Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-09-28
MARRIED MEMS WEAKNESSES.

The aDisbanded Volunteer" whose philo-
sophicaI observations have attracted the notice
and obtained the praise of many, thus dlsconr.
seth subject prompted by smarrid lady ::
ga marrid lady having airneStly rekwested
my views on the subjeck of marrid men goinl
tn clubs and lodges, and carryin' nite-keys, L
wuust more seeZe my pen tn state wot think.
in my opinyin, ort to be the barring of husbands
toards thar wyves, hopin' to fetch the feain's S
of all catterwaulin' Benny Dicks as skoots a
round arter dark, by a few morril remarks on
her unhappy tale. She SEE, in 'billy now
lynn before me, and witch l hev evry reason
to believe vorashis, that her spows blongs to so
many societies that he mought as well not
blong TO her at all. He takes his evening
meal tn hum, and that's the last of him, she
seZ, until midnite or arter when he Gums back,
smellin' fragranty of mereshoms and BorbHn
wisky, and, without givin' her a kiss or a
skweedge, turns in with his back to her, and
sleeps like log till the breakfast bell rings.
My correspondent remarks that this amt the
kinder usidge she bargined fur, and wants to
no if l think it's decent way TO behaiv to a
yung and buXum wife. Sartainly not. \ o
boldly, she allows, could be more ardent in his
attenshuns than he wos doorin' the hunny
moon, wen he spent evry evenin' to hum, but
sens he took to stayin' out at mites he seems
like ali altered man. She concloods by akin
wot she can do to brake him of his bad habits,
and bring him back to the dummestic sirkel of
witch he W0S WunSt the OrnymeDt.
ssThe case of this poor abandoned femail is
not a soentary wun by a considrabul crowd.
Clubs is onfav orabul to connewbi 4 bliss. and
marrid man has no more bizuess with 'em than
Samson he'd with his coconut in the lap of
Daylilee. For a man to play n club agen his
wifes hart, is burned mean game; and the
| husband as prefers goin' to lodge with the
Odd-Fellers to goin' hum to lodge with his
lorfrl bedfeller, deserves, in the langwidge Of
Longfeller, (I think it must be Longfeller, be-
kaSe heeS the poick of Iniuu life) to be sent
! to "a lodge in sum vast wilderness, whar thar S
nuthin' but a boundless consangwinity of
shade.' [ skairsly know wot advice to give
my fair querest and uthers in setch predicky-
ment. Ef the legislator was settin' it mought
be a good plan to petishin iur law agin adj
mittin' men inter privit organizashins without
thar wyveS consent, same as thar is agin let
TIM emmy yung men under foreteen inter the
theay turs without thar gardens. But Seein'
as that august boldly doeSent meet agin till
January, the wimmin must resort to persway-
sive meshurs in the intrim. The three-lcgged
stool and gardin-rake sistem. hes been tride
! and proovd onsucksessful. Gettn' inter a
mans har oney raises his dander. Ef huS-
band is unreasonable, thar's better ways than
that of cuttin his comb for him. l reckymend
neglected wives to get up secret assosiashins
of thar own. Union is strength. Why should
ent they hev club rooms, and play at poker
and billyards, as well as thar conjugial pard-
ners? Eff dissypated husband, on arrivin' at
his dummysill at l A. NJ, was informed by
the Biddy that Mrs. So-and-So was out atten-
dim meetin' of the Darters of Malta, the
Marrid Rites Club or the F. O. E. of NJ. a. N.
Society, heed purity soon begin to understand
wot O'Clock it was, reckin. Or she mought
send for one of her old bows TO sit up with her
fur perteckshin ontl he cum in. Eff this last
menshined mcdicin diddent wurk, the case
mought be considered oncurabul but Ime in
clned to think that the stray sheep would
prefer goin' back to the fold at the proper
time, to hevin his vakant place filled by ma
| bee a wolf in sleeps clothin'.
s.Failn' in the abuv treatment, | don't no
of emmy uther speeches of morrill, swashin as
would be likely to melt his Obdurate hart.
| Highstrikes is played out; so is doggin' hus-
| bands from place TO place like detective per-
| leeceman; SO is artifshal pisinn' and sending
for the doctor and the stummick pnmp. How
sever, hev known the wuSt cases of travelin'
around to be cured by smiles and tears and
tenderness-and prehaps that's the right eend
to begin at. l predicate from the tone of my
correspondents letter that shoes ridin' the
high horse. Possibly she mought find il more
to her advantage to dror it mild.
ssWith the deepest symparthy for all marrd
wimmIn cussed with unsatisfactory paTdners,
and correspondent contempt for all husbands
who neglecks their marrytal duties, RENAME,
yours, allus, A DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER