The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-01-09

Of Job-never can fud anything when
want Il"
''You should put Il in lie place then
yourself when you use IT,"
81 did. left Il at the wood pile"
"No, you did not. You left Il down
BY the barn, whore you was mending the
bars" I' E.f.ID |f .....
"Humphl So I did"
"And of joe would 90 after the axo,
End the pigs in the corn for want Of care
in the fences, put of after the pigs full
run, drive them out half mile from the
house, met neighboT, got upon the
fence aud talk an hour. forgetting all
about the wood. In the mean time Lydia
would run for the axe, chop her own
wood, aRd manage somehow to have the
bread all right, for nothing is ever wrong
in her department aud Joe would not see
nor know that be had not in the slightest
transgressed. The house leaked down
rain upon her head for Eve years, and she
could not induce him TO mend the roof.
The crops were never planted, nor never
gathered in season. The fences were left
till half he did raise was destroyed by
unruly cattle. The cistern would leak
by the year together. mans labor a
half day would repair Il. But he would
90 TO town and stay three days IN
week, aud not get back ill midnight -
If she made little garden, the gates
we're left OF the hinges aud il was destroy
ed. He often laid abed ia the morning
till called the third or fourth time TO
breakfast, while she milked the COW with
babe in her arms, carried in wood and
run TO the garden for what was needed. .
He always kept great family and little
help. was but child then. He never
put anything in place, left everything
where lie used it, never cleaned his feet,
or took the least pains to save her labor
aud instead Of helping her govern the
boys as they grew up, by his own eare-
less habits, his waiting, putting OF, and
want Of energy, he taught them TO follow
in his ways. .i#r
Little BY little Lydia learned 10 soold.
Every day for the year she would have to
remind him, that the bucket was down
in the well, or the cistern pump needed
mending. All these things she would
have rightsd herself, but she never had
money, for Joe's carelessness left him
always in debt, and these debts were an
excuse for everything. He was mean in
all little things. He would let ten dollars
go to waste out side for the want of an
hours care, yet soold her or the children
for wasting a goose quill or l1cifer match.
Easy and good natured for the most part,
vet turbulent aud abusive, when things
went wrong for him, as they usually did.
Lydia's good humored, joyous disposi-
tioR and gentleness Of spirit gradually
wore ont to him, though she was pleas
ant, as he used TO say, to every one else
Now, 10 worry is grown a habit, and as
he takes il easy. never trying 10 please
her in any one thing.
at 10 no use" he says, "to try to
please her. She will fret. If he mends
the eisteru she would find fault about the
roof, and if he stopped the leak she
would want the spout put up, End If thGt
was done, she'd remember that the gard
en- was behind time, aud when that was
brought up the door yard would need
moving or manuring, or the trees prun-
ing, and 90 it's no use" aI
Poor wretched man. He never tried
putting all to rights at once, 10 see its
effect. So for twenty-five years poor
Mrs. Jenkins has toiled almost day and
night to keep along, and by dint of fret
ting. cofxing and toiling has raised a
pretty respectable family. But they all
think "mother scolds," and her reason for
all this quadrupled labor, is worn out
nervous system, face wrinkled and old,
spirit broken, and the name Of Fretful
Housewife. Who is to blame ask
you candidly and seriously, gentlemen,
IL you could either Of you be patient and
forbearing at all times. iyou had to live
with such a man as Joe jenkins? He is
lazy, dogmatical, slovenly, and cold
hearted. Lydia is exactly the reverse
There, there she Is now driving the cows
out of the cabbage, and there he is. as
usual, down By the grocery, smoking bis
pipe and talking to old Phelps. He's half
drunk. suppose somebody will say his
Wits scolded him into IL.
Hang his lazy picture" said the
frst speaker, al believe all he does is to
talk; he's good at that"
The other got up and walked away
signing:
Lydia ain'L all 70 blame"
He was thinking, no doubt, OF "what
might have been"
There are a great many Lydia jenkins
in this world-fretful women. who get a
hard name simply because somebody else
never lives up TO duty--good house-keep,,
ers, good wives, good mothers, good
neiQhbors - no fault 70 be found with
them, but that ''they scold."
Look At the other side Of the picture.
Husbands. that are men perhaps Of mind
and character, and even wealth, yet SO
careless and neglected. Of little things SO
thoughtiess Ola Wife's cOmfOrt and hap
piness, and Sc fearful Of her acting her
self, as 10 restrict her to just what they
think necessary; and would be offended,
aud feel their dignity infringed upon
were she TO take the responsibility oil mr.
ing q man to chop her wood, OF space
her Qarden-thus curbing and irettng
minds as earnest and independent as their
own, aud filing their paths with little
annoyanoes, that make the whole NE =