Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-04-29

Your little wife. You cannot read her
thoughts, you arc not sufficiently verse,l
in woman nature, but me thinks even YOU
might mark the compressed lips, and SEQ
the occasional flash in The blue eve.
Mrs. Brown was moi orc of the MANY
women, who "speak every thing right
straight out, just as they happen to feel. "
Rejoice. Oh! We husbands! who have
wives who scold when things 90 wrong.
1t is the pent up feelings like the groans
and cries OF one in pain, and the best
surgeons say they are n necessary rclici
TO the nervous system. A woman who
receives your unkind refusal in silence,
and with camness, does not do il because
she has given up the point, but because
she is determined to have her own way,
in spite of your refusal.
Listen to Mrs. Browns thoughts This
grsndmother's industrious hands, forsooth
Wonder if she scrubbed and washed, ,Iand
ironcd, and baked, and mended for a
crowd OF wild creatures like his children I;
who. having succeeded in wearin;, out
their own mother, seem trying TO consign
me 10 n place by her side.
III we had the money TO earn, should
like to know if don't help to earn the
money Just rs much when am toiling
over that heated cook.stove, preparing
the food for the men and boys, A. if
were out in the pleasant fields, driving the
horses, or gathering and binding the
grain.
No money to spend Money enough
Tor farm implements. from the corn
planter. and the cultivator, to the mower,
the reaper, and the ,hrashing machine, of
nil sizes and of every price until the yard
is literally filled with them. And those
were all necessary. She really could not
see why. Her grandfather dug holes for
the corn with his Town industrious
hands. aud made the boys follow after
TO drop the corn and fill up the hills. In
those good old days they bent their backs
over the scythe ut the earliest peep OF
day, instead o: riding lazily along on n
moving machine,
"rli have that wringer if 90 ont
washing to pay for it," was her mental
dismissal of the subject. =, she put up
her sewing thu, evening.
1t seemed As ii Providence had intended
10 assist her in her resolutions.
Hardly was breakfast over the next
morning, and the menlolks out to work,
when a boy from the ncighboring town
came to the farm house door.
PLEASE, ma'am." said he, lean You
tell where oar folks can get girl to help
through harvest. Father told me TO take
the wagon and ride until found one.
He wants me to bring lie home with me
it it's possible. but have been trying two
or three days before, aud see no chance
lor u yet Every one is harvesting, and
all the girls arr busy everywhere go2"
"lIayc your folks wringer2"
Yes"
And a washing machine"
Yes. 4 first rate one, run i myself
every week"
"What kind of \ churn2"
"Oh, we don't wish the girl to DO the
churning, father says that i. too hard Tor
the womenfolks, so We take turns in
doing it, US men and boys.
"What wages d. you ply''
Father told me to offer three dollars a
week in harvest, and if found a good
one, he would pay four. D."
Well, will 30 with you, il mother is
willing"
This little deception WAS used in
ordcrto avoid the danger ofvillagc gossip.
Stepping into the next room, she wrote
\ brief note to h@r husband, stating, rs
men do sometimes in such notes, that she
WAS called away suddenly upon business,
and would return in about three weeks
Then packing n few necessary articles
int a small valise, she accompanied the
delighted boy to his home.
Great WAS farmer Browns astonish-
ment upon returning home to dinner, to
find upon the table, instead of the tempt
ing yiands, his wife's note.
1t was carefully kind, and he hadreally
nothing OF which to complain, but it was
appalling. Six hungry men aud boys.
Dinner time, and no dinner. Worse than
all. no wife 10 find fault with, for the de-
lay. The closets were ransaCked. and Il
hasty meal was the result; but as the
stove was stiff cold, they al thought they
had no dinner.
But why on airh didn't Sally write
me where she was going Perhaps some
of her folks are dead. Harvest time too.
How can we manage to get along.
Heavens and aiith where can get a
hired girl. Business. what can 4 woman
have TO call her away from home in
harvest. I'm afraid some OF those
Women's Rights wimmen has been talk
ing to Sally. Shes seemed very queer
lately"
1t would be useless to attempt to write