The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-02
Number 33.
Mr. Smith Lounges ON the Sofa.

AND MRS SMITH LECTURES HIM FOR
Il declare. Mr. Smith! this is too bad
Here you are stretched out on the sofa. mus
sing it up. and my nice carpet is all spoiled
by the tramp of your coarse boots. l shall
be ashamed to bring any one fnto the parlor
again-and ! have taken SO much pains to
keep everyt thing NICE do think Mr. Smith.
You are the most thoughtless. careless man
ever did see-you don't appear to care how
much trouble YOU give me. Ii had no more
care than YOU have would soon have
nice looking house-it would not be long till
our new house and furniture would be Just as
bad as the DID, said John Smiths wife to
him, as she saw him in the parlor taking a
nap on the sofa
. Il was tired and sleepy, Mary. and the wealth
er SO hot, and this room so quiet and COOL and
the sofa looked inviting. that l could not
resist the temptation TO snooze a little. l
thought when we were building new house,
and furnishing IL thus that We were doing it
because the old house and furniture were not
SO comfortable as desirable. and that and my
own dear Mary. would indulge ourselves in a
little quiet leisure in these nice rooms. and if
we choose, in lounging the sofas and rock
ing in these cushioned arm chairs. away from
the noise of the family, and the smell of the
cooking stove.
Y,
and thought it would give you pleasure to
see me enjoying a nap the sofa. this warm
afternoon | notice when Merchant Swell,
or Col. Bigman. and their families arc here,
YOU appear delighted to have sofas and cush-
ioned arm chairs for them to sit in or lounge
upon. l though ht the house and the sofas were
TO use-that We were seeking our own pleasure
when we paid large sum ofmoney for them;
but | suppose l was mistaken. and that the
house and furniture for strangers, and that
we are 10 sit in the old kitchen, and il l want
to take nap, or rest little when fatigued,
am to lie down on a slab in the wood house;
and if you want to rest, can go to the chill
dren's trundle bed, in the little close bed room
where the flies can have a chance at you"
The irony Of Mr. Smiths reply only pro
voked his wife, and seeing himself threatened
with repetition of Mrs. Smiths speech, with
unpleasant additions and variations, and know
ing that he would get tired of gaining victo
ries over her in argument, before she would
, think of getting tired of defeat. he took him
self out, and left Mrs. Smith to fix up and
dust out, and lock him out of his own house,
and took seat on an old chair in the kitchen.
Which Mrs. Smith said was good enough to
use every day--in the kitchen where no one
sees it.
Poor mistaken Mrs. Smith. thought l.
And vet most women are like her. They
want fine house. and when they get it they
want an out house built to live in, and they con-
fine their families to few small rooms, poor
" furnished, while the main rooms. waR fur
nished. is never seen by the family only when
visitors come! Both house and furniture are too
grand for use. The carpet is too fine for their
husbands to walk on-the mirrors are too fine
for him to look into--the furniture is all too
fine for him to use. Just SO it goes
we dress, we women. l mean, and / am sorry
that many men as foolish as we are, TO
please others, or rather to excite their remarks
we build houses. and furnish them for those
outside Of the family. and live as poorly when
we are rich as we did when we were poor; as
poorly in the new house in the old
1t is fatal day TO enjoyment when tami-
ly gets house and furniture too fue for use;
and vet most women have ambition to
have it So Better would it be if they were
contented with such house and such furni-
ture as is suited to every day use--the house
large enough to accommodate ones friends.
and the furniture such as all use when at
home. Rose RANDOM.
'-lKarysviHe Tribune.