Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-11-05

"I must be very blind" said Mrs
Ainscourt, demurely. but l confess
I can't discriminate the essential
difference"
Herbert Ainscourt said no more.
but he did not all relish the change
that had lately come over the spirit
of Daisy's dream.
She did change, somehow. She
went out driving. here, there, and
everywhere. He never knew when
he was certain of quiet evening
with her; she joined not only thu
club, but innumerable societies for a
thousand and one purposes, which
took her away from home almost
continually. Mr.. Ainscourt chaffed
against the bit. but it was useless
Daisy always had an cx.use to
plead.
Presently her mother in law bore
down upon her. an auStere old lady
in black satin and a chestnut brown
wig.
Daisy, you are making my son
wretched."
Am ?" cried Daisy. "Dear
me, | hadn't an idea Of it! What S
the trouble -
You must ask himself" said the
mother in law, who believed-sen-
sible old lady--in young married
peoples settling their own difficult
ties. "All l know is the bare fact :"
So Daisy went home to the draw
ing-room. where Herbert lay on th-
sofa pretending to read, but in real
ity brooding over his troubles.
whats the matter, Herbert p
said Daisy, kneeling on the floor be
side him, and putting her soft, cooi
hands on his fevered brow.
The matter = Nothing much on
ly am miserable" he sullenly an
swered. T.
> But why p she persisted.
Because you are changed, Daisy
How am l changed -
"You are never at home, you have
lost the domesticity which was, in
my eyes your greatest charm. l
never have you to myself anv
more, Daisy don't you see now this
is embitterine my life 7"
docs it make you unhappy ?"
she asked softly.
'.Yon know that it does, Daisy :"
"And do you suppose | like it.
Herbert =
What do you mean p he asked
Il mean that l pass the first year
of my life in just such lonesome
way. You had no 'domesticity'-
Clubs, drives, billiard playing, and
champagne suppers engrossed your
whole time. 1, your wife, pinned
at h ome alone"
"But why didn'tyou tell me you
were unhappy p
Because you would have laugh
ed at the idea, and called it a wo-
mans whim. / resolved when we
were first married, to fritter away
neither time nor breath in idle com
plants. Ihave not complained;
have simply followed your example
If it vas not good one whose fault
was that? Not mine. surely"
mo. Daisy not yours"
Il don't like this kind of life,"
went on Daisy. 1t is false ex-
hollow diversion; but
persist in it for the same reason, |
suppose, that you did-because it
was the fashion. Now tell me, Her
bert, whether you prefer a fashiona-
BILE wife. or Daisy -
"Daisv- a thousand times Daisy
"But Daisy can't ct along with
a theatre going, club-living hus
band .
..Then she shall have a husband
who finds his greatest happiness at
his own hearth stone-whose wife
is his dearest treasure-who has
tried the experience of surface and
finds it unsatisfactory. Daisy shall
we begin our matrimonial career
anew p
And Daisy's whispered answer
was Yes"
But what must YOU have thought
of me all this time p she asked him
after little while.
Il know what / think now."
"And what is that ?
II think said MIR. Ainscourt,
with emphasis, THAT you are the
best wife inthe world"