Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-30
THE.SK PLEAS FOR A New Dress.

she manages she approaches with
Plea No. namely, tie Persua-
sive Ple0.-Oh, how hard he has to
fight! She tells him how she loves him
-smooths his hair, calls him king !;
asks if he has the heart to deny her.
If he says he has, she proceeds to-
Plea No. Cor, The Destitute
Plea.-She informs him Of the fact
that she has nothing to wear, and says
a man is brute who would not give
his wife something to wear. That she
is not fit to be seen. That people will
cry shame on him. In vain he says
that "beauty unadorned is adorned the
most" She asks if he can be so mean
as to refuse her. If he says ''yes," she
proceeds to ss El
Plea No. 3-or, The Pouting
Piea.-This consists more Of gesture
than of speech. She sits at the table
with her little nose turned up, and her
little eyes turned down. She eats lit
tie, (till he goes to business) sighs Of
ten, and walks about the house like a
bad-tempered ghost. She speaks only
to say "she knew it would be So" and
sit served her Just right Should he
dare say s'it did," she proceeds to
Plea No. 4-orthe Property Plea.
She politely asks for the little money
she had when she was married. Certain
ly she can do what she wishes with her
own. All her worldly goods consisted
Of few worsteds and knitting-pins ;
but these knitting-pins she always pokes
IN his eyes unless she conquers him be-
fore she gets to plea No. 4. Should
this fail, she proceeds to -...
Plea 40. 5-0r The Compara-
tire Piea.-All her departed lovers
are made to pass before the unhappy
man, and he is compared with them.
one by one. If she had married Mr.
Snooks--a. E. the coachman-she would
have had a livery. If she had married
Mr.. Swizzle, she would have lived in
style on Broad street. If she had mar
ried--in fact, anybody but her husbans
she would have been treated like q
human being. He, perhaps, becomes
little angry, and suggests if she hac
married Adam she would have dressed
like Eve! But as she had married
him, she must wear what he can give
her. This rouses her temper, and she
comes Immediately to =
Plea No. Cor He Pea Con-
clusiue.-Which consists of threat tc
60 to her mother, and many upbraid-
ings that he brought her away from the
joys Of her own home to abuse and
make her miserable.
Now, no man was ever able to stand
all these pleas. He generally falls at
No. 1, and only in extreme cases reach
es No. 6.
[ NEVER FoRGIvE.-In the course OF
voyage to America, Mr. Wesley heard
Gen. Oglethorpe, with whom he sailed,
making a great noise in the cabin, on
which he stepped in to know the cause.
The General Immediately addressed
him, saying:
"Mr. Wesley, you must excuse me,
I have met with provocation too great
for q man to bear. You know the only
wine l drink is Cypress wine, as it
agrees with me the best Of any. !
therefore provided myself with several
dozen of it, and this villain (his SER
want who was present, almost dead with
fear) has drank up the whole oft But
I will be revenged on him-I have or
dered him to be tied hand and foot, and
to be carried to the man. of-war which
sails with US. The rascal should have
taken care how he used me so, for
never forgive"
''Then, sir, said Mr.. Wesley, calm
ly to him, 81 hope you never sim"
The General, COMPOUNDED at the re-
proof, threw his keys to the servant and
babe him to do better in future.
Here, then, is the point. live would
never forgive, we must never sin. The
very proncress to sin which we find in
ourselves, should be most powerful
incentive to the cultivation Of spirit
Of forgiveness.
THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERcY.-If
you find man disposed to complain
Of the GOODNESS Of the world, be sure
you will find that he has never brought
anything into the world to Warm it, but
is personal lump Of ice in the midst
Of it. II you find a man who COM
plains that the world is all base and
hollow, tap him, and he will probably
sound base and hollow. And so, in the
other way, kind man will probably
find kindness everywhere about him.
The merciful man, as general thing,
will obtain mercy. He who has always
had kind excuse for others, who has
looked at the brightest side of the case,
he who has rendered his pardon and
his help whenever he could, who has
never brought his fellowman into any
strait by reason Of not helping him,
Will find that the mercy which he has
bestowed flows back upon him in full
and spontaneous spring. He will make
a merciful world by the mercy he him.
self shows. Rec. E.. II. Mopin,
CHARACTER Is POWER. is often
said that knowledge is power-and this
is true. Skill or faculty Of any kind
carries with it superiority. So, to a
certain extent, wealth is power, and
rank is power, and intellect is power,
and genius has transcendent gift Of
mastery over men. But, higher, pure1,
onN hoktor &bon Ill