Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-03-18
Fer the Gazette.
MRS. PALMEK-AND 9TH ERs.

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Fer the Gazette.
MRS. PALyaIste-AND OTHERS.
BY EMMA MAY.
Mrs. Palmer is a much abused woman. al
least, she says so, and outsiders haven't tn.
means of understanding the 4" crooks and
turns which domestic life Is forced to dodge
Mr.. Palmer is an easy, good natured mar
who will never raise muss, or carry one
forward "got up" expressly for his benefit
Ten years they have to all intcnts and pnr.
poses travelled the same road but in reality
the off hand track has been followed by the
| wife. "There is no use in having a will
unless one can wilt do MS they please ~
says Mrs Palmer; and she secures to hc,
the qualification Of always opposing her hus
band. &c.,.
Somebody once said to me "I don't care
how ug'ytcmpercd woman may be If shell
only talk--but the iates deliver me from 4
moping, moody and sulen wife. Better have
ten thousand earthquakes shaking up a
"mnss" at once, than live with a woman
who has a tongue and won't use it," l
agreed with That somebody then, but didn't
know Mrs. Palmer
| Sho is very ami&blo woman to the world
in general; bn, her "man' is the victim of
nj! her ups and downs" twice twenty four
times in as many hours. She AYERS that il
was her luck to be cheated when she got
married-as y she was The only daughter of
Eve who ever plunged into such slough -
It isn't satisfactorily settled in my mind ho,o
a for'orn, deceived wife may conduct, and do
it properly. Her way is always Ae way in
out door as well as domestic affairs and Mr..
! Palmer cannot express al honest conviction
| without hearing hat-"it wasn't so yhor |
was brought up-Mr. Jones didn't do tha,
way when lived in BogAwn-it may be SO
now, but don't believe it." Mrs. Palmer
objects to all objections, and every assertion.
She owns the premises and proper,y--o orders
where the beans shall be planted and the
tnrnips be put in-how many rows oc pota-
toes shall "go around" the corufeld-and
when the fences shall be put up or torn
down; and closes every sentence with the
consoling, thoughtful remark that IL she bad
"only married John Barker, or Ben Ames--
lItte Lion, and Hiram, and Mary, and su,
san would have stood chance to have gone
up in the world.
With Miss Opbelia" Mrs. Palmer dcspis
es "shiftlessness" in all its forms and phases,
and thinks the most shifIess of all things is
to read when one rests, or smoke after din.
ner. She isn't wise, nor loving, nor kind ;
but just keeps up such storm Of comments
so whitening that an uninterested listener
shrinks into ''smaller than what he was :"
while the husband so!aces himself with his
| pipe, and seems not TO dwindle into any
lesser insignihcancs than of old.
My sympathics are as matter oi course
usually with the weaker side of the house
| though my procliyi;ics side with the nc
knowledgcd head Of the establishment Just
so far as Il is wise and right for him to rule.
A true woman would be ashamed to call that
man her husband that hadn't sense sufficient
to make his own bargains wiahou. an affirm
atory nod or nudge from his wife. 1t is
proper enough for a man to consult his "bet
ter half :" with regard to all matters about
which sensible woman might proye the
wiser of the two; but mans mcekness
shows his fool,shness to an astonishing ex.
tent il he will submit always to be led tho
all the cutters and pleasure grounds of this
| life.
After TIC have once learned to walk, VIC
sccrn assistance, and had much rather topple
and fall Gf We are only out Of sight of the
crowd than to be seen holding fast to fem
mines dress skirt
"Mr. Palmer is afraid Of his wife" How
charming such words must sound to any
woman who is conscious that her husband
fears her presence or absence! A clever mar
is worth mint Of money; but n my opin
ion, mans cleyerness counts for naught i
he is bound to be good whether his wifi
lends a helping hand or not. DO rot dag
imps and night imps gather around ane
trouble mans dreams he chances Il
dream--with the broomstick raised over hi,
head, and a woman's shrill voice shrckinI
into his ear?
wonder il a strong minded woman
ever rem .mbers how in tn. oldcn days sh
assured her lover That there was happiness
in the thongh Of being beloved, there wa
satisfaction in the knowledge that hercaf,c
she was to be guided as well as guard
ed-to know no viii but the will Of dsa,
/ Charley"
How strangely fckle women arel To day
they bow before one shrine, and to morrow
they viii knccl to their own image. and seen
to ignore the past with I'll its beautiful prom
ises. They choose to feed upon the hukkl
I of Life rathss than vAfklar ar, ihs uGoH acat 3