Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06
Migratory Husbands.
ny SUSAN sNAPP.

I never had one of them, thank heaven
but l know they must be dreadful these
heads of families VINO are forever popping
up in new localities, with "Loi III
build here. Here's rising bit OF prop
erty!" or, "This old cottage I'll renovatt
clap on wing and piazza, live in u
six months, and sell out at a bargain
Then those husbands who are forever
shifting their business from place to place
now to q village-aow to q city-now
to the backwoods: delightful time mus,
their wives have Of Ill Never mind how
faithful, devoted and enterprising a wo'
man may be, it's great trial tor her 10
be continually pulling up stakes, and tear
ing away home-tendrils, even If her mi
gratory spouse ia in other respects the
best in the world. I'd like to zee the per.
son who would tell me that wouldn't &c
with John ii he decided to set up a soda.
fountain in the desert OF Sahara. No
I'd go but I'd suffer in the going, though
l told my woes not even to old Cbeops
himself. But what II, instead OF one grand
move, he fitted about like grasshopperf
What if he tried Bloomfield, and Flat
bush, and Woodside, and Harlem, and q
dozen other places, from the coming ci
the first nursery tooth to the going away
of the last nursery measles, WhA: il he
dipped the children into twenty schools,
filed every April air with mourntal fare.
wells to ali our neighbors, and kept the
parlor carpets in perpetual spasm Of
contraction and expansionY Would be
the blessed, happy woman that / amy
Wouldn't be thin, weary and heart sore,
and the children, morally, just little waits
made Of the shreds and patches of many
villagess Certainly. Established SMILES
are all very well but your oaks don't hop
about. They stand still and give the
clinging vines q chance to take root be-
side them.
Only yesterday, while shopping in town,
/ CHANGED TO fnd myself IN q street car
beside man and stout woman engaged
in earnest conversation. His was thin,
flushed face, with restless eyes and lips
that ask "Whyi' "Who?" "Where 2"
even when they were silent. Hers Yves
soft, fieshy, massive, and it's little eyes
were full Of temporary affability and in
terest. He evidently was speaking of some
recent bereavement, while the lady lean
ing toward him wore q sort Of wash Of
deep feeling which was mot Q dye"
suouEA Az SovC ACA u AuU VI 5yAlpobhy
quite proper In q street car. Presently
caught the words:
"She was indeed. You lost treasure
when you lost her"
Eyes, and a wonderful creature for
moving about" pursued the man with
deep feeling. sit didn't make any differ
ence you could take that woman and set
her doson onychersP
His eyes filed with tears, and / looked
out Of the window-sorry for his cake,
but glad that the angels had taken at least
ono poor woman away from . migratory
hushAnd.
The country abounds with these nstu.
rallied Bed0uins. I say nothing against
men who 60 North, South, East, or West,
and settle. They are the nerves Of the
body polite, and indispensable to our
new civilization. But DO feel impelled
TO quote mothers fAvorite expression, and
whisper TO hundreds Of men almost with,
in hearing distance at this moment: ~
stay put" For the sake Of wives, hot
children, yourselves, take root somewhe&
Help TO build up In America the besutifsl
homestead feeling 70 common TO Eu4
peans and almost unknown 70 "a. n
your very saplinss understand that In
time they are TO shade your Great-sTeat
grand children.-H6agtA end Homs.