Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-19
THE NEWSPAPER:
Or, The wife's Good sense.
SKETCH TO BE READ BY THE MAN WHO RE-
TRENCHES BY DIscONTINUINe HIS PAPER-
TCoacluded.1

LConcEuded.l
About week after this, as Mr.. Heath was
moving one morning, he was surprised to see
his wife coming out, dressed as II tor NislV'
~ am going" said she, ''to spend the DAY
with Mrs Brown, l leave plenty foryou to eat;'
aud so saving, she walked rapidly on.
Mr. Heath thought about it just long enough |
to saw to himself, ''she don't 90 visiting 70 stay
all day once year hardly, and it's strange she
saOuld go in hay time"
Very long the day seemed to him; 10 60 in
for luncheon, dinner and supper, and to have
nobody 10 speak to; to find every thing so still.
The Old clock ticked stiler than usual he
thought, the brood fpretty white chickens that
were almost always-peePing around the door,
had wandered off somewhere, and LETT 1t stlller
vet; he evea missed the busy click of the knit
ting needles that was apt 10 put him out SO,
when be was doing any figuring.
~ am glad" he said to himself, as he began
70 look down the road at sunset, ''that Millicent
don't 90 q visiting all the time as some women
do-there she is just coming
How tired you look" said ne, as she came
up; 'why didn't you speak about it and I'd have
harnessed up and come after you y
81 am not very tired" she answered; but her
looks belied her; indeed, her husband declared
she look tired for day or two after.
What was his amaZement to see her 60 away
the next Tuesday in the same manner as before.
To his great dissatisfaction everything seemed
thai day to partake OF his wifes propensity Tor
Going from home. "a man don't want cold
food in haytime," said he, as he sat downto din
ner. In the same grumbling mood, he recount
ed the mishaps of the morning, which seemed
to have been much after the manner set forth
in certain legend of olden time; for he embel-
lished his recital by allusion TO
| ''The Sleeps in the meadow,
The cows in the corn,'
adding that they wouldn't have been there if
Mrs. II had been at home, because she'd seen
them before they got in, and hallooed. She
vould have seen the oxen before they got across
the river, and saved him the trouble of getting
them back. But after tracing all the uutoward
events to her absence, he said to himself consol-
liugly, " guess she won't 90 any more, she al
ways was home body"
Mrs. Heath did go again though, and again,
and the day she went for the fourth time, her
. husband took counsel with himself as to what
he should do to stop her gadding." Seated on
the door step, in the shade of the old trees, he
J spent an hour or two in devising ways and
, measures, talking aloud all the time, and hay-
ing the satisfaction of hearing nobody dispute
him.
at is hard TO think of her getting to be 8
visitin' woman" said he, "and It's clear it AIM
] right-Keep her at home, I've read IN the Bl-
bic, (old Richard Bible knowledge was some
what confused, quotation varied slightly from
c the seriptural phrase 'keepers at honey but
5 ii saws too" he added, with the true, sincere
! man, that husbands must set great store by
. their wives and treat them well. won't scolc
MiIicent, I'll harness up and go for her to
night and coming home, II talk 1t all over witt
n her, and tell her how bad it makes me feel, anc
X if that won't do, Ill something else"
d In accordance with his praise worthy resolu
ton, he might have been seer about sunset
p bitcbinC his horse at MIR. Browns door; fU
a STRANGELY enough, Mrs. Heath's visits had al
l. been made at the same place. Going up to thu
Il door, he stopped in amazement at seeing hi
e wife in the kitchen, just taking on a grea
" woollen wash apron, and putting down he
y sleeves which hal been rolled up for washing
,e He listened and heard her say as she tool
"a some money from Mrs. Brown. alt won't be s.
y that ! can do your washing again.
D. "It has been great favor to have you do
or while have been poorly" said Mrs Brown
N ''and I'm glad to pay you for 1t. Tins make
&c four times, and here's two dollars. It's JUS
IN as well that you can't come again, for think
IN shall be well enough to DO it myself.
TO 1.-Two dollars, Just the price of the newspa
per." exclaimed Mr. Heath, as the truth flash
Is ed across him. Rather silent ride they ha
a home, till at last he said
eInever was so ashamed in my life J"
VI "Of what 7" asked his wife.
er "Why, to have you go out Washing am
a. so poor as that comes to-"
sWell. don't know, replied the wife, 'whe
man is too poor to take a newspaper, n
X ing"
- time, though some i'll feelings fingered in th
hearts of each The making up was no mawb
OF ish scene of kissing, embracing and crying, sue
K as romance writers build their useless fabric
re with; but as Mrs. Heath was finishing he
of household duties for the night, she said quietly
in 81 don't think did quite right, Richard"
d. 81 don't think did either" responded th
al husband; and so the spark was quenched whic
St might hive become scathing flame, blighun
IF all the domestic peace under their humble rool
to The sequel shows that Millicent paid her tw
in dollars and continued to take the paper, and b
+ it heard of the return Of the ship her son sale
te on. She Immediately proceeded to the city a
he which it had arrived, and there after diigen
search, found her sen Alfred, PROSTATE upon
y beG Of sickness among strangers, APPARENT.
no neglected, and near unto deaths door. BY tn
an kind attentions aud untiring watchfulness OF
a fond mother he was restored to health and t
1t his beloved home.
it From that time forward the farmer apprecia
ly ted the value of, and always took the newspa
g, per, aud paid for it, and considered the tw
n, dollars which he thus paid yearly, the most ga
n. ua6le investment he made of his money.
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