The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-11-30
About acoltIing wives.

From Moores Rural New Yorker.
There have been a great many women
areadflllv abused In this world, ana am
Going TO have my say about 1t now, II never
open my mouth again, Sucn an evcriastins
f6-fo about scolding wives is enough to wear
ones PATIENCE out entirely. think it high
time the poor. abused souls were allowed 10
speak a word for themselves.
/ don't know why il is-Fm sure never
could imagine. for the life me--if a woman
chance to fret and worry little, II shoala
no forever set down against her in malice.
should lust like to know. and should Just
like to have YOU, Mr.. Editor, answer the
question, why she gets such deal more
credit for the frctting and the worrying than
for all the patience she does exercise, ana
all the other virtues she happens to possess
But this isn't so! =,
tell YOU. MIR. Editor, it is so. could
cite a score of cases 10 prove II. laAc
Socrates's wife. for instance. WAS c'el :,
moor woman more wickedly pronounced
AGAINST Socrates was very good man, ana
very wise. every historical body says, but
he had a scolding wife. Aantlppe was Il
perfect yirago. they time and again declare,
and the unfortunate philosopher was greatly
10 I've pitied. Now, this is mostlya great big
historical tib, | don't care who tells IT..
Socrates had not IL virago for wne-rnore
the pity. for he deserved one. de passed.
very wen for philosopher IN those DAYS
but ii the present time he Mouio DC WI
sid red little better than an idle loaier. he
didn't deserve n wife ut all. 4 more shift
less. thriftless, careless, goodior-nothing
never brought sorrow to woman's heart.
He went about in Athens from pillar TO post
continually, doing nothing, ana was Il pull
losophcr lust because he was TOO conSlliIl-
matcly shiftless to be anything else. "hen
\ man don't and won't provide for woman,
what is she to do, I'd like to know? When
he never brings Il scrap into the mouse LOT
her TO do with, and invites his friends nome
to dinner repeatedly, with not morsel IN
the lardcr for her to make dinner out OF,
is she to blame for finding fault! L put IL
to your honor, Mr.. Editor, is 1t to be Won
dered at if, in such circumstances, she says
some pretty sharp things! But that's just
the way always. Socrates's improVldence
won his wife the reputation of q common
scold, and to-day every woman VINO asserts
her domestic rights is clasSed by mankind
in the same rank with Xantippe.
pity the wives of literary men, II every
literary man is like Socrates and his Name
sake, Mr.. Tippy. never know when MIR.
Tippy may bring two or three friends home
to dinner Or, if he happens to say when
he goes out in the morning, Mrs. Tippy,
ming" it is probably when the flour is all
out. and not baking on hand, and the
butchers and groccr's bills are unpaid, and
not a cent of money is in the house. And
if ! call after him to tell him so, he just goes
right on, as though he had cotton i'll his
ears. and never hears word. Then, you
see, when he comes in with MIR. Scrbendus,
the dinner is not up to his taste. and after
Mr.. Scribendus goes away the dear man be-
gins to find fault. 1t is 'Mrs. Tppy, |
really wish you would put forth little
more effort to please my friends when they
come: and Mrs. Tippy, don't see why
YOU cannot once in while set Il dish before
my friend ScribenduS that is fit to eat"
And the worst Of all is that when begin to
let him know who is to blame, he goes to
taking off his boots with 4 very injured air,
indeed-very much as | suppose Socrates of
old would have done, if he had Worn any,
and tries to choke me ofby saying, "There,
there, Mrs. Tippy, don't scold."
Now. Mr.. Editor, is not all this dread
fully provoking! Can you not come to the
defence of >colding wives, or say some bcne-
fetal word to the careless and typical So
crates Of to-day:
Yours, but never Scoldingly,
Y. ANN T1PPy.