The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-10-26

A Young Married I.aAy's Letter 10 lier
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loves Y0USG DREAA.
Young Married I.ady's Letter 10 lier
Aunt.
The following choice bit of sarcasm, from
the Metropolitan Record, which purports to
have been written by young wife in New
York 10 her prim and spectacsed maiden
aunt in Boston, may, in truth. have been in
dicted by the latter lady herself, with
view 10 expose the absurd infaiuation with
which girl brides shut themselves up in the
delusion that their husbands are embodie-
men;s OF perfection. II the old lady did
write the document it was hardly fair of her
TO 60 and palm il OF on the innocence Of in.
experienced bridehood.
AN EXHAUSTED HUSBAND.
Ny DEAR AUNT: Although you told me
when invited you to my wedding, that i
was too young to marry, and not capable of
choosing mate for lie properly and with
due consideration, know that you may row
feel that was much wiser than you thought
In selecting dear Orlando have gained q
most afec,ionate and attent We husband, and
one who has neither a fault nor a vice
Heavens, What must girl suffer who
finds .herself united to dissipated person,
neglected Of her, and disposed to seek the So
| ciety OF unworthy persons, who drink,
smoke, and do all sorts OF dreadful things,
Thank Heaven, Orlando Is perfection.
To-day is my eighteenth birthday, and We
have been married a year. We keep house
now and / can make pretty good pie, only
he undercrust will be damp. However, l
think that must he the oven. Once ! put
peppermint in the pudding sauce instead of
lemon havoring; but then Orlando was try
ing 10 kiss Inc, right before the girl, who
didn't much like either of us going into the
kitchen at all.
The flowers are coming up beautifully in
the back garden. We sowed great many
seeds, but hardly expected so many plants.
| Among the most numerous is one variety
| with large leaf that scratches ones fin
| gers, and don't smell nice. | wonder what
it is. Orlando irightens NE by talking about
weeds; but seeds always come up, don't
| they?
Dear Orlando, / come back to him again
so excellent, temperate and clear. Tell
the girls 10 marry as soon as they can, il
| they can find husband like mine.
have but one trial-business takes him
SO much away from me. A lawyer must at
tend to business, you know; and sometimes
they carry on the cases until two ut night.
Often and often he has examined witnesses
until past twelve and come home perfectly
exhausted. And the nasty things will
smoke 80 tina, his coat quite smells of it.
And as it makes him as i'll as it does me, l
have to air it, and sprinkle cologne on the
lining before he dares put il on again.
had terrible right the other night
1 -rra,tfII hrtanin sAtl hot ht,,i,,,,,
i think be said il was a case of life and
as | usually did, with a book, and did moi
worry until about one o'clock. After that
| was a little anxious, / confess, and caught
a cold in my head peeping out the upstairs
window blinds; for, l heard a cab driving
up the street, anti saw it stop at our door;
then thought | should faint, for l was
sure some dreadful accident had happened to
| Orlando.
ran down 10 open the door, and Mr..
Smith, friend of Orlando's who is not. |
confess, very much to my taste-such red
faced, noisy man, was supporting my dear
boy up the steps.
.'Oh, what has happened?' cried l.
''Don't be frightened, Mrs. White" said
Mr.. Smith. Nothing at all, only Mr..
White is little exhausted. Application to
business will exhaust man, and thought
] would bring him home"
"All right, Belle" said Orlando. "Smith
! tells the truth-fm exhausted"
| And dearest aunt, he was go much so that
he spoke thick, and couldn't stand up with
out lettering. Mr.. Smith was kind enough
to help him mp stairs, and laid him upon
the bed, so Frustrated that thought he was
going TO die. Then | remembered the
French brandy you gave me in case of sick
nes-. ran to get it out.
"Haye little brandy and water dear"
said.
"The very thing. Smith is exhausted, too.
Give some to Smith," he said.
And so reproached myself for not having
thought of it before Mr.. Smith was gone.
But gave glass to Orlando, and under
! Providence think | saved his life; for, oh,
how bad he was,
"Belle,' said he quite faltering in his
speech, ''the room i going around so fast
that l can't catch your eye. And besides,
there are two of you, and / don't know
which is which,
| knew these were dreadful symptoms.
Take a drink, dear" said l, land I'll
try TO wake Mary and send her for the doc
| tor"
40" said he, 'I'il he ali right in the
morning. Pm all right nov. Here's yonr
! health You're brick. /" and fell
asleep.
Oh, Why do men like to think SO much Of
money making? Is not health better than
anything else?
Ofcourse, as he laid down in his hat,
took that off first And MANAGED To divcst