The mountain Democrat., 1863-12-19
JAYNEs,REsOLUTTON.
A STORY FOR WIVES,

l. WY uOu you ever CieAu your OOOtS
SSzlGS r - sEl-e lots ths house ? said EI-
len Jaynes to her husband. II had Just
nicely arranged She room, and settled
down to my sewing as you came in; now
there 1t Is all to do over again. Just look
at the dirt-from one end of the room to
the other, and, l suppose, it is the same
thing ia The hail. Oh, dear OBJ, dear (!
am 50 discouraged and tired out with
brushing =
And so am discouraged and tired out
with such continual fret-fretting every
time come into the house. Don't you
ever get tired Of scolding p was the pro.
voking response Of the gentleman.
1 do get tired Of speaking to you about
things which make me such a great trou-
BILE; and yet you never seem to mind them
at ALL
Speaking in the manner you do will
not have the effect of that you may be
assured
You are just so provoking as that; you
never seem to care how much | may 90
through! T..
Here the tears began to flow.
What confounded scene about few
tracks on the carpetP calculated the in
corrigible Mr.. Jaynes, with vigorous em.
phasis.
ITS not that alone. You know very
well, Charles that wouldn't mind it for
once; but it is so continually. You never
seem to care how hard you make me
work. 1t is the same in everything; and,
Charles, why won't you be little more
particular? Why need you make so much
work, when ! am trying SO hard to keep
things in order 2
The shower was fast becoming food
Mrs. Jaynes produced her handkerchief.
and began airesh.
oh, dear the trial Of living with such
a careless person! 1t would have been
so much better for me if had never met
youl'
But Charles had departed, shutting the
door with tremendous bang. leaving his
better half to have her cry out by herself;
and cry she did for time with all her
might, fully convinced that she was mis-.
cradle, unlucky, and unapprcciated of all
housckcepers then she began to think
what is the use Of all this nobody cares
about my tears; am only making myself
sick for nothing. So she bathcd her eyes
and brushed her carpets and resumed her
sewing. But she was not in an amiable
mood-not BY any means repcntant nor
forgiving, certainly not chcerful-I am
sorry to say, not even peaceful but very
much inclined TO let her grievances be
made manifest. Accordingly they were
hardly seated at the dinner table before
she commenced
Did you see Parker about that ward.
robe this morning, as requested 2
NO, hadn't the time, was the cncoura-
ging response.
Hadn't time You never have time to
attend to my wishes. You could have
found time if you had chosen. If you
cared straw for your wife, you would at
tend to her wishes little. Well. did you
90 to the stove store TO see about having
that stove cleaned ? II is almost impos-
sible to bake in it, as | have often told
you
No; l did not
For mercy's sake, Mr.. Jaynes, when will
you attend to itf'
Il can't say anything else wanted?'
Yes. Did you call at Lovelrs to see
about matching that oilcloth ?
No
yet | asked you to be sure and recol.
lect it, the last thing this morning. Was
there ever such careless man before p
| never saw anything like it,
Mr.. Jaynes continued his dinner in ap-
parent unconcern, and his wife relapsed
into silence. Just as he was leaving the
dining room she started new theme.
Charles, Mrs. Dutton has been in this
h. 1,
White Mountains next week. Why can.
not you take me off for a little journey
should like the change; l think it would
do me good
Take you n journey, after the compli-
mentary things you have said to me this
morning! shall be very likely to do so.
A pleasant trip should haver
That will do for an excuse; you never
do take me anywhere. There's the Dut-
tons have been away every summer; and
Mrs. Dutton says her husband would not
think of keeping her at home all summer.
She was surprised when told her that
had never been away from home week
at n time since | was married.
Very likely'-in tone of irony, and
Mr.. Jaynes left the ROOM. Y
Now Ellen Jayncs was not disappointed
in the least at the result of her applica-
ton. In fact she did not expect her hus-
band to grant her request, and it is doubt
full whether she would have gone had he
given his consent, for she well knew their
means would not allow such expensive in
dulgenceS, and Ellen was a prudent, eco
nomicnl wife. But she wanted to show
her husband what other men did for their
wives, and what he did not do.
Ellen Jaynes was a woman of good prin,
ciples and good feeling, though she had
an irritable, nervous temperament. In the
good old times, such were called cross :;
now, it is genteclly~ nervous We'll, Ell
len Jaynes was very nervous; she had
always great regard for tritles. and very
little power to adapt herself to circum-
stances. She had, too, vivid imagina-
ton, and having but limited opportunity
for studying her husbands character be.
fore marriage, she had invested him with
all possible excellcnce;-thought she had
found man to reverence, lean upon, look
up to in all things. or course she was
bitterly disappointed.
Charles Jaynes was a man Of good nat.
ural Abilities. and could render himself
very entertaining and agreeable when he
chose; but he had few of those domestic
qualities which make up the model hus.
band.
He was not tidy in his habits, was often
thoughtless and inconsiderate, and rather
selfishly fond of his own ease. Such .
character was the verV antipodeS of Ellen.