Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-07-31
From the HOME JOURNAL-I
MATRIMONIAL INFELICITIES.
By AN IRRITABLE Man.
Edy,ly IN the NoruiD1.

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before daylight, they must remain in the nursery.
and not come into our room with their laughter
and shouts of good morning. The fact is, if
there be one thing dislike more than another, 1t
Is to be aroused from my slumbers with cries OF
good morning. for it is anything but good to be
thus disturbed'
g But you must allow, my DEAR rejoined my
wife, that it is very pretty in the children to do
this Then that little three year old one, who
always adds to her good morning. wish you
merry Christmas'-csn anything be more child
like and beautiful z"
.'Oh. it's all well enough l said q but l
don't see the use of it so early in the morning.
If she would say It at night. when she goes to
bed, could better appreciate it. It has always
been matter of wonderment to me why children
will wake with the birds"
So The reason is very simple" my wife answer
ed, - 1t is because they 90 to bed with them No
sooner DO you come home in the afternoon, than
you begin to tell the children it is time for them
to prepare for bed and. even when you are in
the best of humor, you don't seem contented I'M
til they are safely ensconced in their cribs. Now
if you were to go to bed at six or seven o'clock,
they do, l think you would also wake up as
early in the morning"
8 perhaps SOP l replied :. but what would
be the object for me to 90 20 bed so early q"
- Why, as you tell the Children my wife said,
maciousy, - to make you grow''
Now, am rather short but l think my age
warrants me in presumng shall never be any
taller, so that when my wife answered as she did.
it provoked me. Although naturally an irritable
man, have the faculty of controlling my temper
when l think it is desirable to do SO. and, on the
present occasion, contented myself with silently
wishing my amiable spouse in Jericho Seeing
made no answer, my wife continued:
d" If it were not that the children woke you,
you wouldn't get up till ten O'Clock. Notwith
standing they wake you thus early, you don't rise
until the bell is rung for break fast, and then 1
have to call you. over and over again, until my
breath is almost gone, and haven't strength left
to serve the Coffee
Il should not think it required great leal of
strength to open the faucet of the coffee urn. es
pecally as l have heard you complain that it
often drops of its own accord, and allows the
coffee to run at Wills
:" Oh, WELL make as much sport of me as you
like; but don't complain if. when you go to
breakfast this morning, everything on the table,
including the coffee, be colo for. positively, viii
not call you. If you won't get up when the bell
rings, why you can lie abed and eat cold break
fast after the others have finished"
Very well. my DEAR said, . have it your
own way. though if l can't have in this house
my breakfast, and hot one at that, any hour /
may wish it, why, can get it at DelmonioO's
when | % down town. On the whole, I think
should prefer, for change. to do so. l should
not have to wait on the children, carving tough
steaks nor will you have to tn m out coffee for
me.''
=. Well do You know, said my wife, Il really
believe you would like to DO that. / think you
would actually enjoy taking your meals away
from your family. You wouldn't mind anything
about the expense of such proceedings, so long as
it was FIR your own qualification but if sAo'J
do so, you would declare it the height of foolish
ness. Why, if stop at Mendes' and get a cup
of chocolate some day when l wearied out,
with shopping for you and the children, you
think it extravagant, and never, indeed, hear
the last of it,"
"Well, but chocolate is such abominable stuff -
ssid, 81: sticks up ones mustache so. cannot
ina CINE how any one can like it.''
81 Fortunately my wife said. q" l have no
mpstache to be soiled with it. and, besides, like
Chocolate
Very well, if you ike it." said, " I am sure
have 10 objections to your drinking it; but
don't, for gracious sake, be recommending it to
me, for if there be one thing dislike more than
another, it is chocolate"
:. But have not recommended it," my wife
replied, &" though l think it would be better for
you than the strong coffee you Coffee
makes you nervous and irritable''
Il am not irritable 1 said, "and doubt if
4 more even tempered and amiable man does, or
ever lid, or ever will exist, than l am.'
9" Ny father" began my wife but Interrupt
ted her with declaring that j didn't wish to hear
a word about her father, or his amiability. My
wife put her handkerchief to her eyes
! "Noi" she exclaimed, g you never will permit
me to say word about my dear father If hc
/ had known, when he resigned me to you, that you
would have treated me il the harsh manner in
which you do, he never would have given hi:
consent for you TO marry me.''
.'Then ours would have been a runaway match
!. my dear, that is certain for you so deeply
in love with me that all the fathers in Christsn
dom couldn't haze kept you away from me-"
"Oh, yes, you may say that" my wife said
! smiling in spite of herself; I" but if you think
such light talk is going to make me forget youl
unkind expressions in regard to my father, yoE