Nebraska advertiser., 1869-09-02


Let gentlest words thy iips employ;
Scatter the seeIs of love and peace.
Aud reap 3 harvest fn1l 0f foy
Let truth make glad thy hazTassed soul
There ere no blessings Ia the bowl.
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The EXperEmce oE q Chicago
Lawyer.
Correspo poDdence a. me Mobile Register
II think I remarked in my last letter
that I once met a Chicago awyer who
warmly advocated marriage, and who
explained to rae his reason for SO dOs
ing. For such q man to advocate such
thing, was to say the least surpris-
ing, and listened with breathless
Interest while he gave me q brief his
tory Of his experience during the first
ten years Of his residence in that cele-
brated city.
Said he: at first came to Chicago
fifteen years ago. Then / was young
and innocent, which is hardly
necessary for me to say L am not at
present. ] had q friend living here
whom had known while he resided
IN New York and conducted himself
like q civilized man ia 3 civilized
community AS he had written to
visit himself and his wife, when I
came to Chicago, 4 remembered the
invitation when did visit that city,
and Immediately on my arrival pro-
ceeded to his house. He was not at
home at that moment, so I asked to
see his wife whom I had known only
ayear before In New York. In answer
10 my inquiry for Mrs. De Worse,
pretty, black-eyed girl came into
the drawing-roOm and received me
quite warmly.
"Well, we chatted very pleasantly
together until my friend came in, and
I really felt myself to feel q very affec-
tiOnate impulse toward her F.; supposing
Of course that she was his neice, or
bis cousin, or his uncle, or something
Of that sort. But in the course ofthe
evening asked whether his wife was
at home, and, if so, when he proposed
70 let me see her?
ITO my astonishuaenb he replied,
This lady IS Mrs. De Worse. i thought
you were already aware of the fact.
"Of course ] blushed, and felt hori-
bly, uncomfortable, and said that I
was not aware that he had lost poor
Emily.
On said he Emily is very well
and has married o partner of mine.
We were divorced, you know, about
six months ago, and I married my
present wife last week.
''Well 1 didn't feel quite 50 af1ec-
tionate toward her after that, for I
had been warmly attached to Emily !;
but we said no more about the matter
and went away, vOwing never to get
myself into such scrape again by
asking about anyb0dy's wife. I did
not see my friends new wife for about
q month afterwards, until one day ]
met her In the house of a mutual ac-
quaintanee, and, in the course Of con-
versation, said TO her, by the way,
might ask you to say to your huss
band that want him to come to my
Office some day next week
q don't think yo1 know my hus-
band she said smilingIy.
't'What do you mean2' said get
ting rather nervous.
s'tWhy, my new husband is named
Smith, she answered, II was seperat-
ed from bEr. DE Worse yesterday morn
Ing, and married Mr.. Smith last
night.
IT left thashouse pretty rapidly, and
registering a second VOW 70 the effect
that ] would never, to my dying day,
ask a Chicago lady about her husband
again.
''The two mistakes I had already
made, as 10 Chicago wives and hus-
bands, made me decidedly shy Of
them. But the very next day I went
into De-V0Tse's store (cOrn, pork and
provisiOnsl, and found him engaged
ia conversation with q terribly angu-
lar female, who looked like a conn
pound Of 3 New England old maid, 9
Western wonaan's rights lecture, and
an Arkansas squatter's wife. Of
course / pitied my friend, and, when
the terrible female had departed, re-
marked, Il congratulate you on your
escape; that horrible female would
have exhausted any man's patience
In ten moments conversation. What
was my horror when he replied, i
must beg you 10 speak more respect
fully of that lady; she is az present
nny wifea fact Of which you are, Of
course. unaware, rs we were married
last night.
III never said word, but fled abb
ruptlv from his presence. Once more
ii sw0re-and j went before a notary,
who had the biggest kind Of q Bibles
so as to make the oath more binding
that never. never would speak dis
paragingly Of any Chicago women to
any Chicago man. After that felt
better, and, for two weeks, avoided
making any more mistakes. AT the
end Of that time, however, 1 met the
new and angular Mrs. De Vonse, 70
whom I had, ia the meantime, been
introduced having the liveliest kind
OF q quarrel with q big, pTIze-hghung
looking fellow, who was apparently
on the point Of knocking her down.
OF course II few to her rescue, and de-
manded of the fellow what he meant ;
also, If he was aware who the lady
was, and who her husband was 10
which he bFie1y, sententiouslys but,
fas it struck me, irreverentiy remark
isI raid no further attention to him,
but. turning to Mrs. De Vorse, said
Madam permit me 70 protect you
from that rufIian'6 insolence.
t.Tnstead Of Thanking me, she actually
slapped my face and said: III teach
Won 70 interfere between nan and
wife. That's lnr husband, and we've
been married three days. It's 3 pref
tv hard thing II q wife can't stop II
The street To speak 20 her husband
without having some idiot come ano