Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-10-01

The Grumbiing Husband.

Mrs. Ordelle c. llowk, residing in Sierra Val .
Icy, is author of the following severe and perhaps
too truthful lecture to grumbling husbands 1t
was written for the Sierra Democrat, and with
the exception OF the closing paragraph, which is /
terribly Fanny Fern-ish, is recommended to the
perusal OF the stovepipe and pantaloon gender"
both married and single;
III ever there was bpcd worthy to be hetch-
qled and drawn the Goals, it is most assured.
u a man who with well assumed tenderness woos
and wins a trusting, loving girl away from the
PARENTAL roof, to where, in after years of bitter
experience, with many burning heartachc she
has leisure to repent the folly of youth and
purse the reptile that charmed the dove from its
Iest.
1t is all very we'll before to talk my duck
tmy jewel my honey my peppermint tdrops,'
nd other soft words OF endearment all very
|Aell, say, before the matrimonial moose is adj
|jstcd. But mind ye, these soft eulogisms are
afterwards transformed into kitchen lectures
Iehch he always delivers, bat and cane in hand
|lreparatory to hls leaving for an hour or two
2rith his chumS--his club-his dear Dashawuys'
where good Jamaica rum and the Frcnchmans
taret and Dutchmans lager are bounteously
dispensed in such fearful quantities that even Bu-
hanan, our Pennsylvania President, would stand
certified with sheer astonishment, at such bachelor
rodigality and wastefulness.
Like pompOuS Caesar he always stations him
" the doorway and asks with u consequential
it. how much the store bills of last week amoun-
d to aud sincerely thinks the cabbage aud DO,
ltoes, coffee aud tea, ought by rights to last at
ast few weeks longer ; and would, too, If he
ad some women he kaoics Of to practice domestic
Economy.
! lie is a sort of civilized savage, forever and q
day telling his toiling, patient wife what hand,
some girls loved he and what his devoted moth
q In IIn MI briu
home to dinner, without the slightest warming
halfa-dozen OF his chnms giving only the slam
bang Of the door bell to announce their arrival
and ii Mrs. jerry Smith don't in a iffy fix up the
table tit for II king, she is audacously frowncd
out of the apartment and ii by pure accident
her face becomes AS scarlet over the hot cooking
stove as the scanty roast before baStng he in one
of his blandest tones tells them that Mrs Jerry
Smith has II slight fever--a nervous hcadachc-or
the consequence OF keeping late hours.
Now come, yc Of the stovepipe and pantaloon
GENDER and let me take you by the coat sleeve
SO you may take "a good peep behind the som
bre curtains that always en>hroud II grumbliag
mans house and see with what Spartan abstc.
mousness she turns and mends the old faded silk
dress with ten years age upon it patches old
clothes darius stitches her worthless life away
Look at her-see her laborng in the il-vcntjla-
ted kitchen, with her two feet rocking squaling,
promising young Smith-the while singing a
hands into the pie crust aud -four up to her red |
elbows wishing she had few more hands and .
busy fingers that she mis- ght work the faster
Doesn't she know that supper is to be got half.
ldozen crying children to be undressed for bed
md Godfrey's baby cordial to be given to Young
Terry, to secure for herself through the tardy
coming night solitary dream, and secure time
O chalk off garden spot in Uncle Mods vast
lreamland dominion?
Before retiring 10 haunting night visions, she
lervonsly places her absent husbands slippe,s
md dressing gown in their accustomed places
nd throws on II few more sticks of wood to have
he room warm when her liege lord shall have
eturned from the noisy bar-rOom or his charm
ng debating club, or any one OF the thousand
grievances which the resislless waves OF Time
ire ever lhrusting upon The humdrum tread wheel
If her miserable existence
And yet, dare she breathe above a eats whisper
word about human endurance, equality, or wo-
nan's rights? Her rights what are ihey q I
light to work 20 hours out Of the twice Ia ,
Ight-a lifelong right--to mcckly wear the :
alling matrimonial yoke, which exacting, IN.
ralding, scoldng, grumbing man has placed
pon her tender shoulders in such u manner that
Ithout shame she cannot revolt nor turn round
or take step backward in the dusty, toillnQ, d
lorny highway OF life. With her accumulated
lfthehs sue must ever trudge onward uncom-
aniugly, with the hot tears fallin, and blister q
y ihwardly, and the rattling skeleton of wasted !
)pcs, wlthered joys, ever tightening around her /.
sartstrings Oh say, ye grum6ling bipeds y
ho innocenty wear stovepipcs pants aud neck y
es you Justly deserve, for your inhumanty, to y
shaken Ike young 0p0ssum over the burning 5
atcr OF Mount Nesuylus-or let down, with :
)man's blessings, into the frighlful, laundering "
aelstrom Of Norway