The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-11-25
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THE RIGHT KIND OF A WIFE
"Then it is decided?"

"Then it is decided?"
eyes, mother, l have proposed
and been accepted"
"We must be reconciled, then
suppose! But really, Howard, your
brother and l look upon it as g
great misfortune; you could have
done so much better than to marry
a poor girl like her. Not that she
lacks beauty. style, or accomplish.
ments; but those distressing rela-
tives will ever be a skele 5on to our
house, and she looked complacent-
Iy around the elegant apartment,
where wealth had done its utmost
to claim its possessors entitled to
the front rank in the world offash-
ion.
The room was large, and the cell
ing very high; the carpet was Of the
finest texture, and Of a pattern OF
which velvet buds seemed bursting
into bloom, and flowers almost
promised perfume if troddeD upor.
The chairs were of the latest pat
tern, and luxuriant as the most in
doleLt could desire, even the arms
being q little couch itse,f. The
walls farscoed, and the design the
same as the carpet. The lady, who
seemed but q part Of her surround
ings, was a handsome woman, with
whom time had dealt very daintily,
and who might have been supposed
an elder sister, instead of the moth
er of the fine-looking young man
she was now addressing.
My brother did not consult me
in the choice of a wife he replied.
a little bitterly, and l sometimes
wish he had chosen one little less
a istocratic, and whose family was
not quite so proud. Her expensive
habits, ii not checked, will yet en-
barrass us both. William sees it,
but the fear of her family keeps him
from remonstranee. She has al
ways been accustomed to such lux
uries, and how can 1 deprive her
of themY he pleaded with me when
[ asked him if he could not curtail
his expenses
Are you suffering endorsements
in pecuniary matters, my son?' ask
ed the startled lady.
Not at present; bat Williams
dividend was much smaller this year
han last, and the fact made me
cautious for him.
Mrs. Stuart hesitated a moment,
md then said:
Why not bring your bride home
% me? There is no need of two
establishments; the lady will not
object, sulely?'
The young man thought for an
Instant and then replied:
4 will, mother, If you promise to
orget that she is farmers daugh-
er, reared in the country, and al
Fays to remember that she is Mrs.
}layton's niece, and your sons
Eife!'
My son, you either forget to
7hom you are speaking, or l have
ost my self-respectp
Neither, mother, forgive me. 1
now you are a lady always; but the
cart 1 have won would be as deep
Y panied by cold politeness as an
ther would by open neglect
4 will treat your wife as a lady
hould be treated in my house, and
an promise nothing more until my
cart prompts it.
With this answer Howard Stuart
'as forced to be satisfied; and it
'as decided that suit of rooms
hould be fitted up for the young
ride in Mrs. Stuarts residence, she
eing a widow, and the dwelling be-
lg her own by the right ofdower.
No expense was spared, and the
partments were declared faultless
y even Mrs. Clayton, the future
aunt, who was admitted i
D have the most exquisite taste of
Il Mrs. Stuart's fashionable friends.
he rooms we're elegant, and the
lrniture of the most recherche
lyle.
And to those the fail bride came, 1
ith heart brimming with love and
appiness. She was the only child, /
nd had been loved and petted as
lch favored ones usually are. Her
Ither was a farmer frcm choice,
boring but little, and enjoying to
is capacity the care ofthe beauti-
Il acl es he called his own. He had
3ceived the collegiate education and
diploma for the practice Of medi- Il
ne. Buc his great, warm, loving I
cart, shrank from the vocation, and
aving abundance of means, he in
ssted it in broad acres; and finally !
uilt a handsome residence on his
and called it home. t
Here he brought delecate, refin-
| and beautiful woman as his wife, |
nd here Daisy as he would call his E
rst and only child, was born. {
She grew up a miracle Of beauty j
nd tenderness; the idol Of her par
Its, and delighting in the grand
d farm and its appurtenances al II
Ost as much as her father did.
1t was pleasant to see her of a
OF summer day, rambling over the |
rounds, with her hand in her IA
ler's and followed by nearly every I
limal on the farm, not restrained {
fences and exhibiting almost hu-
an Jealousy by their ill-humor at |
lch other when favor was bestow {
/ by parent or child. Mr.. Dunton
ept no inferior stock, and it seem !
/, In some cases, as if the instinct i
his choicest kinds was as much {
lperior as the blood; and he valued
lem, not so much for what they a
ould oring in dollars and cents, as t
# their excellence over their kind.
e was "a practical farmer, and a /
cry wealthy one, and one of the
ost popular men, politically and
'cially, In the country. Dai Y re Il
med a little when she was obliged I
go out from her home, where she {
as beloved by all, to finish her ed {