The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-02-03
Selrtt Storu.
A Story for Married People.

"llenry, wish you would give me
a dollar before you go"
"What do you want with dollar,
pray 7"
"lthink itquite enough to give an ac
count of the use | make of il after |
have spent it, without being called ON
to do SO before | have it in my posses
sion"
IL thought if you needed anything,
you could send by me-"
Yes, aud when | tell you, dcmur as
much about getting the required articles
as yon do at giving me the money"
"WeIl, what do you want :"
" want notions which / can better
get myself than send for. The walk to
the store would do me good. wanted
to make a few calls aud intended to do
so whilst | was out, but instead | must
make virtue Of necessity and giyeyou
Il list Of the several articles
After her husband had gone, Lottie
gave way to a flood Of tears she could
not repress But few years had
elapsed since her marriage with Henry
Curtis, aud he was her first love. Her
childhood had been happy one, and
all the love Of u passionate nature was
bestowed on him yet possessing
spirit that could not bear restraint, She
often shed tears of heartfelt grief
for it gall.d her proud spirit to know
that she must ask few shillings of her
husband, aud then perhaps, after the
humiliation, be sclusel, or as in the case
of the above conversation, be obliged to
submit her wants to his generosity.
In her home she had been bountifully
supplied with pocket money, aud conf.
dence enough placed in her ability to
spend it, without being questioned in
regard to the use she made of it. Now,
it was different.
No husband who truly loves his wife
will subject her 10 such an unpleasant
course. If she has any spirit she will
fret and chafe under the restraints on
her purse strings and, instead Of look.
ing up to him as generous, noble man.
mindful of her every want, she will be
apt to believe him mercenary and her
self u burden on his bounty. So she
must curb her desire, and will naturally
compare her present life with her past
one will grow dissatisfied aud hunger
and thirst after unattainablc pleasure
denied by one who should anticirate
her every desire
On this particular day, Lottie sat sad,
silent aud thoughtful for a long time
a'icr Henry had left. She thought of
her simple request denied, she brooded
over the Disappointment she felt in los
ing, through him, her anticipated pleas.
ure in walking out with her little ones.
aud of making her triAing purchases, all
OF which she knew he could have graft
fed had he thought of her happiness.
She scorned the meanness which actuat.
ed him she dcspised the sad loneliness
which surrounded her when he could
so at pleasure, She felt it to be an
insane ambition which prompted him to
deny her the comforts of judicious ex.
penditure, which his moderate income
would afford. 1t spoiled the holy quiet
OF domestic joys, for in the early twi-
light, when he returned, she could not
cordially meet and welcome him her
heart was full of disquietude and dis
content, aggravated and embittered BY
her mind, which had dwelt with aug.
menting bitterness upon the morning
refusal.
Henry handed his wife the thinhs he
had purchased, with the question,
Are these right ?"
She found them SO, but questioned
Why couldn't have got them ?"
" You acknowledge them right and
you have them you could not have done
more. Then, | got them for sixty.five
cents. You wanted dollar YOU
would have left it all at the store"
would have got nothing but what
l needed. Many times want to use
some thing | have not got and cannot
think to send for, when if | could 20 to
the store myself oncc in while. |
should see and get a supply of the
nameless necessaries which You know
nothing Of, and which am Obliged to
go without because l canno. think of
them till l need them"
" Well, when you do think of them
pencil them down aud / will get them
for you. Isn't that generous 2"
No, it is not. A generous husband
would not want his ,pif,a 70 ao,,,, ), L =: