Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-05-23
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matter may destroy lie of enjoyment
and it usually happens that when the
married pair do quarrel, the occasion is
so desplcable that they are ashamed to
think OF 1t. Yet that silly circumstance,
like drop of ink discolorlng a whole
vessel of water, often spreads its inhu-
ence over the whole life. Just as
"a pebble in the streamlet scant
Has turn'd the course of many river;
A dew drop on the baby plant
Has warp'd the giant oak forever"
remember reading an exceedingly
painful illustration of these ideas, for
the truth of which the author pledged
his word.
A young couple had passed the first
few weeks Of their marriage at the house
of friend. Having at length occupied
their new home, they were taking their
first breakfast, when the following scene
| took place .... ..Ha
The young husband was innocenlly
opening boiled egg in an egg-cup. The
bride observed that he was breaking the
shell at what she thought The wrong eAd.
"How strange it looks" said she, "to
see you break your egg at the small end,
my dear. No one else does so-and il
looks so odd"
80, think il is quite as good-in fact,
better than breaking it at the large end,
my love; for when you break the large
end, the egg runs over the top replied
the husband.
"But it looks very odd, when no one
else does so,'' reioined the wife.
"Well, now, really do think it is not
nice way you have got of eating an
egg. That dipping of strips of bread
and butter into an egg certainly is not
tidy. But DO not object to your doing
as you please if you will let me break
my egg at the small end " retorted the
husband.
81 am sure my way is not so bad as
eating frnit pie with knife, as you do,
instead of using fork--and you always
eat the syrup, as if you were not accus-
toned to have such things. You really
do not see how very bad it, looks, or
am sure you would not do So" added
the wife. ).
"rhe syrup is made tobe eaten with
the pie, and why should | send it away
in the plate!' asked the husband.
mo well-bred persons clear up their
plates as if they were starved" said the
bride with contemptuous toss of her
head. a
"Well, then, am not well-bred per.
son." replied the husband, angrily.
"But you must be, if we are to live
comfortably together" was the sharp
answer of the faslidious lady.
"Well, | must break my egg at the
small end, SO ii does not signify-and
must also eat the syrup"
"rhen | will have neither fruit-pi nor
eggs at the table,"
"But Will have them," exclaimed
the husband.
"Ihen | wish had not been married
to you" cried the young wife, bursting
into tears.
"And so do l." added the now incen.
sed husband, as he arose and walked
out of the room.
This domestic quarrel was followed
by others equally trifl,ng in their origin
and disgraceful in their character, until
the silly couple made themselves so dis.
agreeable to each other that their home
became uncomfortable, and they scpara.
ted.
Now, doubt not, the reader is ready
to pronounce this quarrel foolish affair
1t was SO; and yet seriously question
if the first quarrel between a newly
married pair ever has much more ele.
waited beginning. Little things do grea
mischief, and are to be watched with sus
picious care. r.g