The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-02-18

nv wife. and / viii not allow it. Nov think Q
il: think of your wife-with . delicate Frame;
more sensitive organisation than yours-comin,
into her kitchen and finding four great, dirt;
men putting out clouds of nasty, filthy smoke
each Whit of which is enough to sicken her an
make her head ache. And more, too: Sh
knows that you are aware of her wishes, for sh'
has told them TO You a hundred times. WheI
you are gone she sees the pipes laying upon he
shelf. With an aching head and sickening sou
she looks at them, and knows that she must pas
through the ordeal again and again. She rs no
herself-she is but q passion and disgust wrought
up by tobacco smoke-and she takes the flthy
abomination and breaks it at once. Now, tel
me truly, Ned isn't all this the result of your
piper"
He looked Town upon the barn floor, but made
no answer.
81 know it is" I resumed, ssandI Know thatii
you would drop that, you would restore peace
"Stop, STOP" he cried. 81 can't give up my
pipe just to suit a woman's within. / wont be
tied down in that way"
ssThen why not smoke out of doorsr"
"Suppose it rains? And then what shall l do
in win er?'
"Why, if you must smoke in winter, let your
tobacco smoke go where you make all your other
smoke go. Stick your head into the fireplace
and smoke up chimney"
Ned fairly smiled.
"I'm in earnest I added. "for I can assure
you your pipe smoke is as offensive to your wife.
as the smoke of burning wood is to you. But /
ask you candidly-how can you expect Abby to
be happy when she is continually annoyed by a
nuisance which is absolutely sickening to her,
and that, too, when it could be all remedied sim
ply by your taking your pipe out of doors, or in
to the wood-house? And certainly you cannot
expect a person to be pleasant when they are
continually unhappy. Now mark me, Ned, |
don't mean to say that you are alone in the
wrong but 1 ask you Do you love Abby well
enough to forego a little comfort of evil habit for
her real good? ?"
Ned hesitated. He twice made up his mouth
to speak before he made out.
"Is a pipe offensive to your wife? ?" he asked.
"Not only offensive, hut it is absolutely inju-
rious. She cannot be in a room where an old
pipe is being smoked FIVE minutes without a
/ used to smoke. but l at length be-
came so disguised with the stencil which pervaded
my house, and moreover. l found that my wife
was so opposed to it., that I gave it up. Her
mere fussing about the smoke would never have
moved me, had I not been assured that she was
really annoyed by it. And surely, I thought, if
wife must stay in the house nearly all the
and if her place of duty must be there con-
fined, | will not, TO crafty a mere whim, make
her suffer. I used after that, to smoke out of
doors, but it was not always convenient, and /
gradually gave it up"
Just at this moment one of the neighbors came
in, and our conversation stopped.
remained to dinner, and promised to call on
again before / left town.
l did SO at the expiration of a week. l then
out to Ned's place. and got there Just
after dinner, and I found him out on the chop
ping-block smoking.
GHa, Ned,' uttered, g have you moved your
"Don't say a word, - he replied, while a dewy
gathered in his eyes. 81 hayn't
in the house since"
And Abby? =" l said.
81 told her that very night that if she'd never
peak a cross word to me again. l would never
lllow another pipe to be smoked in our house."
sand what did she say"
'sShe looked me in the face a moment-I
then she burst out n crying. She
lung around nv neck-told me she'd done wrong
me to forgive her~-and-and-we had
regular scene. By the powers, she's improved
llready."
81 should think she improved at once,' - said I.
so, 1 mean in health and looks. She hasn't
,ad a headache since"
When went in I found Abby singing as mer-
lily as a lark. When she saw me she dropped
Ter towel and started towards me. She did not
peak one word touching the joyful turn affairs
lad taken beneath her roof. But I knew what
hat quick, warm grasp meant, and l could read
he language of that glistening tear.
I went away shortly after that, and in three
ears from that time 1 visited L--again.
ly first call this time was upon Ned Cruden.
nd again l found him in his barn. Never
moved a friend to greet me more quickly.
"Ah,'' I said, as I took his hand, then
ou've given up the pipe altogether"
.sWho told you?" he asked.
"You did" replied.
"Me?-l told you?"
eyes, with your breath. 1t doesn't smell as it
id before"
.sWhat?-and was it so bad ?" Ned asked.
$40 tell you the truth, Ned. it was; for if
here is anything that can make a repulsive
.outh, it is an old, black tobacco pipe"
"Then Abby told the truth. But I've done
18th it now. Haven't touched a pipe for two
"And DOM you feel better
DON'T? I'd like to see the man that could
ire me to go at it again"
We went up to the house, and the first look
I'D the story. The room was clean and sweet,
he walls white, and the hearth was free from the
It'll of tobacco spit. And Abby-ah, she was
.bby once more-Abby of old-happy and joy
as, and true as steel.
And as | sat and gazed upon the happy couple
pondered upon that strange element in human
ature which will make misery and discord more
nd more, rather than bow one degree to simple
,ason. But the good DANES merry voice soon
spelled my deep thought, and was content to
now that in that home, at least, the demon of
scord had been exercised by a very little spirit
reasen.-FTag of the Union.