Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-21

filling the Presidential chair, and she mis-
tress of the White House, as Horace Gree
lev. al, N" and other well-known phil
losophers who had aspired to that exalted
station.
What a waking up it must have been
when she discovered what sort OF man
the greatest philosopher in the world real
lv was. and what an improbable lire of
business he pursued! As a classic though
practical Greek remarked, it was "all talk
and no cider" 1t might have been most
excellent philosophy that he gave the peo-
pie, winning much applause, but it rarely
brought bread.
If, overcoming his repugnance to any
action that would appear mercenary, he
allowed his hat to be passed around after
one of his philosophic bursts in the market
place, some one invariably ran off with
the collection, besides stealing his hat. He
| lectured Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions for nothing and found himself, and
travelled around the country on foot at his
own expense, organizing schools in phi
| losophy, thereby seriously impalrlng Lis
entire philosophical apparatus.
She found that philosophers were gener-
| ally out of money when rent became due,
and only prepared to respond to calls from
| his butcher and baker with sage and philo-
sophical maxims and disquisitions, Clean
clothes they were sublimely Indifferent to,
and they never were regular to their
meals.
No use to get up a good dinner for
| Socrates, as no one could tell when he
would be at home to eat it. He washed
very rarely, and let his hair grow long,
greatly to the disgust of Xantippe, who
was a neat woman herself. So much
wrapped up was he in philasop that he
would only halt dress himself in the
morning, and he appeared ON The street so
often in his stocking feet that the boys
dubbed him "Old Soc"
He would come to his house at late
hour of the night, bringing lot of brother
philosophers with him, and want Nantippe
4 to get up and cook them a supper. Or
such occasions she would tell Socrates tC
feed them some of his philosophy and lei
them digest that.
What wonder that the life she was com
PEELED to lead resulted in rendering Nan
tippe peevish and cross. 1t would SOU
the sweetest disposition in the world, mos
assuredly. Had she lived in our day sh'
might have found an outlet for her i'll
humor, as numerous testy and petulent fe
} males now do, on the rostrum; but Wo
mans Rights were unknown in Aantippe'
| GlQ0, 80 SIG NGubtO Gil uSl Sp1CCh liz
husband. She would have applied for
divorce but, alas for the disappointed an
ill matched ones of that period, Chicag
was not then discovered.
,, She began to make it very warm for hiI
: whenever he came home, and scoldeC
fretted and fumed day and night. She d.
, clared if she were to marry again, and ha
. to choose between a natural philosophe
: and natural born fool, she would take th
fool, sure!
1t is not recorded, believe, who mad
the hemlock tea which Socrates was con
! PEELED by his judges to drink as punisl
: ment for setting shiftless example befol
the Athenian youth, but suspect it ws
: : Xantippe herself, and l can imagine th
! cheerful alacrity with which she did
; The sublime philosophy which sustaine
him as he drank the poison was doubtlel
: equaled by the heroic resignation wit
> which Xantippe saw him depart.-Cinci'
:, natl Times.