Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-01-21
| From Tsurslay's Commercial
WHAT SHALL I DO AB0UT IT.?


Mn EDIToR:-I am married. Being so,
nattt a,is. have ,vifo. Not unnaturally,
have several children of varying ages.
The question is partly concerning them,
and partly concerning their mother.
She is an ardent admircr of Miss Anna
Dickinson. She heard her lecture the other
night, and ever since has been possessed
with mighty desire to entcrupon "a strug-
gle for life
It is her great grief that she does not have
money enough.
am working upon salary, and only a
certain p rtipn of it-not u large sum ad
nit --cln bc devoted to the purchase of the
indispensable feminine things"
Entirely unable to keep up with the style
and display OF her richer neighbors, my wife
is, inevitably, aggravated. May be per-
miitel 10 say that not the ncighbors, but l,
suffer in consequence?
The most recent development in the case
is my wiie's resolution, firmly announced
and doubtless firmly held, to leave her home
and 90 forth into the wide, wide world, con-
quering and to conquer. She has no fears
but that in the great race OF life she can carry
off IA first class prize. She can earn far more,
she says than can afford to give her In
my house, she asserts, she is but a servant,
and her noble soul reyolts at the drudgery
OF making beds, sweeping rooms, washing,
dressing and combing little children.
Pardon me, Mr.. Editor but in the days
Were they happy ?-whcn was bachelor,
l. myself, have swept room, and crawled
night after night into bed oil my own
making Since entered upon the en-
chanted state OF malrimony, | have on
many a morning helped round, little arms
through the iniricacies Of skirt-bodics and
waists, and dress sleeves, and coaxed chubby
little feet through the labyrinths of stock
-''"av little faces have
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'a'' " sup "''" ".'''' '"' s'''e', '''ic
80 .'s - ,'SS "''"' 10y i"Sois
"' l '''""S'' ~ S''h's'' part as couiu
"'a'eNe'
'"'n s'".Ii '" hno" soihc'iing aoou'
w ~ ""'es' WHICH, III 'ho Presehs uay' are
.'p''s '"'o' as s' na',"s''is anu 81 -un"or-
W '''''' """ 'o'''a'. "o""n"oou' II
'N ~ o"''s ~ NY "o"nnes' y. sp"", my
:" ~ " ''o sao"'''o neis"'s nun
Mi''''' 'he 'e'ha,c icc'uferS Oh the present
uN' ana 'hcif aiscipes, look down. But
Gu h'' hAu 'lat all my time was taken up
py .hese ma'u'hai a'tcntions to helpless lit
t'' ohes' nor 90 consiuer 'hat my MANHOOD
suffered, III me uayS OF my single blessed
NESS "ecausc mauo Tue necessary arrange
'hon'' '"f uecen'y anu comfort III my own
apartment
nu' 7a'an Jane "'ys sue Is drudge' aho
'"e' "'r "op'c sp'lit shrlhks from thls servi-
'uue ." she oeciares she VIII leave tht
e"iureh WIN me- ana go out TO seek
career lor hefsf"' iha' she may not say
nave hlhuerea hcr IN her walk TO glory'
nave gwen my consent. Some line morning
we VIII all accompany her TO the train-t
"ecplhs procsssioh-aha wave our tear
soaheo nahukeichieis In passionate iare
MVh We VIII return 10 our melahchol
hoiie' whhc shc VIII DC porhe WIN hght
h'"s,cApfcss speea 10 inc scene ei nef III
'uIe liiu"phs.
What VIII she DO What can she do
w h"' ''''hk she Is genius. 40 no
na'oNe she can ieap a' once INTO posi'iol
,'Ne Ai'ss i'1chlnsoh :. one mas Talents as
'ue'"'v n',os', a',',, p"' 30 haq 'nc ia'o ia
,,eN'e' N,.s' ''0' e"'"'' '""o "'o
1 N"'.' ., -
n"p' ~ -" - - " s'o. ~
N"o"s no'uins VI any pusiness wna'e'ei
anu 'aoio are pieh.y oi young girls "h'
""'o n"' son'o 'ia'iins us s"ics"oihoh wiz
"ic now vain'y seekins SITUATIONS.
nevertheless, .. D. may ihu pace. on
WIN pc oohseo 'hen 10 30 every morning
ho' Or coiu'tain OF shine' ana take her STAN
oen'"u counter In close ana dusty stor
wnh ,"e sihe'i Oh oye-s'uns exnailng irof
'ac phes Vi soous' anu inc ight OF heave