Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-09-21

"'i 'e" ~ 'ShSSb upon u tiloSt StTaUSe anu
prominent weakness of human nature as
developed in our sex. For instance, OBJ.
serve that young man who is just now set
Ting his bill at the desk. lie looks like n
mechanic; and should say, from his man.
ner, and from the fact tha. he feels it his
duty to go home at this hour, that he has a
wife and children. see by his face that
he is kind-hearted and generous. aud 1
should Judge tha: he meant TO do about rs
near right as he can. lie has been beat
en-, and he pays one dollar and forty cents
for the recreation of some two hours dura-
ton. If you obeerve, you will see that he
pays it freely, and pockets the loss with a
smile. Happy facility! But how do you
suppose it is in that young mans home
Suppose his wife had como 10 Kim this
morning and asked him for dollar to
spend for some trifling thing-some house
hold ornament, or some bit of jewelry for
the adornment Of her person. ,-and suppose
his littlo child had put in plea for forty
cents to buy paper dolls ard picture.books
with, what do you think would have boen
the result2 What do you think he would
have answered? OF fifty men just like
him would not fve-and-forty have declar.
ed that they bad not the money to spare
for any euch purposes And, moreover,
they would have said so, feeling that they
were telling the truth. Am not right p
Upon my SOUL responded the man who
understood billiards, you speak to the
point. know that young man who has
just paid his bill, and you have not mis-
Judged bin in single particular. And,
what is more, I happen to have a fact at
hand to illustrate your charge. We have
a club for an excellent literary paper ir
our village, and last year that young man
was one of the subscribers. This year he
felt obliged to discontinue it. His wife
was very anxious to take it for it had be-
come genial companion to her in her leis-
ure moments; but he could not afford it.
The club-rate was one dollar and fifty
cents per year
Aye-aud SO it goes,' said the other
gentleman. well that mans wife may
at this very moment be wishing that she
had her paper to read, he is paying almost
its full price for year for what? And
yet see how smiling lie. does it. All these
poor sympathizing wivesl How many
clouds darken upon them from the brows
of their husbands when they ask for triAing
sums OF money, and how grudgingly the
mite is handed over when it is given. What
perfect floods of joy might that dollar and
forty cents have poured upon the children
of the unsuccessful billiard-player. Ah
it is we'll for such wives and children that
they do not know whero al the money
goes! ..2
The game had finished at the nearest
liable; the two gentlemen moved on; and
Albert Landman arose from his seat and
lott the ball. Never before had he such
thoughts as now possessed him. He had
never dwelt upon the same grouping of
ideas. That very morning bis own true,
faithful, loving wife had been sad and heart
sick because he had harshly and unkindly
met her request for small sum Of money.
And his sweet Lizzie had crept away to her
home almost broken-heared for the want
Of a simple toy such as her mates posses
aed. And yet the sum of both their
wants amounted not 10 so much as he had
paid away that evening for billiard-play-
ing.
Albert Landman wanted to be an hon
est husband and father, and The lesson was
not lost upon him. On his way home be
stopped at Mr.. Grants and purchased the
best and prettiest hoop to be found, with
driving; stick painted red and white and
blue, and in the morning, when be bsheld
his childs delight and had received her
grateful, ,:hnppy kiss che question came to
bis hind-Which was the best and hap;
pieat fssnlt--this, or the five games ii bil-
liardsf The hoop 4 % cost thirty es-.
de cond play two games less stI biIlisrds,
and be the abaoluts gamer Of. ten cent? byl
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