The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-05-12

SO hard to get along and Keep things nice,
you needn't make SO much work. Dear
me to have to live with such person ?
1t would have been better for us both if
we never had met
Hereupon the husband, William, de-
parted, leaving Jane to cry it out alone. !
She sobbed awhile quite heartily, and
made herself believe she was the most
unappreciated, unfortunate and miserable
of all beings then, like good housewife.
she began tothink. What good does all
this do? am making myself sick for
nothing-my eyes will feel SO badly that
l can't sew So she wisely rose and
bathed them, brushed up her carpet, and
sat down to her needlework. But she
was not in good mood, not repentant,
nor forgiving, nor cheerful, not even pa
cifc.
She was in little better feeling when
she met her husband at dinner, but was
quite in the humor to make demands, and
let her grievances be manifest, The car
wing was hardly over, when she began :;
William, did you see about having the
stove cleaned and lined this morning?
Bridget says she cannot cook with it any
longer as it is, and it makes her SO cross
that can hardly manage her.
No. hadn't time was the laconlc
answer.
Hadn't time guess youcould have
found time if you'd tried-1've no idea
you ever thought of it. If you cared
anything for other people, you'd think of
them and find time to see to things. You
find time for your own matters
You seem TO know so much, why do
YOU askme? Perhaps you'd better see to
your affairs Yourself
what hadn't l better do? | do al
most everything now, yet you never seem
satisfied. suppose l can go to the stove
store, since you don't seem able to 90
ANYTHING don't know but l shall have
to 20 to the tailor's yet, to order your
clothes for you. Well, want TO know
Iif YOU saw Walker about those drawers,
as l have so often asked you to? am
in such need of them, don't know what
to do. Everything is in confusion in the
closets
mo, didn't see Walker?' 2
well, when will you?'
i don't know
'Will you ever?'
THAI don't know, Anything fur
ther?
Yes. Didy get latch for Bird
gets door?'
mo-
Il asked you to be sure and remember
it when YOU went out from breakfast
That door is slam, slam the whole time
Inever saw anybody like you, l canno'
get anything done, and it's just SO al
ways
Mr.. Lovett ate away unmoved, and his
wife, not thinking of any other subject Of
complaint at that moment, finished hei
dinner in silence.
Just as Mr.. Lovett was leaving the
dining-room, she called out, William
Alboni sings tonight, can't you take me
to hear her 2
Il have an engagement this evening,
he answered, with his hand upon thu
door. =,
.It's the last night she sings, and
haven't heard her. said Jane.
: Il can't help it, said William
You don't try to help it. Mr.. Llntol
has taken his wife twice to hear her, ant
they're going again tonight. Mrs; Lin
tonthinks she sings as well asJenny Llna'
Il suppose she has right to her Opln
ion.'
well, why can't you take mc3' presis
ted Jane.
Taks you to aconcert. after all yOu'v
. said =
Anything for an excuse I! You know
{ I've said nothing but the truth, and yo'
u never take me anywhere, and never did
u mo, neverp said Lovett, in tone Q
Il irony, as he closed the door.
: Jane was not disappointed, for she ha
II II no expectation of going to the concer
u She only asked her husband to take hei
in order to try him, and to show hir
e what other husbands did, and what h
< didn't do. She had now so far relieve
'e herself that she was in mood for whole
, some thought and reflection; and she 500
~ BEGAN to have some misgivings as to tn
}; r;Gbt of the course she had been pursr
a. inc, and also as to its wisdom. Right an
wisdom are in fact the same thing
'S Jane Lovett was at heart a woman
GOOD motives and kind feelings, thougl
as we have seen, she had an irritable, III
= comfortable temper. Her temperance
~ was NERVOUS as that of too many womt
! in these days-our grandmothers wou
~ have called them cross, ugly, or mo
III likely. scolds and vixens; but in the llg
of our philanthropy, we know better
ne dear hearts they are nervous !
ho Jane Lovett was nervous-she had t.
w ,er much regard for trifes, too lively Pc
re os ception Of evils, and little facility in ada
Ter s ting herself to circumstances. She W
w. wv also affectionate and imaginative, and
~ ,nyt her girlhood had formed high ideal
~ her lover. Her opportunities OF acqual
ats tapce with her husband before Maria
v'o 'no were limited, and so she loved, and hope
ssv s.'. and trusted he was all she would des
~ ~ in a lifelong companion and lord
,rr 49, lord for she had an idea that she sho'
'sr 60 like to look up to somebody, lean W
lou him, reverence him, and all al that so sort
ri. G thing. How was she disappointed
What change few weeks OF MARI
our life does sometimes make in woma