The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-06-27
The Morning after.

Nothing she replied, in tone, however,
which clearly signifed the reverse.
But know there is answered, for you
have spoken scarcely a word since | sat down
to breakfast
4 did not suppose she said that you cared
to have me speak. 1t does not seem probable
that husband who will leave his wife alone an
entire evening, as you have done, could have
any wish to hear her utter word"
"A good deal will depend, my dear, under
those circumstances, l replied, as to what the
subject of her conversation may be- If she be
likely to find fault with him for having passed
one evening out of-say a month, away from
home. why then think she had better remain
silent
'Oh! you think so, do you 2 she exclaimed,
then all l can say is that so far as l am CON
cerned, l will not have my tongue tied, but
will tell you just what think of such acts
Very well, my DEAR | said, go on; | will
| listen. But first of all, let me tell you that
think it was very unkind in you not to sit up
for me last night. A good wife will sit up for
her husband, when he is out, until morning, if
he come not home before Then too, let me tell
you, it is confoundedly unpleasant to find all
the lights out, and the very gas itself turned off
and not candle or match to be found any
where. If it had not been for the moonlight,
which streamed in at my window,I should have
| broken my neck stumbling over the chairs, which
it seems to me, were purposely placed where
| might run against them. Now, if there be one
thing dislike more than another, it is to break
my neck stumbling over chairs in the dark
We'll you are nice man must say, my wife
replied. i really had no idea that You were in
the extreme state which your words imply. In
the first place, the gas was left burning, and
now that you have drawn my attention TO it, l
see it is burning at this moment-please turn
it off will you In the next, it was raining
hard when you came home, and consequently
the moon was not shining. AS for your not be-
ing able to find the candle and matches, why l
think 1t would prove matter of little conse-
quence to one who could not tell gas-lght from
moonlight, though so far as the fact of the case
goes, both the candle and matches were in their
usual place. Lastly, as to your breaking your
neck by stumbling over chairs, why all l have to
say IS, that l think you will BIO likely to live a
thousand years before such an event occurs
What l most look at and regret, however, is
that you are setting a most pernicious example
to the children
Good gracious 7 exclaimed, what a woman
you are to talk. Why the children were sound
asleep when | returned and if you didn't tell
them, they wouldn't know whether l came
nome on my head or feet l must say too, | |
think 1t was very wrong in you, to pretend TO
be asleep, and allow me to stumble abound in |
the dark as you did
But tell you, it was net dark my wife re-
piled, i saw every step you took, and if you
had broken your neck over the chairs, as you
imagine you almost did, should have been the
first to have known it.
i suppose you would have known it, said |
even before l were aware of it myself
Very likely she answered, for you seemed
TO know very little. But suppose now, you tell
NE where you were last evening. You left the |
house, saying you were going to the market,
and would return in few moments. l waited |
Tor you patiently till eleven o'clock, when went
to bed, and l know it must have been after
twelve when you came home. l did not know
but that you had been robbed and murdered, |
and l really was very much alarmed about you.
You must have been exceedingly alarmed, l |
answered, 80 have gone to sleep as you did
The fact is, if there be one thing dislike more
than another, it is to come home and find my
wife abed'
You have said just the contrary The anna
bic woman answered, when you have found /
me sitting up for you. The truth is, there is |
no pleasing you men. We poor women are |
you lords OF creation, Oh | sometimes wish
were man, if it were only to show your sex
how to treat ours properly, But you have not
yet told me where you were last night
'Oh! l went replied, to hear Madame Bish-
op sing the Flag of our Union, and l WISH you !
had been with me-
1 should have liked nothing BETTER she ans
wered but you never asked me to accompany
you. WE'LL how were you pleased p
oh didn't hear her. said; Il met friend
who invited me to go and see the Clinton
Guards drill. They are a splendid corps my
dear. l wish you had been with me-
L wish had, my wife Replied but remem-
Der, you did not ask me. Tell me though, now
the Guards appeared
We'll, actually, my DEAR l replied, didn't
see them. My friend and myself thought we d |
stop first and take some oysters at the Waverly;
and while eating them, we concluded we would |
go to the Winter Garden and hear Blake and
So them. Really,I wish you had been with us.
Il wish l had, my wife answered for, OF
course, you went to the Winter Garden
We'll, no., answered but what woman
you are to ask questions You'd make good !
lawyer. l hope you are through now at all
events, for if there be one thing 1 dislike more
than another it is to be crosse questioned
But you have net yet tod me where you
went, she said. so you didn't hear Blake, at
ter all
Not exactly replied, though we met a
friend Of my friends whose name was Blake |
and with whom we took some more oysters
oh you took more oysters, did you! my
wife calculated. i noticed your appetite was
exceedingly limited this morning. Well, after
these second oysters Wnefe QlQ you 20!
Good gracious = l exclaimed, L won't answer
any more questions l have patiently borne be- /
ing catecmsed till you have extracted from me
every thing that can tell about where went
and what l did last night; and / won't stand it |
any longer. il you want to know anything
more, you'll have to see my friends and ask them.
4 am afraid my dear my wife replied sadly, |
that you went somewhere you would not care
TO let me know
We'll, you certainly are most suspicious
and foolish woman, l said, to think your hus-
band would go where he would be ashamed to
take his wife. l only wish you had been with
me-
Il truly wish had she replied.
The fact is my dear l saiG, that after the
second plate OF oysters | started to come h ONE.
well you stopped and got some more oysters
presume, my wife suggested.
Yes, believe we did,, l replied; and then
after that some time-I don't know when ex-
actly-L got home, l am afraid / ate too many
oysters, my dear, for l have quite headache
this morning. Do you think that oysters as a
general thing are as good in June as they are
earlier in the season.
4 don't think they are, especially too many |
of Them my wife replied with sad smile and
nay dear, let me beg Of you not to eat any more
with your and your friends friend. Promise |
me that, will your
promised by kissing her on the cheek, as l
smoothed her hair from her brow.
And you will not go to hear Madame Bish-
op, or see the Guards drill, or to the Winter
Garden, she continued, unless you take me
with you !?
l said would not, and then--why, then she
kissed me.
forgiveness is most excellent virtue, and
should form part of the character of all men.
1t is a convenience, when a fool seeks to wrong
you, to possess the charity to say: "Fool 1
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