Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-02
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THE TWO WIVES

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Mr Dodge is good mar; he pays his taxes,
Tor him, and for christening the ehildreA; he
pays the baker and the butcher lfberally, and!
buys the 'cunningest little CATERS for little.
May, which rejoices the heart Of Mrs Dodge,
very greatly. Mrs Dodge Gomez down in the
morning with such pretty wrappers; the chill.
dren are all starched and ironed-we mean;
;a.a inslr aprons trowsers getticosts, frocks and
poor things-till they set. ont Ike spinning
tops: Then the coffee is 50 good, the rolls are
80 nice that everybody says Mr. Dodge is the
happiest man alive. - 81 :.
Of course he:is. Why should not Mr. Dodge
be happy man? Mrs. Dodge does not. .sco1d
or tret; she does not talk about the coal, nor
the work, nor the cook. If the truth must be
told, she does not talk at all The highest ex-
ercisa OF eloquence in which she was ever
known to indulge was in exhibiting a black
spot upon one corner of the forehead of the
baby, eleven months old, who, with the aspir-
ing propensities of Young America, had crept
up stairs slowly, by the side of the bannisters,
bonnet before the looking glass.
Mrs Dodge told, in vivid words, her emo
tions, as she heard the small, soft brain of her
chlid pump, bump, from stair to stair expect
Ing to find 1t at the foot, nothing but m ass. of
jelly; then how shs-ran and picked him up,
and how black he was in the face, and how she
sentthe nurse trampingy and how she sat down
at, tne fo0t OF the stairs and cried as if she
would never stop crying. '.'s - 8. 81 .:.:g,
w hen Mrs Dodge had exhausted her sensi.
bllities and rhetoric, both at the same time she
subsided into plain Mrs. Dodge, with the clean
apron and orderly household y ri
Mr.. Dodge read his newspaper, slipped his
coffee, and CALCULATED inwardly J" II am the hap
piest man alive;'' as he did SO he heaved, deep
Mr.. Dodge did not know why he sighed. He
had nothing of which to complain All his
dom estlc surroundings were just rs they should
Pc; positively good Mrs Dodge, the chill
dren, the table, the house, all were the very
best OF her kind. And Mr.. Dodge knew it ali
and yet he could not help profound sigh in
view of all these blessings Not that the sieh
was at all prophetic, like that of the Moor
whose cup was overfowing with its breaker
orim OF happiness, and he exclaim.:
r,.ltt-y .hlf it were now to die .. - -., 60 -
hs9 content Ss 30 SIIpy 70, soul
1Ahoshef comfort like to this succeeds
49, lp unknown fate, = = -s,y
.GINeslMr. Dodge's Sigh proceeds ed from no such
CONSCIOUSNESS, but rather from a sense of va
caney, as II ne had great spare cham ber in
his heart, which might never be furnished.
Then he saw young Mr. Hubbard. the. car
Peatak. with his pretty wife. standing by the
wlnder of the small house opposite, where was
q fose-tree and geranium in full bloom. The
little tidy vita (she did not use near as muchl
starch as Mrs. Dedge) was reading something
fsam' the newspaper with her hand upon her
kgsbsnd's shoulder, and Mr.. Dodge saw that
tsA were animated, When she had done;
reading they talked together and laughed !;
and both seemed greatly in concert, and thens
tnere was movement as the husband won't
toward the door, that said Just as plain as al, VI
words !. kiss" and MIR. Hubbard went out With
bound. How bright and strong and happy
lSna {Sosng Mr, Hubbard seems" thought Mr..
It was: very plain Mr.. Hubbard went ont
with a kiss and not with sigh Mr. Hubbard
bad q wife who could talk -and- think.- I'M
other words, Mrs. Hubbard had ideas in hSr
brain, and Mr.. Hubbard went out 70 his work
with his heart refreshe ed with lively affection
not q dead habit Of life, and with some lovely!
aspiration doing its beautiful work to his
whole nature. Mrs Hubbard was like woman.
whose thoughts came and went with the vivid j
ness et a Kaleidoscope, and whose pretty fan
cics lent charm to all she said or did She
had always something bright and new about:
her, arose in her hair, a trim boddice, q scrap
from book, or some harmless bit of gossip
that made them laugh, and yet did no harm to-
anybedy. =. - -
No, indeed, Mr.. Hubbard has no barn of a.
room in his heart, for his bright, CHEEKY Wife
busted out every cobweb with her lively ways
and filled every corner; now with. a vases Of
beeu1ful flowers, now a bust of some old prsnd
thfrker, now a statuette Of beauty, and now
light, now shadow, for her thoughts and sent. q
ments were wide awake, and her husband was
loving sppreciator of all their beauty, 4
= Stiff aprons, and nice trowsers, and pretty
morning dresses, and good coffee, light rolls
are all excellent In their way, but somehow
they leave room for signing, while a BRIGHT 1
-ehstty wife, who thinks her own vav snd
knows how to think with you also, iiIs the
heart 30 full 1t has no room for siebing,
.. Besides all this, your bright chstty wife
knows how to plan for thousand little COM
forts ppthought OF by the orthodoxy precise
wife, whose thoughts never 90 on any eIplors
tion beyond the ironing table the cookstoyei
and parlor lounge, Depend upon il, a woman
with thought now and then working in her
brain, stirring and aspiring is the one with
the sweetest smile and the tenderest kiss.
commend US to woman who writes a scrau
Of poetry now and then. She is the one -
:. =, 3" TO make sunshine in shady place.,
She will take the oddest old things and eiva
them touch and a turn quite IRRESISTIBLE
Your rickety table and wheezy arm -ohair will
get sort Of brightness and comfort from ber
ready fingers by which your learning will all
.''be made easy and your aching back -ba
better Modified" than by any .sointment.,i
Why she viii put. vase here and a tassei
there, which will make your room look ex!
traysgantly handsome, when, after all. thS
cost was little or nothing. Never be AFRAID OF
woman of taste and ideas; she is the ,truS
Copsuel0., -. =.
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