The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-04-24

tchalr, sick OF Turkey -Dosom-loving young
ladies of Boarding School.
Columbus, HISS.
Gloves and Cigars.
From Peterson's Ladies National Maya
zine for April, we make. an extract, which
we particularly recommend to husbands who
smoke q glrs and grumble at the cost Of Their
wives gloves and handkerchiefs
ri MUST really havea new pair of gloves
James, said Mrs Morris to her husband
las they sat together after tea.
Mr.. Morris had been reading the after.
noon paper, but he laid this down and look
ed Grossly up.
eRealiy,' he. said, ssyou seem to me tc
waste more money on gloves than any wo
man | ever knew. It was only last week ]
gave you money to buy a new pair. =
j The wife colored, and was about to an
swer tartly for she felt that her husband
had no cause for his cfossness; but remem.
bering that ga soft answer turneth away
wrath, she said,
ssSurely you have forgotten, James II
was more than month sinceI bought my
last pair of gloves, and I have been out j
great deal, as you know, in that time"
"Humph!' And, having pronounced
these words, Mr.. Morris took up the paper
again.
For several minutes there was silence
The wife continued her sewing, and the
husband read sulkily on: at least as if sensi-
bic that he had been unnecessarily harsh, he
yentured to remark by way of indirect apol-
ogy.
Business is very dull, Jane,o he said
''and sometimes / do not know where t.
look for money. / ssn hardly making my
expenses
The wife looked upswith. tears in hel
eyes
Il am sure, James, she said, "that /
try to be as economical as possible. | went
without new silk dress this winter, because
the one | got last spring would answer, /
thought, by having new body made to it.
My old bonnet, too, was re-trimmed. And
as to the gloves, You know you are very par
ticular about my having gloves always nice,
and scold, if | appear in the street with a
shabby pair on.
Mr.. Morris knew all this to be true, and
felt still more ashamed of his conduct; how
lever, like most men he was too proud to con-
fess his error except indirectly.
He took out his pocket-book and said,
GLOW much will satisfy you for year,
not for gloves only, but fora all the other eject
eras? will make you an allowance, and
then you need not ask me for dollar, when
ever you want "a pair of gloves, or new
handkerchief"
The wife's eyes danced with deligh She
thought for moment, and then said,
81 viii undertake, on fifty dollars, to find
myself in all these things
Mr. Morris dropped the newspaper as if
it had been red-hot, and stared at his wife.
II believe" he said, oyou women think
that we men are made of money; I don
spend fifty dollars in gloves & handkerchiefs
in half dozen years.
Mrs. Morris made noreply for a full min
ute, for she was determined to keep her tenn
per. But the quickness with which her nee
die moved showed that she had some difficult
#ty to be amiable. At last she said,
"Bnt how much do you spend in cigars?'
This was home-thrust, for Mr. Morris
was an inveterate smoker; and consumed
twice as much on this needless luxury as the
sum his wife asked Hepicked up the paper
and made no reply.
II don twish you to give up smoking, since
you enjoy it so much, ? she said ''Butsure-
" acigar is no more necessary to a gentle
man than are gloves and handkerchiefs to a
lady; andi you expend hundred dollars in
one, I don tsee why you should complain Of
my wishing fifty dollars for another.
Pshaw,3 3 said the husband, finally, 81
don tspend a hundred dollars in cigars It
can be.
4 oub bring home a quarter box every three
weeks and each box, you say, costs about
six dollars, which, at the end of the year
makes a total of one hundred & four dollars. 3
Mr. Morris fdgetted on his seat. His
wife had her advantage, and smiling to her
self pursued il -
you had counted up, as / have, every
dollar you have given me for gloves, handlyer-
chiefs, shoes and rib bons, duringa year, you
would find it amounted to full fifty dollars
and, if you had kept statement Of what
your ci CARS cost, You would sec that / ann cor
rect in my estimate as to them. =
"a hundred dollars = Tt can t be- said
the husband determined not to be convinceds
Let us make bargain, replied the
wife Put into my hands hundred dol I
lars to buy cigars for you, and fifty to pur-
chase gloves and etcetras for me I proln-
Use faithfully to administer both accounts
with this stipulation, that, at the end of q
year, am to retain all / can save of the IF /
ty, and to return to youall that remains Of /
the hundred = =
ct is agreed win pay quarterly be-
ginning With 10 niaht :, And he took out |.
Els purse, and counted tlirt sFseyen dollars
and a half into bis hand.
And how did tie bargain turn out 0ufs
fair readers hnYe ND I'D Cd ksscd alreaeys
Jane continued during the year to supply