The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-05
- VIZ AZ UNpERTAKEg.

E,eger--Wife whose Husband has
acknowledgements Under
er's Experience.
iron the New York SUM-
Oar ride with the undertaken came
B10u6 n this wise;
The undertaken undertook to I'M
lstake for friend of ours, and as he
s4a going from up town in carriage
"a q preliminary visit to Greenwood,
re offered to take us along as far as
ge should care to go with him or any
1r undertaken In the direction he 1
5ound-and we accepted the offer.
lad hardly got under way when
Undertaken pointed to an elegant
1sDwn stone no nsiOn and remarked:
Y0rr see that house there? Well,
Aau zae eatest job in that house
you eyer saw. They were twins
Girls-thir5een years old; lovely; died
If scarlet fever; both expired at the
aae moment; sentimental case
Do.u together and died together; i'm
3r siva lesson, very. Left the whole
ne; no limit on expenses;
lat'stla sort. [ did my best; got
nal designs great chance, you
7Ins, both In one coffin united
lie and united In death sentiment;
l.sf; lots of TIM and my taste and
r. arieaee. 1t was grand; handsome
szeis handsome profits; hand
ous thing all round.
B this time we had turned into
tb Avenue, and the undertaken,
u1Fog 10 a corner grocery of large
IInIoE Ems, said:
he man who keeps that grocery
Al p0fInu Cf ft1naYsai IF
Fas seven years ago, and his only
laughter. She was eighteen; engaged
C be married; lover In the city gov
sroment, and the father expected a
o8traot. But the girls death upset
very aing, and stealings included.
Il Tas q terrible blow, and the fune
was according; no expense spared;
company out in full force; big
hing.
8era the undertaken bowed to a
nan who passed US in a buggy,
Ial tlea said, By way of explanation:
luried his wife four months
ago. 81 ave been friends ever SINCE"
a few moments afterWard we
tucf ato Broadway, where it crosses
ne sixth Avenue, and az we passed
Twenty ninth Street. the undertaken
cast, and said:
7 once had big thing over there
Bich couple; hated one another; man
died; wife wanted to make big show
Of grief; sent for me; | saw the point;
made over 81, 900 clean cash on the
Oh. But the man was handsomely
brried. He couldn't have asked for
anything better if he'd known what
was Going on. True affection and
aeai heart grief are good for our pro-
fession; but after all. there's nothing
ike rich people that hate one another
or an undertaken"
How SOP" we asked.
" Why, it stands to reason and hu-
uru nature. Here's a couple that
have lots of money and misery. They
visa one another dead, and all at
off one of 'em goes. The others
Kind a frightened, and wants to show
grief, and having no grief to show,
falls back on nothing but show, and
depends on the undertaken to bring
ous the emblems of sorrow in stun.
ug style. Don't you see?"
We pretended not to see, and affec-
ted 70 disbelieve that such things
evsr occur IN real life, whereat the
auasrtaker waxed warm and ex
claimed.
But I tell you such cases are cou-
mon. asre, driver, turn down Fifth
Avenue. Come, I'll show you where
one of those very cases did occur.
You see that house there, just out Of
the avenue, in Twenty second Street?
Well, not many years ago a rich man
lived and died there. He and his
aiGs hated each other like pisen.
She had a lover. That always axes
matters worse for the family, but bet
ter for the undertaken. You see, the
more a woman's glad her husbands
dead, the more she'll pretend to be
sorry, and the more money she'll
spend. When that lady's husband
died there were bad whispers around,
but she smothered 'em all under the
mourning gear of the funeral. 1t
vas immensel l made-Well, no
matter. 1t won't do to be too par
ticular In these things. Evil COM
munications corrupt good manners,
ySu knoWl Ha. ha, hal"
How do these things go?" we
asfed, when wife dies, leaving al
snoeasalable husband with an outside
sweetheart to mourn her lossY'
That depends a good deal on the
man. Some men are such brutes, sc
coarse and gross, that they have nc
s2rtiment, nor any sense Of propriety
either. Such men are bad for US
They tumble their wives into the
grave without regard to appearance
But if the husband is sentimental
or seary, or q hypocrite, he comes
down handsomely to death, and give;
his wife 8 cordial burial. I've some
times thought that the presence O
the sweetheart at the funeral help
things along, as the husband would
naturally want her to see how hand
somely she'd be buried when her turI
come. but that may be merely m
fancy. But any how, said the under
taker, with a solemn emphasis, L tie
you there's wickedness In this town
How DO you like to bury publ
man, say an Alderman" we asked.
On, that's FOWL" answered th
undertaken, In a tone of DISCUS
"SalI.a he answered, IF you kno
your man, and the city governmeI
take hold to pay decent respect
tbe memory Of the distinguished dc
ceased. and all that, you can some
times make pretty good thing out {
ii. But, as a general thing, the cit
fellows grab everything, and don
leave an outsider even a nickle show.