Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-06-22
Archie HutchingtOn's Views on
Marriage.

Laws a-massy, soul sakes! When
l was young, twas different then. Why,
when folks was a-going to get mar
ried, they took time, and meditated
upon it, and kinder studied each other
out, and reflected and considered and
when they did get married they were
married for sartain, and very much
married-married from top to toe;
and they expected to stay married
there warn't no talk of your divorces
then; they knew beforehand that they
was to 'hev and to hold till grim
death, and they mostly usually did.
Bnt now young fellow sees pretty
gal, and asks her to marry him just as
he'd ask her to take walk and she's
all ready-'yes, Sir. and:thank yer,
oo,'-and they go and get married,
with no more realizing sense of their
responsibility than Cock Robin has
hen he twitters and chirps to Jenny
Robin. Well, pretty soon they so at it
she finds she don't like tobacco
smoke, and he don't like a wife that
can't do thing but frizzle her hair
and SO it goes from bad to worse, un-
til at last they sue for disvorce. And
they'll get it, too! And all for what?
! Why, for uncOmfortability of-temper
Oh laws-a- massy, soul sakes! now,
did you ever? 'uncomfortability of
temper" Oh, Lordy !" ''Incompati
bility of temper, MIR. Hutchington, -
L suggested.
'Yes, l know it; uncomfortability
of temper-them' S the words that does
it. Well, is not there alters uncom-
Portability of temper in every family,
and alters has been, and alters will be
Only in the good old times they used
to screw it down and keep it under
and so, you see, they managed to get
along without none OF yer disvorces.
"Don't yer suppose, sir, that there
was uncomfortability of temper enough
in Noah's ark, with all them odds and
ends of creation-creeters that wasn't
noways agreeable to one another's
feelings all messed in together there
, dogs and cats, sheep and wolves
foxes and geese, chickens and weasels
land skunks, I'll bet)-and mighty
small stable room accommodations,
tell you! How was it bout uncom
e Portability of temper there, do yol
s'pose? Why, don't you see, they heC
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! and bear away as the sailors say the
lion, l 'spose he roared kinder sof
like, so as MOTTO skeer the turtledoves
r and the hyenay, she did not laugl
I out as loud as she wanted to, / dar,
say the big bear, he kinder shut NJ
growing; and the kang'roo took carr
not to leap on other fOlkses toes; til,
horse was keerful not to kick up hi
t heels; and if the dog felt as mad a
e fire, he didn't bite nobody.
! "That was the way they done it, M
. doubt ont; stands to reason they did
@ cause, don't you see, sir if they hat
: all on um given way to their uncom
o Probabilities of temper, ana each on I'LL
O acted out their own onregenerate mater
Q why in course they'd hev stove til
: bottom out of that laundering old tu
: of his in less than no time, and she'
! a foundercd, and they'd all gone t.
A the bottom, and there wouldn't he
been no call for any moro wedding
, rings, that's sartain; and where yo
q and would be now, it's mighty har
d thing to say.
4 s'But, as l was saying, they didn't
IS they behaved beautiful / don't Sc
n how it was-scems it couldn't hev bee
> Noah's doings-for, between you an
7s I, l guess he wasn't much an unsteady
Y drinking man he alters was, you know
wasn't he, sir? and not used to nav
eating, by no means. But 1 will sa
fort, he managed that cruise remark
Y ably we'll, considering what his carg
l. was, and that his crew was half womeI
% kind; he sartainly made a savin
70 wage of it, which was a good dea
n all things considered !"-Hdrper
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