The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-08-15

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when DC was running u,a Morning Pcs.
is 1858.
How DO yen meaus inquired,
WHY, Mr. Greeley then ayeJiaa cheap
way. Neither De nor Mrs Greeley ate
mea, or drank tca and coffee Tlo.r diet
was Graham bread. boiled beans and sale
and cold water. Alr Greeley ms told
me about Il q dozen times, continued my
lady friend, and be bas told m1 how Mrs,
Greeley acted when she had Higuds 30
visit her iron tbe country.
How was that,
Well she would set her ,itlo table with
Graham bread, milk, beans, saIt ana wat.
er; and when they an 500 down She would
never apologize, or even explain any
thing, but leave her company to DO thc
best they could.
Sometimes, said Mr., Greeley, used TO
suggest TO my wife that we ought to eX-
plain matters 20 our visitors, but she said
No, no, llorace What Is good enough
for Us, is good enough for them! The re-
suit was, said Mr. Greeley laughing,
that people who came to stay week gen
orally stood Mrs. Greeley. cooking about
two days, aud never repeated tho visit til
compelled to. They never came back
for pleasure.
How are their relations nowadayss |
asked
Well, Horace lets her alone, lie never
frets, and never chdes her, even though
in some of her anturms She acts badly
enough TO drive him crazy.
Once, continued my friend, ! was in-
vited ont to spend Sunday at Chappaqua.
Mrs. Greeley was in a disagrecablo
mood. She made Mr.. Greeley walk IN
to the farm on foot from the depot to
drive two goats; then when we got half
way there, she inquired Of the driver his
price. This she refused to pay, and we
all got out and walked the rest Of The dis.
| tance.
When we got to the house she declared
she had lost the key, and when Mr., Gree
Icy came up she made the poorman crawl
through the side window aud unbolt the
door on the inside, when, TO the astonish-
ment of us all, she quietly showed us the
key, which she kept in her pocket all the
/ time.
Was not This done MS n iOkpY
No, not at ALL 1t was done ont Of pure
deviltry, just to bother Mr.. Greeley.
And Mr.. Greeley?
Why he neither smiled nor complained.
In fact, in his treatment Of Mrs. Greeley
and her whims, he is the best man | ever
knew. lie never forgets her, but waits
on her and takes her scolding like a
young lover. Indeed, do believe Mr..
Greeley loves his wife with all her faults.
lie says he had hard work " get her that
he married her for love, aud that he al
ways shall love her no matter what she
Don't she ever try to please liinf
No, she tries hard TO perpex him. She
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brought up in a state Of nature, untram'
meled by clothing. TO oorry out thi.
idea she used to have straw placed on the
parlor floor, have the children undressed
and make them run up and down like
Raphaels cherubs, and then laugh with
the children at their harmless but queer
frolics. Once | called and found Mrs
Greeley thus exercising the children.
suggested that it was about time for Mr.
Greeley to come home, and asked her i
shouldn't help her dress the children.
No, mol exclaimed Mrs. Greeley, i
Horace don't like my theories he can stay
away. don't do anything to please any
fool of a man.
One OF Mrs. Greelcy's fancies was {,
have her children's shoes made three-cor
nered, SO as to fit their feet, and she act
ually kept her ehiIdren's lcctin these ont
landish things for years.
How long will Mrs, Greeley remain il
Europe?
she VIII probably remain III Eufop'
with her two daughters until after tn,
election, unless she takes it into her heaC
10 come home. If she should take lreal
to come back, neither Horace nor ten
men can stop her II she should return
she would certainly do something to joop
afdise bis election. She don't know wha
the word policy means. She would, IL
, ike as not, DO and say ridiculous things
! just to bother her husband,
Would she 60 to the White Houset
She most certainly would If she took
notion. No one mas any control over he
except her devoted daughters. The.
have really shown something Of the an
gclic in their care for their mother. The