The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-07-03

She never comes 10 breakfast in curI.pa.

She never comes to breakfast . in curI.pa-
pers. She does not grumb.e If her husband
brings friend to dinner, even il athere is
nothing in the house." She does not re-
monstrate if her husband puts his feet on the
steel fender, or cry If he does no, wipe his
feet on the door mat. She subscribes 10 no
circulating library and if she reads novel
she falls asleep over it. She is proficient in
pies, and has deep knowledge of puddings
She never talks politics; or "wish that she
was Dead" or ga man J" or slam the doors,
or shut herself up in her bedroom on the
plea of "nervous headache" She is very
slow in tears, and stout hereto as 10 hyster-
ics She allows dog to be kept in the
house. She goes 10 church, but not TO criti-
else the bonnets. She is not above descend
ing into the kitchen TO get Something
warm" for supper. She allows fire in the
bedroom on wintry night. She has a
quick eye for dust, but does not martyr her
husband with continual complaint about
The servants, nor worry herself TO death for a
man in livery or page in buttons. She can
walk, and without thin shoes, or Jeames
to follow her. She prefers table beer to
wine, and does not faint at the idea of grog,
in fact, faint at all. She never sees that it is
necessary 10 go out of town "for the dear
children's health" II is true she follows
the fashions but then at several years. dis
lance. She has the smallest possible affec-
ton for jewellry, and makes the sweet chill
drens' frocks out of her old dresses. She is
never "delicate." and would scorn to send
for the doctor because she is ga little low"
She never tells her husband when any of
her friends have got new bonnet, or ex-
claims with enthusiasm that she ''saw such
lovely cashmere in the city yesterd ay,"
and then rhapsodise on the smallness Of the
price. She never opens her husbands let
ters, AMI preserves her wedding gown with
Cirlish reverence. She is not miserable il
she stays in town on the Ascot Day, nor do
penance in the back parlor if she does not
go out of town when the season is over. She
mends stockings and makes unexcep,iona-
BILE preserves and pickles. She does not re-
fuse TO 60 out with her husband because she
hasn't gown. She asks for money sparine-
ly, and would sooner "eat her head OFF,
than make anything out of the housekeep-
Ing. She always dresses for dinner She
never hides the la'ch-key. She rarely firts,
and it makes her too giddy to waltz, even
with an officer.
The Model Wife sits up with her husband
to the most unmatrimonial hours and still
she does not look black, or say "He's killing
her," though she should bring daylight in
with him, or even come home with the
''milk." She hangs over the little bit of fire,
watching the mantlepiecs clock, alarmed by
every sound, jumping at every cab, shiver-
ing and sleepy, her only companions during
the long night the mice in the cupboard, or
stray black beetle, and her only occupa-
ton the restless fear lest her husband should
not come home safe. She cries sometimes,
but never before him and above all-hear
it all ye Wives-she does rot Caudle Lee
ture him when she gets him inside the cur
tains and knows there is no escape for him