The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-29
Migratory Husbands.
BY SUSAN SNAPP.

Inever had one of them. thank heaven.
but know they must be dreadful these
heads of families who are forever popping
up in new localities, with Lo! I'll
build here. Here's rising bit of prop
ertyi" or, "This old cottage I'll renovate
clap on wing and piazza, live in it
six months, and sell cut at 8 bargain"
Then those husbands who are forever
shifting their business from place to place
nov % ylllsge-nU~ W u viry ---
to the tsckwoods: delightful time must
their wives have of it! Never mind how
faithful, devoted and enterprising a wo-
man may be, it's great trial for her to
be continually pulling up stakes, and tear
ing away home-tendrils, even il her mi
gratory sDouse is in other respects the
best in the world. I'd like to see the per-
son who would tell me that wouldn't go
with John if he decided to set up soda
fountain in the desert Of Sahara. No.
I'd go but I'd suffer in the going, though
told my woes not even to old CheOps
himself But what If, instead OF one grand
move, he fitted about like q grasshOpper?
What if he tried Bloomfield, and Flat
bush, and Woodside, and Harlem, and q
dozen other places, from the coming OF
the first nursery tooth to the going away
of the last nursery measles? What II he
dipped the children into twenty schools,
filed every April air with mournful fare
wells to all our neighbors, and kept the
parlor carpets in a perpetual spasm or
contraction and expansion? Would be
the blessed, happy woman that l am?
Wouldn't be thin, weary and heart-sore,
and the children, morally, just little waits
made of the shreds and patches of many
villages. Certainly. Established SMILES
are all very well; but your oaks don't hop
about. They stand still and give the
clinging vines q chance to take root be-
side them.
Only yesterday, while shopping in town,
l CHANGED to find myself in street car
beside q man and stout woman engaged
in earnest conversation. His was a thin,
flushed face, with restless eyes and lips
that ask "Wby 2" "Who?' where p
even when they were silent. Hers was
soft, fieshy, massive, and its little eyes
were full of temporary affability and in
terest. He evidently was speaking OF some
recent bereavement, while the lady lean.
| ing toward him were sort OF wash O.
| deep feeling which was "not dye,
though it gave her hue Of sympathy
quite proper in street Car. Presently
caught the words:
"She was deed. You lost treasure
when you lost her,"
"Yes, and wonderful creature fol
moving about" pursued the man with
deep feeling. at didn't make any differ
ence you could take that woman and Sc
her doaon any,ohere!"
His eyes filled with tears, and l looked
out of the window-sorry for his sake
but glad that the angels had taken at leas
one poor woman away from migratory
husband. =
ralized Bedouins. I say nothing agains
men who 60 North, South, East, or West
and settle. They are the nerves of tn,
body polite, and indespeEsabl to oul
new civilization. But do feel impellet
10 quote mothers favoritc expression, ant
whisper to hundreds of men almost with
in hearing distance at this moment: "D'
stay put" For the sake of wives, home
children, yourselves, take root somewhere
Help to build up in America the beautifn
homestead feeling so common to Euro
peans and almost unknown to us. LIE
your very saplings understand that il
time they are to shade your great-great
grand children.-Hedrth and Home.