Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-01-26

Il h4uuI lIdb lley HOIluk, rom ulSclOS
ing, even to a husband. Men, lif com
PEELED to tell how they spend every cen
that passes through their hands woulc
be very far from wishing their petty in
dulgencies to be known; then why is j
50 few husbands grant this trifing Iber
ty, to their wives?
Jennie felt keenly this lack of gener
osity on the part of Doctor Claiborne
and chafed under it.
While a dependant on her uncle.
bounty she had never known a time thai
she was entirely, without pocket money
and it CALLED her impetuous spirit, whe1
she saw her husband, (as was his Gus.
toni every night, before retiring count
his money over, and cOmplaeently re-
turn it to his pocket, without seeming tc
| be conscious of her presence.
She could easily for Doctor Claiborne
was a sound sleeper have slipped the
money from its resting place and appro-
priated portion Of it, (asI have known
many women, similarly situated do but
her proud nature scorned to take that
which was so pertinaciOusly withheld,
the truth was, it was the seeming indif
ference Of her husband that wounded
her, more than the want of money.
Could Doctor Claiborne only have un-
derstoOd his wayward little wife, how
mach anguish both would have been
spared.
1t was a cold, damp day in the begin
ing Of Spring. Doctor Claiborne turned
from the village post Office with the
weekly paper in his hand. "At the door
of his shop he stopped, but finding the
fire in his stove, low he thought he might
venture to his dwelling, and there read
the news, numOlested. No such gratifi-
cation however, awaited him. He found
his fair Jennie with a frOwn upon her
brow, the hearth unswept, and the fire
like the lantern at the burial of Sir John
Moore) 9dimly burning"
In spite of these draw backs he seated
himself and commenced reading, but
had scarcely concluded the first para
graph when Mrs. @. interrupted him,
with: ''There is nobody in the wide
world who sees as much trouble as I dop
She gave the babys arm such a jerk that
terrified at its mothers violence, the lit
tie thing screamed, at the top Of its
voice.
"Jenniep' said Doctor Claiborne, inn
patiently, Il wish you would quiet that
child!"
'Its wonderful easy for you to set
there and wish, Doctor ClaiboFnel sup
pose you Try to keep him quiet while,
and I'll warrant you'll change your tune !
Men think they can perform such Won
ders %
whats the use Of flying in a pet be-
cause / asked you to quiet the child q?
You are too impulsive. I have been try
ing to read the Presidents message for
an hour, and cannot understand a word
for your cIamor."
"That is not sou-quiellly returned |
Jennie, "fOr you have not been in the
house fifteen minutes.
at doesn't matter, fifteen minutes or
an hour, know you have kept up such /
an internal fuss that could not UNDER
stand a word of the Pres''-
'Nodoubt''-interrupted Mrs. C. fthe /
President would be greatly distressed if
he was aware of the momentous fact
that Doctor Claiborne has been so dis
turbed. Suppose you write him a list of
your grievances" he may take pity on
you, and appoint you to some foreign
mission where the clamor Of your wife.
and the finfeTnal fuss,U she keeps UP /
would never reach you"
"I would write fast enough, if hop
ed such a result, but I know Jennie that
it is a mothers duty to make her chill
lren behave properly. I am sorry to
iay, on this pointand many others, you
ire sadly deficient"
"And I am "sorry to say" that it
would be more dignffed in you to attend
o your own business. You have no
more right to interfere with my domes-
ic concerns than have to go in your
,ffice and roll out pills. I believe men
hink it is something smart to interfere
With household arrangements"
"Where a man furnishes means to keep
Up his household, he has the right to ,
peak''- h
20 exclaimed Jennie, "there it
5 again, always throwing up my pow
rty."
'Jennie! you are incorrigible. You I
now meant no such insinuatiOn, I !
My said you We're deficient in MAJ
81 know" again interrupted Mrs. c.
he tears rising into her bright eyes s
There 10as time you did not consider !
ne deficient in anythingp' {
Perhaps I did not know you, as well f
$ I now do"
Doctor Claiborne cast a sidel6ng half G
glance athis weeping wife. S
why did you marry me-without''- .
Twas perhaps, interposed the Doc a
II as the lawyers say, "moved and in b
lgated by the devil! v
'This is 6ea'fJWlanguage to be sure,n a
3torted Jennie, thoroughly provoked h
Y his manner, doctor Claiborne, I h
fought when I married you that you r.
ere at least, a gentleman" She burst e
ito passionate fit of weeping G.
aWhy my dear''-said Doctor CIai- n
,rne, moved by her distress. eYou are d
ally simple. One to hear you talk
ould suppose you had some real troub- b
y "Of course ! goa don't think it Toub-
you never reflect upon the thousand b.
rplexities that hourly beset me. A g,
3tful child to nurse, a good for nothing b.
ok, ahouse scarcely big enough to turn al
ouHd in, a particular husband to please, n
.e who holds me accountable for every hi
ing that goes wrong, about the premi- IL
s-oh 600 I wish had never been cC
IN ~ di
And are you not accountable? 1 buy h'
ings and expect you to take care of
EN-, and talk of perplexities I bJ
We enough, heaven knows, when I ca
me home to keep me in an i'll humor, hl
ly yesterday 1 found one of the tea to
wells trampled in the mud by the kitch- W
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