The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-06
That Horrible chicago.

Interest while he gave me ptleI MS
toryof his experience during the hrst
ten years Of his residence In that cele'
brated city.
fifteen years ago. Then was young
and Innocent, which Il 10 hardly neees:
sary for me 10 say that am not at
present, / had friend living here,
whom had known while he resided
in New York, and conducted himself
like a cIyilIS0d man In y clviliEsd COM
munIty, As he had written to me 10
visit himself and his wife when ] came
10 Chicago, remembered the invita-.
ton when did visit that city, and i'm
naedIately on my rrrival proceeded to
his house. He was not ct home Just at
the moment, 30 l asked to sec his wife,
whom had known only year before |
In New York. In answer 10 my inquiry |
for Mrs. De worse, o pretty, black'eyed
girl came into the drawing room and
received me quite warmly.
well, We chatted very pleasantly TO.
gether until my friend came In. and l
really felt myself beginning TO expe'
rience q very affeotionate impulse to.
ward her, suppoBlng, OF course, that
she was his niece, or cousiuI or
something Of that sort. But 10 the
course OF the evening asked him
whether his wife was at home, and II
90, when he proposed TO let me see her
TO my astonlBhment, be replied,
This lady Is Mrs. De worse !! I thought
: you were already aware Of the fact
'of courge blushed and felt horribly
uncomfortable, and said that ! was not
aware that he had lost poor Emily.
"oh,' said be, Emily is very we'll,
and has married partner Of mine. We
! were divorced you know, about six
I months ago, and I married my present
, wife only last week.
WELT I didn't feel quite so Affection.
ate toward her after that, Or had been
3 warmly attached to Emily; but we said
| no more about the matter, and went
. away, voWing never TO get myself into
] such o scrape again by asking after
: anybody's wife. did not see my
0 friends new wife for about q month
, afterwards, until one day met her In
? the house Of mutual acquaintance, and
Q In the course OF conversation said 10
her: by the way, might ask you TO
J. say 10 your husband that want MIN
Q 10 come TO my Office some day next
i week.
= az don't think you know my nus
/ band,' she said, smilingly.
81 "What doyou mean ? said !, getting
d rather nervous.
y HWhy, nv new husband Is named
n Smith, she answered. i was separ'
10 ated from Mr.. De Worse yesterday
o, morning, and married Mr.. Smith last
Y: night
N i left that house pretty rapidly, ant
registered q second vow, 10 the ettec
az that would never, to my dying day
se ask . Chicago lady about her husband
ID again, The Two mistakes had alreAd!
90 made, as 10 Chicago wives and hus
ad bands, made me decidedly shy OF them
ey But the very next day I went into D
10. Vorse's store (corn, pork, and provia
X, ions), and found him engaged In con
r. versnion with terribly angular fe
lo' male. who looked like o compound c
n New England old maid, o Wester
dig Woman's right lecturer, and an Arkau
ed sas suuatter's wife. Ofe0urse pitle
ed nv friend, and, when the terrible Il
1is male retired, remarked, 4 congratula
ace you on your escape, that horrible +
ION male would have exhausted any man
1Ht patience In ten moments conversation
lp- What ives my horror when he replied
ly' i must beg you to speak more respec
vas fully OF that lady; she Is at present n
ee1 WIfe-R fact Of which you are. OF cours
lno unaware, as we were married very pl
ar: vately last night
put 4 never said word, but fed abruE
ne: " from his presnce. Once more l swo
ing land l went before q notary, who b
ise, the biggest kind OF Bible, 30 as
Mr.. make the oath more blnding-th
the never, never would speak dispara
1lm inKly OF any Chicago woman to al
no Chicago man. After that felt bett
Ns and for two weeks avoided maxi
cere TnSe howsveT mat the nav and 4
.. RulRr MrB. Worse, 10 whom had,
the meantitne, been introduced, hi
ing the lIvellest kind Of n quarrel W
q big, prizs=hghting looking fellC
who was apparently on the point
knocking her down. or course Il
nm, 10 her rescue and demanded TO know
',Ms the fellow what he meant; also II
". was aware who that lady was, and v
= 4" ,a her husband was? Towhlch he briei
~ ~ sententIously, but, as II struck me,
IN relevanuy remarked, He'll
Ill I paid no further. attention 10 h
. nai but turning 10 Mrs. De Worse, 8
- Madame! permit me 10 protect J
~ =, from that rnffian's tnsolence.'
~ Instead OF thanking me, she actu
n IN ~ slapped my face, and said:
~ II teach you to Interfere between II
ave- and wife. Thata my husband, {
M I've been married three days. II
mia. pretty hard thing II q wife can't stoE
fiftv the street TO speak 10 her husband "
i or out having some idiot come and mi
ann q musa about IT,
: the Now continued the lawyer, 'thi
. arc not only true story, but It Is
their example OF the continued trouble
over man gets into who lives in Chic
Iesst and doesn't know how to hold
,sSds tongue. You now understand iBl
20 in hate the Chicago customs, and vi
vIlia' 20 In for indissolubls marriages,
sest never made mistake In asking q q
Il ma about his wife the whole tlme1 II
'ks in Ia New York, but here have got
meas more awkward, places, and had n
Ian Of fights than can count, just becaus
ia wa man or woman stays married q
y too than q month at fuElheat.'
g 20 tha We drank weak lemonade toge
,seonie In solemn thoughtfulness, and pa
dorT from him, with the feeling that ba
thev It is 10 DO indissolubly connected !
an unpleasant mother .in.law, It 10
-,ouls. ter than to be constantly bothered
,Aes to change OF wife.
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