Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-03-06


you in uniform; and as soon as you are
gone out Of the house, she rushes over to
Mrs. Jones to tell what "spleudid officer
her husband is, and how "magnheent" he
looks in his new military dress. Then, If
your regiment is or dersd away, and you in
sinuate that abusiness affairs" will keep you
at home all her fire is blazing in en- instant,
and she upraids you for "baeking out" AZ
the critical moment and insinuates that you
are "play boy soldier - and then she
wishes she were a man-she'd show folks
how to fight. Then, when you make up
your mind to 60 to the seat of war, she
bursts into wet tears, which spots your new
uniform and tarnish the gold lace on your
sleeves, and thinks "you ought to be ash
amed to 20 off and leave your family
She VOWS "she don't believe you care q
straw for your wife, or cent for your sweet
children - she "knows you would rather be
anywhere than at home," and "wishes she
were man, she'd teach the President better
than to send men away from their families"
Then when the day comes for you to start
she vows that she twill never speak to you
again if you persist in going" Then, when
you take paper out Of your pocket and
pretend to read furlough from the COM
mandant excusing you and giving you leave
to stay at home, she throws her apron over
her head, sits down on the floor and howls
aloud. .'To think she would have coward
for her husband"-tha her husband should
be afraid to 20 to the wars And then when
YOU tell her 1t is all mistake, and that
YOU are going because she knows you will
be killed. or she feels it in her bones that
YOU will come home with two wooden legs,
and then how can you take her to the acad-
emy on opera nights. Then she resorts in
turn to every one Of the female tactics to
keep you at home. She wseps, she banters
she pokes fun at ycu-she wishes she was
man-she gets mad-she sulks-she threat
ems to 90 home to her mother-she coaxes--
she won't live with you another day-sh'
scclds, she entreats and last of all she fainti
in this she always falls into your arms. i
you make an offer to catch her II you
don't offer, and il its early in the morning
and she hasn't made her bed yet she'll fal
on the bed but il the bed is nicely mad
she'll fall ON the carpet so as to not muss tn
bed; if the fainting dodge don't work an
YOU are still resolved to 60, she VOWS sh
hates you, and that she'll never speak to 20
again. and then, in order to prove the bi
20 terness of her hate, she goes off and pacA
YOUR haversack full of the danties and del
cacies of the season and then after al. q
u the very last moment she comes and throw
her arms around your neck, and whisper
that she loves you best Of all in the world
: and that she'll 'bc such good girl unit
YOU come back and that she'll take sue
good care of the children and that yo
. mustn't fret about her, and that she wi
write every blessed day. and that you mu
write as often as you can, and that she 'lov
YOU best, best and thousand other lit
messages for you. but all kind and lovin
-, and all told without tear-for she docs 4
CRY now until you are ont Of the house thu
when you are gone she weeps like show
.. bath for half an hour then suddenly stol
short, wipes her eyes, and doesn't waste al
other tear till she sees you again.
Tha 'ts the way they all do; and talk
to peacefully as You can, she is never satisf'
in her heart till she sees you in uniform.