Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-04-14
NO. 80.
Jbe Ga2ette all0 Gonlft.
[From Godey's Lady's Book.
HOW MR.. PRINCE MANAGED AIs WIPE.
What Mrs. ?. Theught Of Life Assurance.
ANOTHER DOMESTIC SKETCH.
By GERTRUDE HEIr.

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Wives require managing % we'll % hus-
bands. Nobody is perfect. Not even the9
| fair members Of the best half of creation
can be accounted uniformly wise, and frae
from all objections. That 10 the reason
(don't push it too far why the womenlI
| than the men. The poet writes thus-or
| something like it,
II to he. sharesome human errors fall,
Look on her face, and you forget them al.
| What is the use Of beauty, pray, il you
| may not presume little upon ita
| So Mrs. Prince, dear, good creature,
| the best Of wives (her husband says); and,
as a mother, unsurpassed cher children
think J, had her little inconvenient fail
| ings. To Mother Goose her goslings ars
| all cygnets. By the same rule, to the cyg-
| nets the mother is always swan. To the
| husband the wife is always the very beat
| wife-he has! And, to the wife, her hus-
band il the very best man-she owns Ii
| married people are sensible, they persuade
| themselves that they are the best suited
couple in the world. Adhering steadfastly
| TO the said opinion, they make q fact which
outsiders may suspect is only delusion.
| If a delusion. it is pleasant one; and fur
nishes the only comfortable lining for the
| matrimonial yoke, which has yet been
discovered.
Ia all quiet houses, there must DO con-
nubial managing on both sides. A scold
may carry her point by dint of clamor. A
tyrant of husband may accom- plish his
by downright violence. But this is not
management 1t is lamentable want of
management So q crafty woman, or q
willy man may be successful by underhand
subtlety or evasion; and the defeated party,
discovering the cheat, will be sulkily an
noyed, or furiously irate. Neither il this
management. The true way is not only
to effect your purpose, but to make it ap-
pear so obviously the best thing, that the
other side will concede that what you
have procured or promoted is precisely
what she or he desired.
Mrs. Prince WAS prudent woman. But
she was what our New England friends
call 'sset in her ways.n and what she did
not like, she would not like; and what she
did not understand she would not learn
unless she chdee. Present the thing to
her in the m ost luminous aspect, and she
maintained it was still opaque. Ndk, AZ
we have said, she was prudent woman.
She had no objection to insurance against
fire, in the abstract-but she would still
think the money paid was thrown away.
AS to Life Assuranee-but we will let the
incidents tell their own way. Harry Prince
was proud of his wife and his children.
He liked to see them becomingly al
tired; and he mould have his table we'll
furnished, for themselves, and for himself.
Mrs Prince was continually interposing
her veto, which was not always overridden,
Mrs. +. was constantly limiting at the me-
cessity of making provision for old age.
She was thinking, too, of the possibility
Of sickness or death. All these things
annoyed Harry Prince; and the more,
since he had made provision against the
calamity of her widowhood, and did not
dare to tell her. "If you should die, Har-
sometimes ask, when he persisted upon
an expense to which she demurred. And
chen he would shrug his shoulders and
say "Why, Sally, you must meet that
contingency when it arrives, since you
will not suffer me to provide against t.''
This was the nearest to q "tiff' that
they ever approached. To understand it,
we must 60 back little. Once on day,
Mr.. Prince and friend were comparing
notes, as all young married men will. $50,
young wives, be carefull But then you
all do the same thing, and you know it).
The particular turn which the conversa
ton took was on the question how, in the
event of the death of the husbands. their
wives would be able to meet the butfets Of
an unfriendly world. And the result Of
the con nference was that the two gentle
men took out Life Assurance Policies.
But" suggested the friend, fought We
not to consult our wives"
Yes" SAID Prince, latter we have per-
fected the arrangements beyond recall ,ex
cept by loss of the first years premiEm.
IN. B. Prince had been married the long
eet.)
And so, when the blanks were all filed,
and the queries answered, and the exam
ming physicians had given their opinions,
and Prince was pronounced. first rate
risk; and after the blicy, duly stamped,
sealed and certified was locked up in his
freproof, Mr.. Henry Prince took up his
way home, quite undecided how the facts
Of the proceeding were to be communi-
Gated.
"My DEAR" he said at tea time, "don't
You think it would be well for me to got
insured -
Six little pairs of eyes looked up in as
tonished inquiry. Six little ears were
ready, from mothers answer, to judge
what fathers getting insured could possi-
bly, mean. And one pair Of elder eyes
topic of con nyersation "before the chill
dren."
Before the childrsna What tyran-
nous abridgment of liberty of speech is
the existence Of those said children. We
were going to say in their presence, but in
our American households existence Of
children usually means presence, when
ever father is at home. Perhaps it is the
best custom but best or worst, the mode
usually is, that the children shall bo do
cidedly evident while the parents are
awake. The idea Of shelving them in
their cots at reasonable hour, and leav-
ing some little time undisturbed, is an
obsolete barbarity. Perhaps it may be
just as cruel to suffer them to lose their
natural rest, and to hang about till they
are too sleepy to be tolerahle. only
know that went into nightly seclusion
f6,aorsnu n esH nm E0rnrth PRUe.1