Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-27

how you regard thewhole matter. He would be grieved and amazed, but you would nev. CT be subjected to tiis trial again.
 'She shook her head sorrowfully. a3a
 a"Once lin my more impetuous and younger days-I refused to touch the vile stuff I gained at such cost; told him l would starve in rags rather than ever ask him for another penny. He was astonish made me pick the money up. and bade me never be so unkind and irrational again. '"Sound advice,' commented I.
 z" You think ought not to tell these things she said quickly. You are right. But you have been like sister to me fol so long, and James is your own cousin ables until 1t seems that brain and heart will burst unless seek counsel and sym pathy from some true friend. am not ungrateful to James. Ny lot is far prefer able to that of most women. I am ac- quainted with several -harum- -scarum, in. sensitive, and not over-Ioving wives-who declare that they don't mind the ordeal o i asking for money. Thsy have a right tc their share, they say, and they mean td have it. If the men choose to worry, who cares? But the vast majority feel just as I do--unless they have private resources or regular allowance for household ex penses, clothing included, and-as the ad vertisenents say No questions asked. lady told me once, that, knowing hel husband to be very careless about keeping an account of such loose money as he car ried in his pockets, she had often abstract ed small sums while he slept
 And 1i1 ho r,nvar mise fl,on, 9 in or,iY ed I. mortified at the act less than at An nette's careless manner of mentioning it.
 Sometimes His wife said it amused her greatly to hear him say, in adding ur his weeks account, Eight or ten dollars short again. I must be more particular in noting every portion before it slips my memory. I'll put it down on the side ol profit and loss!' Since he took the deficit so philosophically, and grumbled so dole fully when she solicited the like sum, she was encouraged to repeE the experiment. I could not do that, although the lady speak of saw no harm init so long as sus. picion fell upon no one else She said she was only helping herself to what the law adiudged to be hers, and she was saved many uncomfortable scenes. But I tell you what I do, Salome. I never tell James
 
 by other means than petitioning him. will not give account of these. My broth CT Roger sends me twenty dollars in gold ed my treasure to James, and perhaps three I had done with it. Now, appropriate poor old Roger has neglected me. And 11n f11n xD1o fa was named, gave me check for hundred dollars on my birthday. 1 was unspeaka- bly, delicions-the feeling that might buy a book or ribbon, or 2 toy without hast ening the day of reckoning. We had sun shine in the house for q month-the house keeping money held out so we'll.
 ''' But did not this circumstance arouse his suspicious? He must know how long a certain sum had to last. s-a.
 "It is the belief of nine out of ten bu- ness men. .that the right conduct of house hold would require no money at all. Un. fortunately for their domestic peace, there never lived but one woman who understood the naodus operandi of making things last. That was the widow of Sarepta. I wish for Elijah every time scrape the bottom of the flour barrel, and discover that the butter is out. Money-or the wantsof 1t. is the root of four tifths of the trouble ID the world. You recoliect Rosalie Yarmouth. and her sad story? Her sister told me that MT. Yarmouth was so exceedingly penuri. Ous, that there was " scene" whenever Rosalie asked for money. She was pet ted child at home, and she rebelled at this treatment. After few years of unhappy wrangling, she applied for smaller sums and at longer intervals. Her husband be. lieved she was learning his pet lesson ol thrift, .. e., meanness, and even conde scended to commend her for the improve ment in her management. She dressed more handsomely than formerly; the table was well supplied, and yet he gave her on ly one-half the amount she used to asser was necessary. Finally, it all came out. needn't rehearse the tale; how she hao been living on another mans money. O. course everybody blamed her. She had { good home and rich husband. There wa! no excuse for her conduct. It was very wicked, very horrible, but his skirts were not clear. can imagine how she wa goaded into the evil way. Poor Rosaie Such pretty, bright, affectionate girl a she was!' @-
 MT. Garvay was loftily contemptuous o Mrs. Perry's grievances, incredulous as t. the cause of the tragedy Salome related upon her friends authority. I though Annette had more sense, more respect fo, herself and her husband, than to pedal, complaints of him through the communi ty, he said. James is not stingy or churl ish. Having known him from boyhood,
 may be excused for declining to believ' that his behaviour to his wife is positively brutal. It seems more probable, if yol will allow me the alternative, that she ha an erroneous idea of his ability to gratif, her whims, and is disposed to be more lay ish in her expenditures than his means vii justify. Women are apt to forget that while their horizon is the outer wall o 1 their home, man has to labor to provid, in a wider, more complicated sphere. Hel draught upon lis pocket is but one of , thousand, and there must be times wher the fount is so nearly exhausted that thu latest demand creates feeling of chagrir and irritation the wife mistakes for dis pleasure at her demand. You ald Annett, speak of the humiliation she and other experience in asking for money. What think you of mans sensations when ht is obliged to say No in these circumstan ces?' 04 G@.aalaeaA U
 'Candor.on both sides would extract tht sting from the predicament,' returned Sa lome. Any true-hearted woman would sympathize with his embarrassment, ant bow cheerfully to what she was assured WI. a nacassitv Rnt Iamas kPerrv apd o&I,a.<