Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-03-15
rHE FR FITTING WIFE.
BIZ A LADY

why don't you ever clean your boots on
the scrsper, William p said Jane Lovett to
Der busbaDd. i had just made everything
nice and comfortable when you came in;
and now see the dirt wherever you've been
from one side OF the room to the other; it
must be just the same in the entries and
on the stair. Pm comp letely tired ont With
brushing and GUSHING
Fret! fret just so every time come
into the house = was William's soothing
RESPONSE. i should think your tongue
would get tired
4 do get tired of speaking to you about
thIDgs which make me 80 much trouble
ard yet you don't seem to mind them at
all
No; and 50 much speaking only makes
me mind the less'
That's just as amistle az Ynu are. Yru
never care how much have to e0 through
nor how much suffer Such an effort for
me TO get aIOngI Ny life seems a cantin
ual struggle. just for the sake of life,' and
here Jane began to cry.
What a fuss about q little dust On
the carpetr snapped the husband
mo. it's not merely that retorted the
wife, in q crying tone, but you never seem
to care how hard and trying things may be
for me. You care nothing for my pleasure
or ease. You know very we'll wouldn't
mind the carpet for once, bot IFS Just
so all the time end about everything.
The man who shook the carpets last week
said be never should have thought that
they we're taken up every year il he hadn't
been t,ld so, for he hadn't shaken such
dirty ones for four years. NV why should
our house be so much dirtier than other
peoples you know it's not my fault, 70: I'm
as particular as anybody
You've got new saddle for your hobby
and tbere'h be no end to your riding it.
| just because that old fellIw wanted to
make fool CT you, and get the job of
shaking your carpets twice year.
But, William said Jane, putting down
the handkerchief from her eyes. why won't
ysu be more careful? When try so hard
to get along and keep Thugs nice. you
Deedn'. make 80 much work Dear me ] to
have to live with such person! 1t would
have been better for Us both if We had new
err met 80
Hereupon the husband, William, depar-
ted, leaving Jane to cry it out alune. She
sobbed awhile quite heartily, and made
herself believe she was the most unappre-
ciated, unfortunate, and miserable of all
beings then. like good housewife, she
began to think, What good does all this
dot lam making myself sick for nothing
my eyes will feel go badly that can I
sew So she wisely rose and bathed them,
brushed the carpet, and sat down to her
peedlework. Butshs was not in q good
! mood, Tot repsrtant, nor fOrsiving, nOt even
psci6ed. 49, .g .aaa,.
She was in q little better mood when she
met her husband at dinner, but was quite
in the humOr to make demands, and let
Der grievances be made manifest The
carving was hardly ovsr, when she began:
! William, did you see about having the
stove cleaned and lined this morning?-
Bridget says she cannot cook with it any
longer as it is, and it makes her 90 cross
| that ] can hardly manage her, -..i
mo. hadn't time,' was the lacUnic
answer.
found time If you'd tried--I,ve DO idea you
ever thought Of it. If you cared anything
for other people, you'd think of them and
find time to see to things. You find time
| for your OWE matters 4atss1
You seem to know so much, Why do you
ask me2 Perhaps you'd better see to it
YOURSELF a.s fsos H,TsF rfel
What hadn't better dot do almost
everything now, yet yon never seem satis-
fed. suppose can 60 to the stove store
since you don't seem to be able to do any
| thing-I don't know but she'll have to &c
| TO the tailoF's vet, to order your clothes foi
| you, Well, INant to know you saw
Walker about those drawers, as have 81
often asked you to Z ] am in such need o
them. / don't know what to do. Every
thing is in confusion IN the closets
mo, didn't see Walker e. t.at
We'll, when will you ae
4 don't know
a.'Wll you everT a 4aea Ora
That don't know. Anything furtb
err 81 ra ha5e 3 rttas go sstlaGZs p.
yes. Did you gsts latch for Bridget
dOoryP frrl aee - 6a7
MOI esb ast5 q SIS os s. cess
Tlasked, zoe to be sure and rensember
: when you went away from breakfast ThI
! door is slam, slam the whole time.
never saw anybody like you. I Cam
get anything done, and IFS just so a
asys. es...sss S rs E.lEis5a y,ssl
Mr.. Lovett ate away az moved, and b
wife, not thinking of any other subject
{ complaint at that moment, finished Der di
ner 10 silence. ,st, 49, bese7as
= just ss Mr.. Lovett was leaving the sdiI
in ing room, she called out, .Willial0, AlbOl
Ppgs to night, can't JON take me to be-
her 70 $50. ~ ~ l..s.,-ss.s-
Ibase an epgagsDsut this evening
be answered, With HE hand upon Il
/ IFS the last night she sings. and,
haven't heard her, ssid Jane.
GTaar,sk hahn ik,f aa;dy Williarst