Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-11-20

1t has been wet soshy day. and you are glad to get
home at night and pull off your boots and put on your
slippers You do soand you feel better, and you pun
your armchair up before the blazing anthracite and lo
back in your easy charand look in the fire. VI course
YOU have your cgar-and you light it, prepared for
comfortable smoke To be sure, there is an oddity,
uueerness about the that skes you at first as pc
culiar Of course the reason is Obviousyou guess 1t
in minute-your wife is away.
To be sure she is. How else would you dare to smoke
in the sttngroom where she has as often forbidden 1t
The basement you know, she has often told you, was a
propriated to the cigar, and that room alone.
But she is gone-and accordingly you assert the pre-
roeatye of your SEX and smoke where you like. And
YOU feel sort of manly independence-of bachelor free
don-as YOU put your legs in dangerous proximity to
the china ornaments the mantepecc. And for a
while you actually enjoy your solcltude
But the fire gets low. You poke it and you put the
Goals on But you never could poke tire like Sue
and YOU never could make it burn half as brightly You
don't like to acknowledge it, but you know in your heart
of hearts that it's the truth of the matter.
And that shirt button? Was there anything 50
provoking of course. You know it-you were well
aware that Sue would be sure to go away just when
YOUR linen out Of repair
| That cook too. A good woman enough you are viii
ling to allow for pies and cakes. and roasting beef but
tie warming cup of coffee, the tempting cup O-shC
can't make them, you persist and what is more, she
never could And your wife did certainly please yo'V
YES she could make excellent cup of tea coffee you
are willing to confess that. You willing to give
| Sue little credit in that respect
The fire is getting lower and lower and you are fast
getting chilly. And what is that peculiar feeling that
steals upon you :!
You don't like to confess it. but cOme-Out with it.
man? confess that-you miss your wife.
| Now don't attempt to deny it-dOn't say pshaw
don't curl your lip and don't say that you think you'd
have been just as happy single
| You know you wouldn't.
| You do-you do miss your wife. You can't tell why
| miss hQrh Int 10 muSt no he
speakabe spell of her presence the charm of her purity
the quiet gentle that charmed you the golden
days when you went counting.
All, those days. you murmur- and your mind revertS
to that little village where you WOed and won your bride
And why do you sigh? You are happier now,--yOu
know you are,for Sue though dear sweetheart, is
dearer wife You only saw her few hours a day then
and now you see her the whole twenty-fOur. And you
are happy in every respect-and, if you haven't any
children yet, why, alive trust to the future
All the fire has gone OUTPUT you don't want tC
go to bed yet. And why? Because you don't want
to go to bed alonethats the honest truth of it, You
do miss your wfe-wl you own it?
That's right you've owned up like man. You
acknowledge that you do miss her
And why do you let her 90 away? She wanted t.
visit her relations! Of course she did And VIII,
didn't you 60 with her? You had business? Bah!
Could you not have postponed your business =? No
conveniently? Nonsense--you know you could. Yo1
would have lost couple of hundred dollars you say
|
have had with her been worth couple of hundred dol
ars-aye-twice couple Of hundred dollars?
Would you not have felt satisactOn-a content
ment-you do not now enjoy? Would you have misses
the loss of that couple of hundred dollars? Would yo
not have had its full valueaye, and with compound in
terest tin the society of your wife?
What il it you say, man? Were you heard rightly
Say it once more! Now-say it like good fellow
You won't let her go again!
Bravo! That's manly--thats noble Do you meal
lit? No need ask that. You show it in your eye
your word is pledged to yourselfsee that you keep
sacred, and that you won't let her go away again.
And you think of the many harsh words and petts
looks that you have given her, and-nay, man, neve
dash that tear away Let it fall; it will do you gooC
on didn't know how much, at the time, your darling
bore from you-but you feel it. and your conscenc
reproaches you. So it should You mentally resov
you won't do it again There's another promise. Sc
that you keep it.
And her little whims her little peculiarities hoy
have you INDUCED them? Not mucl-and you know
it. You should bear with her, and you know it. an
you make still third promise to yourself that in futu
you will do it.
The fire is out. You go to bed--to dream of you
wie-and ere you sleep-you bless her.
, And as you do sO,-Heaven blesses YOU