The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-09-19
CRUMBS OF ADVICE.
TO MARRIED LADIES WHOSE LORDS
ARE OUT LATE o'NIGIITs.


LADIEs:-I am aware of the fact of
there being husbands SO lost to all
sense of propriety, and so regardless
of the tender susccptibilitics of the
married female heart, that they stay
out late o'nights. My husband was
one Of that class He is now through
my system of training thoroughly re-
formed, tanned, subdued. He ack-
nowledgcs that he has no rights which
am bound to respect. He is as do
cile as lamb. a family man in every
sense of the word. f,tsa
This useful and not often ornament
al adjunct to every well regulated
household husbaEd-is q singular
being, strange in his ways, prone to go
astray, ready to oblige anybody else
rather than his wife, in the contemplate
ion of some snip of girl with light
gait, q tight gaitor, and bright eyes.
tHusbands-I am now speaking of
those who have grown callous in the
aonjugal harness are given to deceit.
What time they are not hobznobbipg
with boon companions in the rum-rook-
cries, they may be doing something
worse. There's no believing anything
| they say when they once get the upper
hands, and haye full swing with the
night latch-keys. Ont two-thirds of
the night, coming rccling home, or if
by chance, returning sober, they are
as cross and ill-grained as the very old
Satan.
Husbands have an inorlinate varie-
ty of excuses. will give you an ex-
ample: st s
When we were frat married my
husband could not have been more at
tentive. was accounted handsome,
plump and lively-a good figure; and
imagine even now ! have not altogeth-
er lost all trace of those charms so
powerful in causing men to make fools
of themselves.
The first three months of our mar
riage shall never forget. Henry was
at home every night. No rioting
around town; always punctul to tea;
often playfully insisting on our drink
ing tea out of the same cup; and oh
how loving and tender, "he kissed me,
and / seemed to walk on thrones" !
was in an elysium. With his arm
around me, and my head resting upon
his bosom-I sitting upon his lap-he
sitting in the high-back rocking-chair
in our snug, cosy parlor,-and the
blind closely drawn-Ah me! that
was bliss-heavcnly, enrapturing
enchanting! No night latch-kcy asked
for; no whiskey demijohn in the closet;
no registering, grinning, winking fel-
lows in to help drink it; no trying in
the morning, with trembling haud a@55
and oblivious intellect, to shave him,
SELF with q case-knifc or lather his
face with toothbrush. No breath
smelling like the atmosphere of beer
brewery, nor clothing rank with the
fumes of tobacco smoke, nor stained
with the wasted cocktails or the souI
of midnight orgic. l
As-timc passed OH his warmth de-
creased. /, fool like, as every young
girl green and gushing is, when she
gets full possession of that wonderful
ly and fearfully created animal, full
grown man, right to call him hus
4 band, rcdoublcd my exertions to recall
his honeymoon fondncss.f He accept
ed my kisses, my playful embraces, anc
my tenderness, as matter OF course
ate his breakfast as if he were batch
elor; put on his hat and walked off as
indifferent to the parting salute as i
he had never declared: "My darling
little pet, cannot live the day out
without your goo l-bye kiss resting OF
my lips.n' The great moustachc'
brute
When we wero first married, and IN
staid home o'nights, he never snored
lie slept as calm and quietly as sleep
the weary traveller after n long day
journey. But as he grew indifferent tt
me, as his absense from home of eve
nings become longer, he began to snore
When he learned it ! don't know
Louder and louder and more disgust
inr that abominable somnambuli'
: noise increased rs the months passet
on, until just before / reformed him
the awful sound became little less thar
series of spasmodic snorts, basso pro
faaao nasal shrieks, and vocal roars, q
: if his voice were being torn out by tn
: roots.
Despite all my efforts, my costly ar
ranged tea-table, the luscious titbits o
of the lnxuries of the season, WHICH
placed temptingly upon the snow.
, cloth, the beautifully embroidered slip
pcrs, and the dressing gown I,present
: cd him with ON our first Christina
/, day, he fell into strange ways, and o
) last came home continually in stat
G of beastly intoxication..
| At first he told me his absence wa
! caused by meetings at his lodge. II
? belonged to the Masons--so he sait
G I believed him then. But when tn
}, lodge got to holding protracted NEE
S ings every night, he coming home lool
: ing rs if he had been drawn through
). knot.holc, jaded, face flushed, and III
: steady as to gait, with card of Mis-
# Somebody in his coat-pocket-I bega
e to have my doubts about the lodg
It and so expressed myself. His only r.
Q ply was: "BIrs. -, there are moi
If lodges than one; / go to them all"
" Ills next lodges wcre-business, tai
q ing account of stock, overwork, heaS
IS orders to fll, had to go with counntt'
" customers.
+ Then came n new set of excus'
d Coroncr's jury--suddenly called as
e. witness; charitable meeting, waiting
it the wrong street for a car-and-=we
rs / couldn't name the lot of miscrab