Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-08-25
Vol. 64.-32SO. No. a.

his internal decision.
Daisy" he said carolessly, when dinner
was over, I've asked old Mrs. Barberry 10
come and spend the day with you tomorrow"
"Oh, have you2 I'm sorry, for am en-
gagged cut tomorrow.
" You Where 27
oh, at Delmonico's. I've Joined Wo-
mau's Rights Club, and we meet there to or
ganizo."
The deuce take womans rights" ejacu.
lated the irate husband.
"Of course | don't believe in them, but it
is the fashion to belong to a club, and such
nice place to 20 evenings. I'm dull here
evenings, Herbert
Hcrberts heart smote him, but he answer
ed resolutely:
81 beg you give up this ridiculous idea.
What do women want Of clubs 2n
What men do | suppose"
But | don't approve of it at ALL"
" You belong to three clubs, Herbert"
That's altogether different"
but why is it difIerent2"
" llem-why2 because-of course any
body can see why--it is self-cvdent."
" must be very blind, said Mrs. Aims
court, demurely, "but | confess can't dis
criminate the difference
Herbert Ainscourt said no more, but he
did not 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 lie
never knew when he was certain of quiet
evening with her she joined not only the
club, but innumerable societies fer thousand
and one purposes, which took her away from
home almost continually Mr. Ainscourt
chaied against the bit, but it was useless.
Daisy always had an excuse to plead.
Presently her mother-n-law bore down
upon her, an austere old lady in black satin
and brown wig.
Daisy you are making my son wretched."
Am | 2n cried Daisy. Dear me, l
hadn't an idea Of it, What's the trouble 2"
You must ask himself" said the mother
in-law, who charlottesville old lady-in
young married folks settling their own diff
cuties IAN know is the bare fact"
So Daisy went home to the drawing-room,
where Herbert lay on the sofa pretending to
read.
whats the matter Herbert ?" said Daisy,
kneeling beside him, and putting her soft,
cool hands on his feyered brow.
"The matter2 Nothing, much, only am
miserable, he answered
But why ?" she asked.
" Because you are so changed, Daisy
How am | changed ?"
d" You are never at home you have lost
the domcstioity which was, in my eyes, your
greatest charm. | never have you to myself
any more Daisy, don't you see how it is en-
bittering my liie2"
Does it make you unhappy" she asked
him, softly.
You know that it does, Daisy"
And do you think liked it, Herbert ?"
"What do you mean ?" he asked
- mean that passed the first year of my
married life in just such lonesome way.
You had no domesticity" Clubs drives,
billiard playing, and champagne suppers, Gu
crossed your whole time. |, your wife pined
at home alone"
" But why didn't you tell me you were so
unhappy ?"
" Because you would have laughed at the
idea, called it a womans whim. | resolved,
when we were first married, to fritter away
neither time nor breath in idle complaints,
| have not complained; have simply follow
ed your example If it was not good one
whose fault was that2 Not mine, surely"
"No, Daisy, not yours"
don't ike this kind Of life" went on
Daisy, II is false excitement--a hollow
diversion but ! persist in it for the same
reason, | suppose, that you did-because it
was the fashion. Now tell me, Herbert,
whether you prefer fashionable wife, or
Daisy 2"
Daisy, thousand times I"
But Daisy can't get along with thea
tre-going club living husband"
Then she shall have husband who finds
his greatest happiness at his own hearthstone
whose wife is his dearest treasure--who has
tried the experience Of surface and finds it
unsatisfactory. Daisy's shall we begin our
matrimonial career anew 2"
And Dasie's answer was, " Yes"
But what must you have thought Of me
all this time ?" she asked him.
/" know what | think now"
And what is that}"
81 think, said Mr.. Ainscourt with en-
phasis that you are the best wife in the
world"