The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-17
orTUMwA wApEILo COUNTY IOWA THURSDAY AUGUST H. 1877
IoVH,S YoUy6o pRHANI

URSDAY, AUGUST II,
I 4. LOVES YoUss0 DRHASG
The following choice piece Of ssr
casm. from the Metropolitan Record
which purports to have been writer
bya young wife in New York to hel
prim and spectacled maidened aunl
In Boston, may, in truth, have beer
indited by the latter lady herself
with q view to expose the absurd In
fatuation with which girl. brides shut
Themselves mp in the delusion thai
their husbands are embodiments d
perfection. If the old lady did write
the document, It Was hardly fair d
her TO 60 and palm il off on the in
noceh6e Of inexperienced bridehood
An ExHAUsrED HUSBAND.
Ny DEAR AUNT Although you
told me when / invited you to my
wedding, that was too young tc
marry, and not capable of chosing o
mate for life properly and with due
consideration, / know that you may
now feel that l was wiser than you
thought. In selecting dear Orlando
| have gained q most affectionate
and attentive husband, and one who
has neither fault nor a vice. Heav-
ems! What must o girl suffer who
finds herself united to dissipated
person, neglectful of her, and dis.
posed to seek the society OF unwor-
thy persons, who drink, smoke, and
do all sorts Of dreadful thingsi
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfec-
tion.
To-day is my eighteenth birthday,
and we have been married year.
We keep house now, and | can make
pretty good pie, only the undercrust
will be damp. However, l think
that must be the oven. Once 1 put
peppermint in the pudding sauce in.
stead Of lemon favoring; but then
Orlando was trying to kiss me, right
before the girl, who didn't much like
either Of US going into the kitchen al
all.
The flowers are coming up beauti-
fully in the back garden. We sowed
. great many seed, but hardly ex-
pected so many plants. Among the
most numerous is one variety with q
vely large leaf, that scratches ones
fingers, and don't smell nice. ! won
der what it is. Orlando frightens
me BY talking about weeds but
seeds always come up, don't they?
Dear Orlando! / come back to
him again--so excellent, temperate
and true. Tell all the girls to marry
as soon as they can, ifthey can find q
husband like mine.
1have but one trial-business takes
him 80 much away from me. A law
yer must attend to business, you
know and sometimes they carry on
the cases until two at night. Often
and often he has examined witnesses
until halt past twelve and come home
perfectly exhausted. And the nasty
things viii smoke, SO that his dear
coat quite smells of it. And as it
makes him as i'll rs it does me, /
have to air it, and sprinkle the lining
with cologne water before he dare
put it on again.
had terrible fright the other
night-dreadful. Orlando had told
me that business-I think he said it
was case of life or death--would
detain him late. So I sat up az I
usually did, with q book and did not
worry until about one o'clock. After
that was a little anxious confess,
and caught a cold in my head peep-
ing through the upstairs window
blinds for, dear aunt, it was not un-
til three o'clock that / heard cab
driving up the street, and saw it
stop at our door then / thought l
should faint for / was sure some
dreadful accident had happened to
Orlando.
l ran down to open the door, and
Mr.. Smith, a friend Of Orlando's who
is not, l confess, very much to my
tastc-such red faced, noisy man
was just supporting my dear boy up
the steps.
"Oh, what has happened p criod |.
Don't be frightened, Mrs. White,' y
said Mr.. Smith. Nothing at all
only White is . little exhausted.
Application to business will exhaust
man, and thought Id bring him
home"
"All right, Belle" said Orlando.
Smith tells the truth-I'm exhaust.
ed"
And, dearest aunt, he was 30 much
SO that he spoke quite thick, and
couldn't stand up without tottering
MIR. Smith was kind enough to help
him up stairs; and he laid him upon
the bed, SO prostrated that l thought
he was going to die. Then re-
membered tho French brandy you
gave me in case OF sickness. l ran
to get it out.
"Have a little brandy and water
dear z" said.
l no NCIy VhluSs A1iultu 10 GA
hausted, too. Give some 10 Smith,
said he.
And SO | reproached myself 70,
not having thought OF il before Mr.
Smith was gone. But gave a glass
to Orlando and under Providence
think it saved his life for, oh, how
bad he was
Bell" said he, quite taltering II
his speech, "the room is goine
around so fast that l can't catcf
your eye. And besides there Is two
of you, and don't know which il
which,"
| knew these were dreadful symp
toms.
"Takc drink, DEAR" said l, "ant
I'll try to wake Mary and send he
for the doctor"
| "No," said he, "I'll be all right ia
the morning. I'm all right now
Here's your health. You're brick
l." And fell over fast asleep.
| Oh, why do men think so much o
money making? Is not health bet
ter than anything else?