Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-09-25
s ELECT TALE.
Three Ways Of Managing a
m. Wife,
By MRS. S. T. MARTYR.


aude that false and contemplate kind of decision
which term obstinacg stubbornness of temper that
in the Of dead weight rather than strength
resembling less the reaction of powerful spring than the
gravation OF a big stone" FOSTERS ESSAYS.
Il have said, Mrs. Wilson, that it is my
will to have it so, and thought you knew me
well enough to know that nv will is unaltera-
BILE. Therefore, if you please, let me hear no
more about it,
But, my dear husband, the boy
But madam assure you that there is no
room for 5uts in the matter Am not master
of my own house, and fully capable of govern
ing it,'
Yes, certainly, my dear, only l happen to
know something about this school, which |
think would influence You in forming your
Judgment, if you would listen to me for mo-
ment.'
My Judgment is already formed, madam,
and it is not likely to be altered by anything a
woman can say. You may be good Judge of
the merits of pudding, or the size Of stock
ing, but this is matter in which l do not wish
for any advice
So Master James Wilson, little, delicate
backward boy of ten years, was sent TO large
public school, in which the amount of study
required was so much beyond his ability, and
the rules so severe, that the heavy penalties
daily incurred, seriously affected his health and
happiness. 1t was with an aching heart that
the fond mother saw him creeping slowly to
school in the morning, with pale and defect
ed countenance, and returning home, fatgued
in body, soured in spirit, and rapidly learning
to detest the very sight of his books, as the
instruments of his wretchedness. The severi-
ty of the husband and father had in this in
stance produced its usual unhappy effect, by
tempting Mrs. Wilson TO injudicious indulgence
of her son in private, and the perpetual oscil-
liations between the extremes of harshness and
fondness thus experienced, rendered the poor
boy weak and unprincipled character, anxious
only to escape the consequences of wrong
doing, without any regard to the motives of his
conduct.
Not many months after his entrance into the
public school, he was violently thrown to the
ground during recess, by an older boy, and his
limbs so much injured by the fall, that a long
and dangerous illness was the consequence
Mrs. Wilson was extremely desirous TO try the
effects of the cold-water treatment on the dis
eased limb, but her husband had adopted sys-
TEN of his own, composed of all the most OBJ
jectionable features Of other systems, and he
would not relinquish such an opportunity of
testing his skill as physician. The child was
accordingly steamed and blstered until the in
fammaiion became frightful, and then cupping,
leeching, &C., were resorted to, without any
other effect than greatly to reduce the strength
of the patient.
say, the poor child is getting worse every day,
and if he.lives through it, will, fear, lose his
limb-will you not try what DR.. S. can do with
the cold-water treatmentl
If could be astonished at any degree of
folly on the part of wuman,' was the reply,
should be surprised at such question.
am doing what l think best for the boy, and
you are well aware that my mind was long
since made up about the different systems of
medicine. Do confne yourself to nursing the
child, and leave his treatment TO me-
All, this domestic making up ones mind y
1t is process easily and often rapidly gone
through, but its consequences are sometimes
so far-reaching, and abiding, that we may well
tremble as we hear the words carelessly pro-
nounced.
After period of intense suffering, James
Wilson rose from his sick bed, but he had lost
and the use of the injured limb his mother
could not but feel that it was in consequence of
the ignorant and barbarous treatment he had
received. But remonstrance was vain-the
law of the Medes and Persans were not more
unalterabe than that which regulated the house.
hold of Mr.. Wilson, not only in matters of
consequence, but in the smallest details Of do
mestic economy.
A new cooking apparatus had long been
needed in the kitchen of Mr.. Wilson, and as
this was matter clearly within her province,
his wife hoped she might be able to procure a
range which had been declared indispensable by
her domestics. But in this she was doomed
to be disappointed
Her husband remembered the cooking-stove
which had been the admiration of his child
hood, and resolved, if change must be made
TO have one of that identical pattern in his own
house. t..
But your mothers stove, though good
one for those days. said Mrs. Wilson, was
one of the first invented. and destitute of mos,
of the conveniences which now accompany
them. 1t consumed, besides, almost double the
amount of fuel required by one of the modern
stoves
What an absurd idea! A stove is stove,
take it, and what was good enough for my
mother, is good enough for my wife. That
which answered all the purposes of cooking
in SO large family as my father had, might
suffice, should imagine, in our small one
At any rate, choose to get this pattern,
and therefore no more need be said on the sub
ject.'
1t was nothing to Mr.. Wilson, that the ex-
penditure of fuel, and time, and labor was SO
greatly increased by his arrangement-it was
nothing that his wife was constantly annoyed
,by complaints, threats, and changes in her