Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-04-12

Uessrs. Editors am Obliged to Rc-
knowledge that my wife. Mrs. Lovel, com
plctely governs me. Sometimes venture
60 quote the New Testament to her, and
show her the great obligation she is under
20 render all due obedience to her husband
and as wo were married Episcopal fashion,
/ alluded also to the promise she made
from, the prayer book. 80 love. honor and
obey" But it Is all of no avail. for she
persists in ruling the children. and the un-
fortunate gentleman whose signature is at
che bottom Of this article. Allow me to
ssatc . very few of the many instances in
which she assumes to lazy down the law
As my family. including two servants,
numbers Just nine persons, was DESTROYS
some three years ago to hire a house at
$500 per anum instead of the one we now
occupy, for which we pay 5000; hut Mrs.
Lowell insisted that we could live quite
comfortably in the smaller house, and that
the difference Of rent could be laid by, for
. rainy day. Well. reprehensiblc as it
may seem to you. she carried her point
there was no withstanding her will. and
oil that said went for nothing To be
sure. the money saved has been added to
another amount which we had previously
put out on bond and mortgage, but what
kind of an offset is this would like to know
against INSTRUMENTATION in mans house
hold? There is scarcely subject comes
up for consideration, on which | am not
compelled to knock under to the ''head of
the house." Joe Ventilato, for instance,
was quite anxious that should join the
Odd Fellows Lodge to which he beloGss,
and felt very favorable to hceoniing a
member of this fraternii- myself; and so
laid the whole m==...cr before my wife, ask
ing her APPROVAL.
= showed her all the advantages that
would arise from it, how they always al
lowed weekly payment in case of sick
ness, and buried him after he was dead !;
but twas all to no purpose. Mrs. Lowell
said she knew enough of arithmetic to see
that, In the long run. the members of a
lodge. collectively. put in more money than
they took out! For it stands in reason.
she continued. speaking quite emphatical-
ly,) that the sums paid to support sick
Esen. and to bury dead men, must be MINIS
the receipts from the members. al the ex-
pensc for room, fuel, lights. officers wages
and( a. Mrs. Lovel would have it for sup
pers ard drinks. / endeasored to convince
her that the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows would scorn to make use of their
money for suppers and drinks-but she
insisted that no reliance whatever could be
placed in these men when they were absent
from their wives and families; and she
couldn't by any means consent to let me
be running off to night lodges. and having
my head filed with secrets that / should be
obliged to keep from herself. Joe Ventil
alto laughed like grinning monkey when
! told him the result of my application,
and even went so far as to throw out q sly
jnsinuation about petticoat government;
and ell / can say is, that If he intended the
insinuation for. me. why, he wasn't very
lar out of the way, that is all,
Just so it was, too, about smoking. \
great many of my friends smoke. and one
day, about a year ago / took my first les
son; but you ought to have heard Mrs Low
ell 60 on. when in the evening she caught
the smoky odor of my breath. She made
out that Is cents worth of cigars day
was about $50 year, which in ID years
amounts to over $500 enough" she re-
marked, "for moderate stock of furniture
for each of our two little daughters when
they come to get married. And besides"
she inquired, do you want the boys to fol-
low your example; would you like to see
Oliver and Philip and Calvin going around
the house with nasty cigars in their mouths,
splitting tobacco juice on the carpets. and
smoking up the clothes and window cur
tains."
Ny first lesson, you may rest assured
WAS my last one. have never had ci-
gar in my mouth from that day to this
A gentleman ofmY acquaintance, great
theatrical character, presented me with tick
cts for my whole family to some grand
benefit at Laura Keene's theater. Now
vigorous as my wife is in her family gov
ernment, can't deny that like to please
her, and so went home anticipating very
sunny looks on her part when she learned
The great treat that was in store for herself
aud the children: but dear me- when wo-
man is on the throne, you can no more tell
what the next edict will be, than you can
prophesy what day next month it is going
to rain. Whist dill Mrs. Lowell do with
the theater tickets. but just locked them in
sbureau drawer, and putting the key in
her pocket, says. in resolute tone, "Mr.
Lovel, do you think / would have such a
temptation placed before my ehildren?-
Let them go once you say Yes, and that
once might be their ruin. While l live,
don't mean to be instrumental in taking
them on the devils ground and when |
come to die. l hope to feel free from re-
prosch."
Thus you see how determined my wife
rules us. and yet | will say for her that
she does make the children as happy as lit
tie kings and queens within doors: but
what excuse after all is this for her usurp-
ing that authority which rightfully should
te exercised by myself.
When Mr.. Violin, the dancing master,
opened school in our neighborhood,
was quite anxious that the children should
have one or two quarters tuition. rep
rssented to Mrs. Lowell that little "chas
SEE forward" "dos -a-dos," "and cross
hands all round" would improve the chill
dren's carriage. To this she playfully re-
p1iad. ssthat so far as their cayri1ae was