Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-07-10
From the HONE JoURNAL.l
MATRIMONIAL INFELICITIES.
BY AN IRRITABLE MAN.
In The TtriIiqht.


For the last half hour have been endeavoring
to get a wink of sleep; but no sooner do lose
myself than you come down with a crescendo or
other kind of movement, which startles me as If
a cannon had been fired by my side. Why YOU
can't practice in the morning, when am absent
Instead of waiting until evening, when I come
home, is a matter / don't understand, You know
well enough that if there be One thing 1 dislike
more than another, it is the thrurnming OF
piano
4 really thought my wife replied, that the
air was playing would soOthe and please you.
1t used TO be favorite Of yours before we were
married, and l like it because it revives happy
memories
We'll, don't object to your 'reviving happy
memories ; but you viii greatly oblige me by
letting tie keys of the piano rest for awhile.
like to take nap just after dinner; but for sew
( eral days past l have teen unable to do so be
cause you would practice your abominable mar
ches and quicksteps. hear enough martial mu-
sic when | am down town, and l don't care 70
/ listen to it after l get home
/ i fear my wife answered, Il that YOU are not
/ as patriotic as l wish you were'
. i
( piled, and 90 for the Union with all nv heart,
but then l don't want to be disturbed with hav-
ing Yankee Doodle dinned into my cars every
hour in the twenty four
But was not playing that air, my dear, it
was Love Not which l am sure YOU used TO
, like
Perhaps I did l answered, saud can but
wish now, especially that you keep me awake
with it, that had followed the advice it gives
: | knew it was march, too, you were playing
for all the military bands employ it as a stock
piece. But why viii you keep drumming on
that piano when have just told you l want to
sleepP
! L had no idea,' my wife said, that you could
sleep when you were talking but, if you desire
it, 1 viii play more
We'll, I DO desire it, said and, what Is
rno7o, ] wish yog would play only in the morn
ing. and not in the evening"
I In the morning, my DEAR my wife replied,
( I have other things to attend to- 1t is only in
( the evening, when the little ones are in their
beds, that have opportunity Of touching the
keys Of my piano. Still l VIII give up my music
entirely. lock the instrument, and give you the
key, rather than you should 90 without your
nap. wish, though, you would converse more
with me than you DO, and not be all the time
writing, or reading the newspapers, or sleeping,
when you are in the house.
We'll, you certainly are a most unreasonabl,
woman, if you think | have nothing to do but
entertain you, Don't l talk TO You at the IA
, bic p
Yes you do she replied; but what is tht
subject Of your conversational Simply fndin;
fault with what you are eating, and scolding th'
chil@iren because they, taking their cue from you
refuse to eat what you give them You nere
relate TO me what Is going on in the world, no
say pleasant things to me, nor tell me you low
me-
Good gracious . l exclaimed. how can tel
you love You when my mouth is filled viii
bread and butter. Besides. told you so once
and don't sec tie object in continually reitera
ting it
a wife, she replied, never wearies Of heariri
, her husband say ne loves her. Why, even you
before we were married. used to want me to sa
J over and over again, that l loved you 1o
certainly have not forgotten it,
I'm sure dent remember l said . br
q please, don't say anything more about it, for
want 70 % to sleep
! Well, l have not forgotten it, if you have
: my wife answered, with a sigh, 'and If is We
: fer you, perhaps, that do remember it,
. Now, my love- ! cried, of course we bol
6 remember it; but won't you stop your talkir
50 that l can take my nap-for. if there be ol
- thing dislike more than another, it Is to be i
prived of my after-dinner nap
~ wife said nothing; but, closing the plan
she left it. and, taking a seat near the windor
i opened a volume of engravings- Rustic. rust
= went the leaves. l endured it for FIVE minuts
then
rs My DEAR said, 'if you expect l can sic
while You are rattling the pages Of that book, v
If are greatly mistaken. You might well pl
"a on the piano
.r You can't be very sleepy she replied,
4 this keeps You awake. You are too nervous
!. go to Sleep
,t But l will 90 to sleep said, and am L
nervous, either. ] don't see why you should vi
to provoke me, by saying / am nervous, a
Is seeking to keep me awake
ne Such an object she answered, : is very
IT from being my intentions indeed, l wish y
a were asleep
e, 'Of course l said, you want me to go
n sleep. You never seem TO be at all satisfied WI
us me unless when l am asleep. Then, fortunate
I'd you can find nothing in my actions with VIII
tn to find fault
M M why, then said the provoking woinl
p. don; you go TO sleep
'Now,' ! exclaimed, e J viii not 20 to slee