The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-30
How She Earned the Nancy.
BY MRs. JULIA A. CARNEY.

Sally. You know very well ] cannot al
ford it. Almost ten dollars for a cluthe!
wringer. Why, it's enough to be pesteret
all the time for money to buy new clOthe.
to wiring. Your mother and grandmother
managed to wiring the clothes with theil
own industrious hands. They wasn't SO
afraid of uscing their hands in those days
I "But husband" here uterposcd the
wife, taking advantage of the lull in the
storm of indignation, 'it is not question oI
hands mainly, although niue are sady
blistered by wringug hard aud heavy
clothes. A wripger costs but nine dollars,
the very best of them, while some are much
cheaper, and they will save the clothing
that much in a short time"
'Humph, who says so p grunted the far
mer, from his cloud of tobacco smoke.
Every one who uses them replied Mrs
Brown. They do not wear the clothes as
the twisting OF the hand-wringing always
does, and ihe wriDger leaves thcm so much
dricr, that they do not freeze SO hard Oh
the line, consequently they are not broken
in slight wind. Besides they dry SO much
quicker, which often saves being beaten
about by stormes."
Some agent has been telling you fine
story with which to bamboosle me out Of
uine dollars You seem to have learned it
all By heart, too
4 have seen no agent replied the wife,
with scarcely repressed Indignation Mrs.
Jones has used wringer for years, and
she says it saves her half the labor of wash
ing, besides the wear aud tear oftbe Clothes
We'll, [ wish Mrs. Jones had held her
tongue. You women are always setting
each other to teasing us poor men out Of
every moments peace, and every cent OF
money. you had the money to earn, it
would be quite a different story~
81 think, Mr.. Brown, tLat when I did
have the money to carn,' never had so
much difficulty in getting enough of it to
keep myself decently clothed, and I had
the tools to do it with, provided by my
employers without so much grumbiug'
well, well, don't want to hear another
word about it and with this,---a man S
last resort when the argument is all against
him-he puffed away at his old pipe, more
vigorously than ever.
Mrs Browns mind was in high state
of Indignation. More than this. She was
decidedly vrathy. She sat patching,
growing every moment more disgusted with
her own folly, with marrying a widower
who only wanted smart woman TO keep
the house in order, cook for the hired man
and mend the boys clothes,
Cheaper was it not, than to hire wo-
man to do 1t and it is lamentable state
Of things, that in this country, at least,it is
great deal easier. Thousands Of girls that
would have been offended at the yer,
thought Of doing house-work for living,
with good wages and plenty of leasure,
would have married the well-to-do Mr.
Brown With his farm, and horses and his
large house even with his rough, noisy
boys, and his awkward, unframed girls, as
an offset.
Mrs. Brown sat selent thinking. Her
husband was thinking also. 1'm glad she
takes it so easy 'twon't do to let woman
have her own way about spending money.
Always thought before, Sally was a little
set in her way. She gin up this Lotion,
mighty quick, this time, though
Mrs. Brown was not one of the many
women, who speak everything right straight
out, just as they happen to feel.
Rejoice, Oh ye husbands who have
wives who scold when things go wrong. 1t
is the pent up feelings like the groans and
cries of one in pain, and the best surgeons
say they are necessary relief to the ner-
vous system. A woman who receives your
unkind refusal in silence, and with calm
ness, does not do it because she has given
up the poin, but because she sdetermined
to have her own way, insPite of your Iefu-
sal.
Listen to Mrs. Baowns thoughts: This
grand mothers industrious hand, forsooth
Wonder if she scrubbed, and washed, and
ironed and baked, and mened for crowd
Of wild creatures like his children who
having succeeded in wearing out their Owl