The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-02-23
From Peterson's Magazine.
Ten Years Married.
BY MARY n. snYaouR.'

care you going to the lecture. Henry 2
| T said, as saw my husbsnl, one evening
putting on his overcast, aftcr tea. i"e
"Yes," was the reply. ;s'i1a!Ss
81 wish you would take NO." Lanswer
| ed. r,sa i 7aefe o3 fH 7.es
"Rea'ly, Mary. think hone is the prop
er place for a mother" 'ss@
"But one of nv sisters wpnll look alter
the children. do so want to hear this
great lecturer" ai .aa ~
''To tell the truth,t have bnt ono tick
et,' was thareplv. as he went out of the
door, "and don't think can afford to buy
another" rs. 81. s a-rq a-X1hs. a9F
MY husband and had been married 70,
several years. Before the, marriage he had
been unusually attentive, even for lover
and if another gentleman spoke to me, he
was jealous, When there was a lecture or
concert anywhere, he always took me. III
was invited to a party, he was only too glad
to attend me. But now "Parties are bore"
he says, "he can't think why women want
to go to them" Then. he wasFall Affection
Now he acts as If he would lower his dig
nifty TO show his love to me or my children
and if offer him kiss, or a caress, he is
almost certain to refuse me. cannot com.
plain that he neglects his more obvious do.
ties. He gives meplenty ofmoney for dress,
ives well, and is even talking of buying a
new house. But he seems to think that a
wife has no business with anything but
housekeeping, and never needs change OF
scene, or other recreation. .'What's the
use Of woman, he says, "going about p
Home is the place for her."
1t may he so, Int after hard day's work
| often feel as if a walk in the fresh air. OF
a visit to neighbor's. would bea real bless
ing. | SAID to him, the other evening, when
he was going out again,
"Won't ysu stay at home, Harry, tc
oblige me ? Just this once. | am so lone
lly"
"Louely.r' was his answer. "How can
you be lonely with the children ?"
''But they are abed And recoliect, SEE
nobody, day in and day out. Can'tyou d.
ito please me--for this once ~ con'd
hardly speak !; 1t was as much as I could d.
to keep the tears from coming; his corduc,
seemed sSeruel- =,
"The fact is" he replied, "Pm dead beat
with working all day, and must go on. tc
get frightened up a little. You women nev
er make allowances for a man." And be
went out quite GROSSLY. ~
Never make allowances IF the husband
is worried with business, andI do'not doubt
it, is not wife wo, ried with housekeeping
Are servants. and children, and sickness. nc
trouble And is a wcman differently con
sti'pted from man. so that the recreation,
which one considers indispensable for him
self, is Of no service to the other e1
"How your complexion has gone" said
my husband to me. the other day. "I
seems to me, that, in this climate, woman
old ut thirty" f~ 4oa..
/ Again the tears came into my eyesp .Har
ry did not mean to be pnkind; he was on },
thoughiless; but why bad lost my com
plexion9 Can woman i've forever, il
rooms heated by bot air, never going on
except on some errand, and then hurryinl
home as soon as tiSDeyrand is done, withop
losing her complexion? Is it the climate 20
her mode Of life. that makes her old before
her time9 1t was on my. tongue to say
these things; but refrained: have learn
ed that "silence is golden.'
"How I wish | had something TO read,
I said, Yesterday. 81 think. if had a nev
book nov and then, the evenings, when yo,
are out, Harry, would not be so long,
Books cost too much money, ip time
like these,' answered my hqs5aad. Z, g
should think your sewing would amuse yo
enough. To get bread fof his family an
lay by little for a rainy day, is as much q
prudent man can do, now a-days" And
. as he spoke, he lit his segaE and went out
Will men ever understand women Wi
they ever see their own selHshness in its tru
ilights These thoughts rose to nyamind; a
Iredected, with a sigh, that tithc of tn
money, which Harry spent onsegars, woul
, buy me all the new books I wished.
Yet Harry does not mean to be aakind
He saw his mother treated as he treats me
and he thinks l have no right to complain
. Perhaps | have not. But, oh how muc
7 happier would be if things were dfferen
j Are women only machines to sew, darr
sweeps dust, make bread. take care Of Chi
!. dren, and keep house? Have they once
) of recreations No higher nature, that
starved by lie like mine :. a7pg sias 4
There is contention between Harry an
!. !. ma. But hts love now is. or seems n yer
d different thing from what it was before ma
. riage. Is my fate the fate of alig Is eve,
wife like me when TEN YEARS MARRIED?