The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-10-14


:" No, by Jover' exclaimed Harry
Vane, as he threw himself back in his
easy chair and gracefully removed a
fragrant Havana from his lips for the
purpose of exhaling cloud of the per-
fumed smoke. "No, by Jove!' he re-
'peated; " wouldn't marry a jealous
woman if she was the richest heiress
in the world. tell you, Walter, it
wouldn't do for my wife to be jealous.
This being generally constant to any
one little bundle of lace and dimity, is
an utter impossibility to a man of my
constitution. / have natural taste
for variety, you see, and the most
want a wife for, is to keep house for
me, and take care of things, and give
me little leisure t. make myself
agreeable to womankind in general.
When nothing more agreeable turns
up, why of course then she can have
the privilege of entertaining me, which,
with consolation of knowing that her
husband is the most accomplished lady
killer in town, will, / take it, be ample
compensation for all her service in my
behalf But you see if she were in anv
way jealous, she might not think so"
1T would be possible, l should think, !"
said Walter Everett, " that she might
be inclined to disagree with you. 1
should think that any woman who
loved you would naturally object to
such an arrangement.
ooh, pshaw, Everett!" exclaimed
Harry; that proves you to be no.
vice. Don't you know that love in a
female heart is made up of just two
elements = vanity and self sacrifice.
just give a woman husband she is
proud of, and you-or, that is, you
might be able to-but a man of NV
accomplishments can coax her into
anything under the sun. Wait till
marry!-Ill show you how to manage
wife. I'll show you how to unite all
the freedom of bachelor with the
privileges of Benedict"
Walter smiled, and pufed away at
his cigar in silence.
The two young men were clerks in
a large mercantile establishment in the
city. They occupied apartments in
the same house, and were generally on
very close and intimate terms. Per-
haps it may not be necessary to inform
the reader that Harry was something
of coxcomb, though he was bv no
means as immoral - might be inferred
from his own account of himself. This
Walter knew, and he could therefore
listen to his occasional strains of gas
conade with the utmost serenity, even
though perfectly aware at the time that
the speaker entertained serious ideas
OF finally bestowing the ineffable honor
OF his name and protection upon a GER
tain little cousin of his own, Miss Susie
Stantcn. That his confidence went so
far as to lead him to conceal from the
sad young lady the sentiments so fire.
quently expressed, we cannot vouch.
Indeed, the writer rather has the idea
that the two frequently talked over in
this unfortunate falling Of their
mutual friend, and studied frequently
to devise some method of reducing the
proportions of Harry's organ of variety.
Nothing, however, very effectual was
accomplished during the courtship:
and in process of time Dir. Harry Vane
entered the state of matrimony under
he full conviction that his loving Susie
possessed not spark of jealousy, and
hat her overweening affection for him
would lead her to accept with unfeigned
gratitude and joy whatever attention
t might please him to bestowupon her,
md TO preserve a discreet silence in |
egard to whatever she might see in
lis outgoings and incomings that was
peculiar or mysterious.
To do Susie justice, she was not ma
urally OF jealous disposition, but be-
ides her innate amiability in that re-
pect, she had little bit of that sby
vomanly pride which made her resolve
bat she wouldn't be jealous. No, in
eed, she would never be pointed at
8 jealous wife, neither should Mr.
larry Vane have the pleasure of insin-
ating that he managed his wife, that
he was duly instructed and trained of
ome to look conveniently in the other
lrection, whenever he opened the in. i