Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-21
How Mrs caudle Got Her Money.

I'm always wanting money for clothes !
How can you lie in your bed and say thae
Tn sure there's no children in the world that
cost their father SO little but that's it, the less
poor woman does upon the less she may
It's the wives who don't care where the money
comes from who'r re best thought or: Oh, II
nv time was to come over again, would mend
and stitch, and make the things 60 so tar as l
have done? No, that l wouldn't. Yes, as it,
very well for you to- lie there and laugh; its
easy to laugh, Caudle--very easy--to people
who don't feel. -.
Now, Caudle, dear! What man You are !
know you'll give INC the money, because,
after Ill, II think you love your children, and
like to see em well dressed. It's only natural
that father should. Eh, Caudle, eh? . Now
you shan't go to sleep till youv We told me-
How much money do I want? Why, let me
see, love. There's Caroline, and Jane, and
Susannah, aud Mary Aune, and-What do
you say? | needn't count 'enl, you know how
many there are! Hal that's just as you take
me up. Wen, how much money will it take?
Let me see. and don't. 60 to sleep. LII tell
you in minute. Yov always love to see the
dear things like; new pins. know that,
Caude; and though | say it-bless their little
hearts-they do creditto you, Caudle. ANY
nobleman OF the land might be proud OF en-.
Now don't swear at noblemen of the land, and
ask NE what they've to do with your children.
You know what 1 meant. But you are so
hastg, Caudc.
How much Now, don't be i'll 4 hurry!--
Well, think, with good pmching.-and you
know, Candle there never a Wife who can
pinch closer than can-L think, with pinch
ing, can do with twenty pounds. What did
YOU say? Twenty fiddle. sticks? What? You
won't give halt the money? Very we'll, Mr..
Caudle, don't care; !; let the children 90 in
rags; let the children go in rags; let them stop
from church and grow up like heathens and
cannibals, and then you'll save your money,
and, suppose. be. satisfied You gave me
twenty pounds FIVE months ago? What's five
months ago to do with now? Besides, what |
have had has nothing to do withlt.! asa9I1
What do you say ?sbTen pounds are enough4
Yes. lust like you men; you think Things
cost nothing for women but you don care
how much you lay out upon yourself. Ihey
onlv want bonnets and frocks? How do you
know what they want? How should man
know apy thing about it? And you won't
eive more, than ten pounds2 Very we'll
Then YOU may; 90 shopping with it yourself
and see what you II make Of it. LII have none
of YOUR ten pounds, i can tell you. No, sir,
no: YOU have no cause to say that 81 don {
want to dress the children up like countesses
You often fling that in my teeth, you do but
YOU know it's false, Candle, you know it. |
only want to give 'em proper notions OF them
selves; and what, indeed, can Che poor things
think when they see the Brlggses, ana the
Browns, and the Smiths--and their fathers
don't make the money you DO, Caudle 1le when
they see them as fine tulips. Why, they
mnst think themselves nobody; and to think
vonrself acknowledgement upon 1T, Caude-
;cn't the way to make the world think anything
of you. ,u, ,:,1;o1. ;, !
that? Where do you think? L know great
deal more than you suppose-yes, though you
don't give me credit for it. Husbands seldom
do. However, the twenty pounds l will have,
five any-or not tarthlng.
No, sir, no. don't want. to dress up the
children like. peacocks and parrots 8 | only
want to make 'em respectable and-What 40
you say You'll give fifteen pounds? No,
Caudle, no-not a penny will | take under
twenty: if did, it would seem as if | wanted to
waste Your money, and I'm sure, when | come
to think of it, twenty pounds will hardly do.
Still if you'll give me twenty--no, it's no use
vour Offering fifteen, and wanting to go to
sIeep,-you sha'n't, close an eye until you
promise the twenty Come Caudle love! !
twenty, and then you may got sleep. Twenty
twenty "' " ,,
INV impression is, writes Caudle, "that |
fes] asleep sticking firmly to the fifteen; but
in the morning Mrs. Caudle assured me, as a
woman of honor, that size wouldn't let me
wink an eye before [ promised the twenty;
and man is frail- and woman is strong-she
had the money 44 ,-.w