The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-03-05

name was, nevertheless, very dear to him.
Why that all women are artful as Eve, and
that your wlfes silence means just as much as
the loquacity of others over what the eAacting
sex call the delinquencies. of their husbands. |
which delinquencies are, in fact on, harmless,
pleas mt desire for enioynents, such as the hun,
drum sameness OF home does not afford. | /
advise every man to be what long ago declared
myself, master of his own household Females
are keen enough, and when they find an availa-
BILE nook in a mans heart they are sure to creep
in if they cam know EN- all, for I've wirtered
and summeted one good many years
MY wife is not artful or complaining she is |
everything she seems to be-" replied. Thorne
doggedlya while look of irresoutiot crossed
his face plainly dscernable TO Phippen BY the
light OF the street lamp which they were ap-
prochmg; while they had been talking, Phippen
was drawing his comrade in the direction of the
PhGnix. Thorne hesitated, and finally halted
but, wanting courage. and perhaps inclination,
to throw off the coil that Phippen was winding
around him, he suffered himself to be led for
ward again, and at more rapid pace than be-
fote, resolving in his weak mind to stay at home
tomorrow evening at any rate.
Thorne, what in the duce has kept you SO
late :" we have been waiting more than an hour
for you
We couldn't pluck up spirits till you made
your appearance .- ....t
"Dull as death here all the evening"
These and similar remarks greeted the two
men as they entered the clubroom.
Phippen winked at the assembled group to
question no more, while he filled glass and
passed it to the weak man, who, though glad to
be there, was yet somewhat sorry that he had
been persuaded to come.
II was lste hour before Thone reached his
home that night; his poor wife had watch
with fearful eyes the moving of the minute hand
until thad counted the laying hours. The moan
ing of her eldest child called her to its bedside.
: She laid down and clasped the sufferer to her
E bosom. The inebriate stumbled into his cham
ber knowing not, and caring less where his
e wife might be. He had never been so much IN
toxicated as now. Laura stole TO his couch,
n folded the counterpane over him, and kneeling
t besought the tender care of Him who sleepeth
never, for her erring husband. "Oh God" she
cried, safe him from the suares of the tempter !;
a sss him, lest he be utterly cast down where
cannot follow him"
IS She arose, and wiping her eyes, returned to
t, watch over and soothe her suffering child
= Only three years had flown, since Laura Leigh
ton left the pleasant home Of her Childhood and
II youth, to dwell, long as life remained, with
E, him. whom her young heart had chosen to love
ID above all other:earthly objects. The two first
1t years were very happy ones, but dark, weari-
fe some shadow had fallen over the last, that no
d, effort which she had yet made could raise.
e. She had spoken of her troubles to no one, not
~ even her mother, in whose affection she could
have placed all confidence. But her beautiful
w. wIFELY love, could bear that other eyes thar
OF hers, should see the blot gather and widen or
it its object. All, no true love is always shrink
at ing, and chafy of its IDOLS defects.
" This nights nebration was not his last
Another, and another came in quick succession
SIS, until Thorne was declared confirmed DRINK
ry ard Bon vIvANTs, who once coured an
Iys BEsiEGED him with attentions, now Stunned hin
nd with expressions of intense disgust
nd "What miserable nuisance Thorne is," say
"" one.
Poor fellow !" said another
alf "He had the impudence to come into my stol
or tie other day and beg drink. Fordhan
Its, Winkley, and Jewell were there at the time an
,ar, | was provoked enough to have him claim a
My qusintance with me before them," observe
ave Phippen disdanfully. His companions expires
ftef ed the surprise he anticipated for the insult
and "What did they say r asked two or three
we'd once.
no Nothing; but they went out almost INN
diately. Very aristocratic youths, you know
I've replied Phippen ,stroking his beard, thoughtful
the "Yes !" answered several, calculating the t
the tent of the 'aristocratic youths wealth, a
cuss hoping to meet them at the sub soon.
= "I want boy" said Phippen, do you knC
sped who can get right off"
Wont Thone let his come perhaps you c
, in induce him on the strength of your old in
Iher, macy some answered.
the al don't know his wife has grudge agai
me, and all of us, for leading her husba
said. away, as the silly thing calls it. But I'll
ards for the boy
And Phippen did try, against all the pers
horn sions and entreaties of Laura her miserable
0 SO, band undoubtedly hoping to gain fire. acces
ed to the Wholesale liquor store by the movemt
man permitted his beautiful, promising son to er
that worse than death-place. Then the he
il to broken mother almost gave up to despair
illu- groaned as her vivid over-wrought imaginai
f the depicted the danger of her son, around wi
n the unconscious head her prayers nightly hoveret
back One day she noticed flush on the ro
I you cheek, and sparkle in the eye of her boy.
she knew were not of health-she feared of
cour- citement. She asked him if he felt i'll
mans troubled he replied in the negative to
question: and soon after left her for for the 81
never He had scarcely entered it when Phippen