the cares attendant thereof
| But who writes and talks of the hushand's d.
nv ties! Who teaches him lessons of forbearanc
ey patience, and kind consideration for his ov,
at asked vile? Little is said on this score; II
lily world goes on, and hundreds like Mrs Lund
lot go down to the grave years before their tim
and no one dreams that their husbands are a
er cessories to their death. But it is even so. N
ut in maternal duties alone lies the cause of Il
no wle's pale face and dropping form, but in Il
in over-tasks of her peculiar position She
DIS worked too hard-harder than a slave in Il
an cotton field. Too often she is nurse and sem
stress for half dozen children, and superin
sh endent of her household besides She will Der
ks, over her needle night after night, in pain.
all suffering from assitude, while her husband 81