Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-25

she finished, she looked up with still
shade of sadness upon her brow.
''There, Frank, / have mended your coat
thoroughly. Iguess 1T win last another
year now.p ~ slss4.1r .,s., 4,
"Quite job, wasn't it longer than /
thought" said he, deprecating1y.
show much clear cash have you made
to-day, Franks" asked Lizzie, in very
earnest tone. a 2 = a'eft9H8 :
what do you want to know that for ?p
was his answer. 81 7ol. rNl,sT -.
"For my own satisfaction; certainly, /
should feel an interest in all of your af-
fairs '-'
"well, I think the shop has cleared
"How much do you count you own SER
vices worth ~ RI sr 49, ~ &.s.
mot less than five dollars day. ..,
How many hours do you labor 2"
"Ten is the legal time nowadays. /
don't generally work that many. But
what are all these questions fol-? n aaa =
Because, Frank, we are husband and
wife. We expect to live the rest of our
lives together, and if there is harmony in
our marriage relation, there must be Justice
and right. You may call me daily to APP
preciate anything you can do. You have
earned five dollars to-day; and the shop
has cleared twenty. Yet to save you one
dollar, / worked ten hours on your coat,
and six on your breakfast, dinner and sup
per, and making your home pleasant and
comfortable. ase gfias7 7saanr so
To save you that dollar, have had to
hurry all day, to put all my work out of
my line, and to really neglect our darling
boy, who should be our first care, and the
last thing under any circumstances, to be
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~ had not thought of that.n
81 know you had not, Frank, so shall
freely forgive you, but / must insist that
hereafter may be allowed to be my own
Judge of what work Ihad best do, and shall
not expect to be threatened, nor hear my
self accused of not being willing to do my
duty" -9i9f 1oR
Frank felt the force of her words and sat
silent. oIa VI ~ .sI E.s s.aa14 o-ss
"One thing more, Frank. want to say
while am about it, that don't want to
hear you talking about supporting your
| wife. / will not be supported while ] am
| able to support myself find on looking
over my books, that the profits of my la.
| Dor amount to five dollars week, and the
board of yourself, myself, and the baby be-
side. Then / do all your extra work and
my own. All this saving has gone into
| your capital to be invested, and to helT
you make your twenty dollars day. Out
of this comes the five dollars you call the
worth of your days, work, while / must
labor with weary limbs and aching head
and eyes to save you one dollar, in mend
| ing an old coat, which when done, would
not sell for the amount of your ten hours
| work"
"You are making out pretty strong
case against me, Lizzie.n
| mo, Frank, not a case against you
could not do that but am stating facts
One thing more. / have been at work
three hours since supper, and you have
been entirely idle, not even rocking the
cradle, which have been obliged to dc
half dozen times.n 1919, -
| Lizzie, don't say another word, and I'll
never do so again. said Frank, springins
from his chair, to jog the cradle, where
the baby was nesting. ''You shall never
mend another coat
| Eyes, but 1 will" answered Lizzie, ad
vancing to the cradle, .'only don't tell mt
| ten hours work can be done in five mimi
ties, nor ask me to let the baby squal
again" .tNHtf f"F"" HPHa
She lifted Walter from the cradle They
stopped to kiss his fair, rosy cheek bu
made mistake, and kissed each other
while Frank whispered
'God bless you, Lizzie, ] never though o.
all this before. / won't do it again"
Six years have passed by, and Frank has
kept his word.