The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-03-15

waste more than ntty GEMS week.
swell, that is twenty six dollars year"
"But | can afford to lose that, rather
than that you should make slave of your.
self.''
81 don't want girl; it would be more
work to look after her than it would be to
do the work myself"
GAS you please, my dear"
81 don't want your friends to think you
have got an extravagant wife"
Fudge, Ion my friends!"
"Yes, it is easy enough for you to say
so."
"And for you. too. if you choose"
81 don't want 10 spend all we get.''
"Nor |, my dear; but, to be very plain
with you, | had much rather do it than
hear you everlastingly complain of how
hard you have to work"
Don't work hardl''
81 don't know but you do"
"Just think wha, have to do"
| swell, have to work hard, too; but !
am sure it does not make one feel any
better to be continually grumbling about
Iit." -.
"Who's grumbling? can't body speak
without being accused OF grumblng!" said
Mrs. Butler, rather pettlshly. ,se. ~
81 only mean TO say, that you work
twice as hard with your imagination as
you do with your hands; your thoughts
make the work hard" ~ I;
Eyes, 1T is easy for you TO say so.' ''said
the wife,, wiping away the tears from her
wan cheek.
/ "When5 have come into the house,
Mary, for the last six months, and you
have not told me heap of troubles as big
as mountain! can't stand it!'' -
81 never thought you could be SO harsh
to me. You did not use TO speak to me
in that way" sobbed Mary. feeling tina
she was the most cruelty y-used wife in the
world.
"You irritate me with your troubles"
81 can't help my troubles; | do the bes
!. can to keep your house in order. ant
take good care Of the baby
81 never found any fault with your man
agemcnt. am abundantly pleased witt
all you do, save and except your chroak
: ing and grumbling.'
i "What can | dog e.... s
d "Go about your work cheerfully. an
e with disposition to make the best Of ev
erything., By a cheerful and contente
l. disposition, you will make even the hard
is est'day oftoil day of satisfaction. 70
ii look darkly upon your lot, and that make
g il black y r.ssss-ss..-ssss,ss ,-sssrsssy zF-
II cant help my feelings" gss
g s.Yes, you can. Mary AT any rats
/ you ought not TO embitter my existenc
. with your incessant cnmplainings."
at SAL have tried 10 make. You happy .,s.ss.
,r "If you have, you have signally tailet
for it has come to that, | almost hate
lie come into the house, so much do drea
IS to hear your tale Of Woe"
/ III will try to do BETTER S.
rk "Do. Mary; home will become ours
,e to me, instead Of the brightest spot upo
ID earth. as It ought to be. if you do not"
so The baby cried at this point Of the col
ID versation, and Mrs. Butler wiped ava
) her tears, and took the little cherub fro
w the cradle where he had been sleepin
We all unconscious Of the matrimoni al squs
n. which had been blowing around him.
CHAPTER II.
We When Mrs. Butler mas married. 81
x. was bright, cheerful and happy Made
nd For more than year she and her devot
Id husband had not known the meaning
matrimonial strife. 1t was new state
Of existence to her. and while the novelty
the thing lasted, she was as happy as I
Ia day was long. :.
But in the course Of events, she was d
y prived Of the pleasure of going ahro
he much, and, the pretty home in which $
had spent year Of joy, began TO rust
her Imagination, Not that her husbal
l." was less devoted. though he might r
ito have been quite so dreamy and sentime
tai as he was in the days of their courtsh
Ter vet he was all that reasonable W
1. could expect, He was, indulgent, XII
,g- and sympathized deeply with her. in
those matters wherein a young wife nee
=" tenderness and care.
Little Bobby was born; but the lii
.! stranger made such heap of work for
but fond mother, that she declared she wo'
l." die under the inhiction. She would
BILE listen 10 her husband s suggestion to Ike
a girl. She had kind of vanity in
composition which led her to endure ra
81 err than subject her husbands purse
lch such an expenditure. She feared 70
+ would say she was not as .'smart' as {
md wished to be considered, or that Thom
ere relations would deem her extravagant a
lazy. . .ea5f
She continued to do her work, tho,
each day was day Of misery. Bef
1t a she got breakfast. dinner, or tea, she
fig. and moped over it. thinking what te
BILE hard job it was for her to perfo
tbs. She dreaded washing day from about
itch day morning; and over the wash tub
,ty- was as miserable as soap-suds and q r
snts bing board could possibly make her.
The reader may Imagine she was ls
ler, but do not think SO. She lived il
un- "world Of trouble;" she looked upon
le dark side Of everything. Of course u
half we're many hardships she was called
les, on to endure-as who is not? She
lou. obliged to keep occupied most Of the i
lars in. the duties Of the household, and the
$ Of the baby. Her position was undo
Thy. edly one Of trial and vexation, as II
e to who are experienced in these matters
with readily understand. .s.f
ould But the principal difficulty was to
Ha found in Mrs. Butler unhappy disposii