Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-05-07


larn dc wash.basin down IL Dc sink, but
hang It lampp on dc nail an wop't pick
% chips in mIlk.pan, Ct I'm In ever SO
blg hurry Tll do ebcrylhiug jes rs ye
telsme. Now you try me All see il won't 7
Candaco here alluded 70 some Of Che lit
Gle private wilfullucsses which she had al
ways obstinately cherished as reserved
rights, pursuing domestic matters with her
mistress az
Il lniend,' said Mr.. Murvyn, TO make
the snme offer to your husband, when he
fetefns from work tonight fNfI n
'Caus, Mass'r, why, Cato he'll do jes'
as do,-dore ant no kind o. need O. ask
ing him. Course he wilk'
A smile passed aronnd the circle, because
between Candace and her husband there
existed one Of these whimsical contrasts
which one sometimes sees in married iife.- -
Cato was . snmlLbailt, thin, softly-spoken
negro, adricted to gentle chronic cough,
and though faithful and skillful servant
seomed. in relation to his better half, much
like bill Of potatoes under spreading
appletree Candace held to him with We
hement and patronizing fondness, 50 devoid
Of cOnjugal reverence as to excite the COM
meHts of her friends.
You must remember, Candace,' said q
good deacon to her one day, when she was
ordering him about at catechiziug, you
ought to give honor to your husband the
wife is the weaker vessel
II de weaker vessel Y' said Candace
looking down from the tower Of her ample
corpulence on the small, quiet man whom
She had been Hedging with the ample folds
Of her worsted comforter, out of which his
little head and shining bead-eyes looked,
much like blackbird in a nest, II de weak
er vessel? Umph !"
A whole woman's-right convention could
not have expressed more in a day than was
given in that single look and word. Can
daee considered husband as a thing to b6
taken care of,--a rather inconsequent and
somewhst troublesome species of pet, to be
humored, nursed, fed, clothed and guided
iF The way that he was to go,-an animal
that was always losing of buttons, catch
ing cold, wearing his best coat every day
aud getting onlhis Sunday hat in a surrep
tious manner for weekday occasions bal
she often condescended to express it as bel
opinion that he was blessing and that she
didn't know what she should do il it wasn't
for Cato. In fact, be seemed to supply her
that which we are told is the great want
In woman's situation -an object in life
She sometimes was heard expressing her
self very energetically in dsapprobation O
the conduct of one of her sable friends
named Jenny Stiles, who, after being pre-
sented with her own freedom, worked seve
raj years to buy that of her husband, but
became afterwards so disgusted with her
acquisition that she declared she would
"neber buy anoder nigger."
Now Jenny don't know what she's talk
ing about" she would say "S'pose he
does cough and keep her awake nights, an
take a little too much sometimes, ant he
better'n no husband at all ? 4 body
wouldn't seem hab muffin to lib for, ef the!
hadn't an ole man to lock arter Men i
nate'lIy foolish about some things,
dey's good deal better'n nufin"
And Candace, after this condescendin:
remark, would lift off with one hand bras
kettle in which poor Cato might have beel
drowned, and fly across the kitchen with i
as if it we're feather.