The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-02-26

"a place for everything and everything
in its place" Yes, it is very easy Ia talk
so easy that we have not unfrequentIy
seel words absorb deeds entirely. Mr..
Green quotes The old proverb at you with
appalling distinctness when you have com
mltted the error of putting his slippers un-
der the wrong corner of the sofa; but when
you are turning the whole house upside
down after the book that he has lost, you
would imagine there wasn't such a thing
as proverb in the createl world
Now, this is hardly even-handed Justice,
Fair play is only reasonable, even if you
do happen TO be woman! Why should
Mr. Green thi' k himself privileged to grum-
ble at the disorder of the room where you
have amused cross children, cut down big
trowsers into little ones, patched, mended,
and darnei all day long, and then look
surprised and prosecuted because you OBJ
Ject to his tossing his newspaper into on"
corner, and his hat into another, and his
booqack into a third. No. it is NOT fair !!
There is time for all things That's
what Mr.. Green says when you hint that
you Won d ike little relaxation in the
way of theater, opera, or concert-or when
you ask him, meekly, when he is going to
put a drop of oil on the creakihg hinges of
the parlor door, or sharpen the dull carving
knife. Is there? Well, then, when is the
time coming for that iaunt to the CatSkills
that Las been promised YOU ever since you
can remember! When is the time coming
for the reaiing aloud of newspapers and in
teresting. EXTRACTS from spicy books? When
is the time coming for him to set plants
and shrubs in the deserted garden, instead
Of smoking an evening cigar on the font
balcony with his heels considerably higher
than his head!
"Sl!ks and satins put out the kitchen
fire." MIR. Green thinks you can make the
old gray popIin answer very well for year
or TWO longer. It's old fashioned and shah
hy, and Mr.. Green wonders why his wife
can't look little m re like other PEOPLE"
1t is II approl riate to wear on many occa-
slons, and the impractcabe Geen don't see
why you are not ready to go out with him
when be asks you. Women never ARE
ready" lfsilks and satins put out the
kitchen fire, what is the relative effect ofI
broadc!oth and cashmere, patent leather
boots and diamond rings?
Take care Of the cents, and the dollars
will take care of themselves" "Be little
more economical in your shopping, my
dear. T"enty-rwo cents a yard for calico. |
when saw very decent on the Bowery
for eighteen. | call THAT extravagant.
-Four cents yard is worth saving" And III
YOU were to try until doomsday, YOU could
not persuade my lori autocrlt that twenty
two cent calico is actually cheaper for little
frocks and sleeved aprons than the elegant
article he saw on the Bowerv. But as for
wearing any thing else than the highest
priced hats, or denying himself two pair of
KID glovesper monlh--"My dear, you don't
understand these things. A man MUST 90
well dressed d0wh town."
Now, you see, you cant say anything in
self-defence, becaUs- Mr.. Green says "a con
tertious woman is like continual drop
ping on very rainy day." You cln only
sh t your mouth and crowd back the re-
he lous answers, and wish in your secret
heart that all the proverbs your husband
has SO ready at his tongues end We're not SO
very applicable to one 81 lie of the question
What are all the antique old word desicca-
tions good for if they won't work both
ways? You never hal nice little plan
yet, but Mr.. Greer cut its tender head off
with one of these merciIess packages of
wisdom; and you are Almost tempted to
wish that poor Richard had n ever been born.
and that Solomon had died before he went
into the prOyerb business
1t is hard to endure; but then, after all. /
it's rather consolation to BE- able to tell
your troubles in print. You wonder what
Green will say when he reads this article
Of course, though, he will never suspect ii
is he. Men never know themselves in
such very faithful looking laSs-morz'S
the pity !-Amerjcan Psychological Jour-
nal.