The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-14

HORRIBLE HUSBdND.
A Cincinnati Merchant Refuse. To Pay his
Wife's shopping Biii-She Takes her Ouiv
Daughter and Seeks the Mansion Of her
Father.
From ns Cincinnati nn,e.

frOW he CuactnHuu fhlT.
The wife OF downtown merchant entered one
of our fashionable dry-goods stores on Fourth street
one day last week, and purchased n bin Of goods 20
the amount Of about one hundred dollars telling the
clerk TO send the bill to her husband at his place Of
business, and 1t would at once be cashed The
goods were put up according TO order and markei
Of the LADY 4, The cashiers desk about the payment
ofthe bill, he was somewhat surprised 70 see n i'm.
mediately sent around 70 the store Of the merchant
before the order was given for sending home the
goods. The said merchant. on having the bin pre-
sented to him, declined its payment on the ground
that he had not ordered tSe goods. nor had he au-
thorized any one else to purchase them.
or courye, under these circumstances. the goods
were not sent. The nsxt day the lady made second
visit TO The dry-Foods store to ascertain why her
goods had not been delivered. She MAS very polite
" Informed that the goods rot sent in eouse-
Of the bill. VITA an indignant and @ortned look
she turned about and walked out OF the store in
much greater haste than when she entered It, Then
ste Immediately sought her husband, whose plsce
of business Was not over square or two from toe
great dry-goods mart and on confronting him dc.
sired 70 know why he had insulted her by refusing
TO pa The bill Of Ter purchase. simply. msdsn 81
replied the merchant because do not propose to
be made bankrupt by tie extravagaLoes Of any
woman"
Then. sir" answered the now cnraled wife, " |
wish you TO distinctly understand that am not to
be mortified and acanda'izcd bv any misery man -
and with This the pcuthg and charrincd lady left
Lis presence With look of vence that fore
BODIED no good to The man who had pGt his veto on
her extravagances
The enraged beauty on arriving home INN chiaie.
iy had her trunks parked, and aiter ordering her
carriage, had pireed thereon the Aforesaid trunks
pnd then taking her only chlld-a dau N or OF ten
years entered tho vehicle, and WIS driven 90 her
fathers mansion, where she nov rsnnins, deter.
mir cd again to set foot In the house OF q us-
band who had 80 deeply wounded her pr e. lie
husband Is terribly cut at the rash sion his " life
las taken. and is deenly agonzed to think that his
young daughter. whom he so dcvotedy idolizet, has
also deserted him at her mothers desire. lie has
offered all s1tis of ovcrtures to his ifr to re nru
with lis daughter. bnl has even consented tn give
her carte G"ac7e TO purchase when, where, aud
what she plelses.
Tie wife still romans firm TO her resolve never to
again cross his threshold aud the daughter has also
declared she viii never leave her MA How the NJ
lair VIII terminate We are unable to decide. The
wife's father Is rich, aud stubborn "a his daugh.
ter snd II she Is content to dissolve her alliance
with her husband, he will second her IN rts TO any
extent One thing l. plainS evident the ofendn.
husband will have 10 bend his knees IN humility 10.
lore c can ever nope to effect roconcl,ton with
lis wife, " hear once more the merry laugh Of his
wiDsome daughter