Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-14
4 VISIT TO THE COUNTRY.
NJ AS IRRITABLE HUSBAND.

t>'e0 you want 10 20 into the country. do
4op T. | said to my amiable spouse, ~ she
Y1nsied herself in arranging the trimming
80 our little girls bonnet. The little one
,11;sslf had just asked her mother if she
- to wear that bonnet when she went
pee grandmother.
!<sYes, my wife replied, Il think it would
n ef benefit TO the children. They. as
lwell as myself, need change of air."
IA Fl suppose you have fully decided when
ard where 90 Co." said.
ER"No," she answered, II meant first TO
consult with you before came 10 any de-
<ision
.ss..Nell, that was wise IN you, at least
r<,,lied, for my private opinion is tha;
YOU won't see the country this year, at all
events. don't understand, either, why
you can't remain IN the city as well as !.
Yna reYer beard ne talk of going into
the country. Why, should ~ COON !h!nk
of Ko!ng to Africa. The city is 1lHays
u>1ch cooler than the country, and every.
lhIng which serves to make life eudurabie
y q be found in town, while out of it you
can get nothing. If there is one place
1isIike more than another, II Is the coun-
sry.r
Bat remember, my dear" said my wife,
that you very often go into tho country
ior , day or two at a time on business; bu;
iuover obtain any such q change"
GOOD gracious !" eXclai med, Il don,
s<o Why you Should. You have everything
provided for you, and you have nothing
" 10 but stay at home and enjoy yourself,
while must run the risk OF losing my life
IN SAilroads in attending to business, so as
% eeable me to provide for you aud the
chiIdren.
&t'Y You find time, thou gh, on :hese occa-
sio1 I my wife said, "to get few hours
1h1oling so il is not always business alone
lth1< keep you away"
*eWeli," said, suppose | do OCCASION
nlIy oteal an hour from business 10 shoot
M .Gxh, haven't perfect right to do so
Y6a speak as if it were a sin. I'm certain
work hard enough after | get back, to
p4y for the indulgence. You wives, tho
think that husbands ought to do nothing
el~o but work for their families Aud
whether theweaihcr be hot or c)ld II Diat.
ters very little to YOU but the moment
june axrives, you. torsooth, begin to talk
about The heat, and your health, and
change of air for the children, and sum.
mer complaints, and hint, and insnua,e
and suggest, and finally declare that you
must no TO the country to escape that
boist erous Fourth OF July, with its noise
aud dirt. You want TO go only for II iey
days, bat as you get away you settle your
selves down for the entire summer under
green trees, and when we poor husbands
write TO you to come home, after the
Fourth is passed, you answer that 1t would
b dangerous to take the children back to
the city until the cool weather arrives. SO
tho result is that we husbands destroy our
health by hard work, and partaking oi
eating house dinners, while you cit III
nsuslin gowns, anI eat strawberries and
ore&m, and enjoy yourselves generally,
withont cares and srnoyances ofany kind.
well, | Confess" said Dy wife, that
Yea hnRe drawn q graphic picture, but one
that y scaroely correct. For my part,
havo tny cares and troubles when in the
country as we'll "a ! do IN town; but the
change of life is agreeable and beneficial,
and enables me 10 endure the condne-
I6ent which is mine the rest of the year. "
"Well." said, II don't see how you
will be. able 10 do this season the times
are 20 hard can scarcely obtain money
hnn.,,h "a enable Us TO live at home. You
Know q we'll as &c that have met with
49, losses uu:.iing the last lew months
and Ror | can spare ceS! for un1nsoessa'
y exponses is more than can tell"
"I6ball not require moro than hun
drsd dollsrs." said my wife, "to get ready
with: and then our board in the country
pjII nos be much"
fsA{ddnp wish to hear you cay any MOI Q
atout'it." said; ~ can't give you bum
died dollars, and you must content your
~ Nth remaining in town this summer
o., you needn't look SO grum about 1t, for
4 c1nit-be helped"
lsI oncpose," my wife said. that II my
mosher invites me and the children 10 visl.
Der. thai you will not object to our going,
ssb<cilllya as II will not cost snythipg for
board, and our expenses for the whole
khr6o months will be scarcely fifty dollars"
.tsYh>d Pat her nav votlr board for n wear -