Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-14

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Greeley's cooking about two days,
and never repeated the visit till
compelled to. They never came
back for pleasure.
"How are their relations nova
days?" | asked.
"Wcll, Horace lets her alone.
He never frets, and never chidcs
her, even though in some Of her
tantrums, she acts badly enough to
drive him crazy" 8
"Once," continued my friend, 81
was invited out to spend Sunday at
Chappaqua. Mrs. Greeley was in
one of her disagreeablc moods. She
made Mr.. Greeley walk in to the
farm on foot from the depot to
drive two goats; then when we got
halfway there, she inquired of
the driver his price. This she
refused to pay, and we all got out
and walked the rest of the distance.
When she got to the house she de-
clared she had lost the key, and
when Mr.. Greeley came up she
made the poor man crawl through
a side window and unbolt the door
on the inside, when, to the aston
ishment Of us all, she quietly show
ed us the key, which she kept in her
pocket all the time.'
"Was, not this done as a jokc?"
"No, not at all. 1t was done out
of pure deviltry, just to bother Mr..
Greeley"
And, Mr.. Greeley?
"Why he neither smiled nor com
planned. In fact in his treatment of
Mrs. Greeley and her whims, he is
the best man | ever knew. lie
never torgcts himself, but waits on
her and takes her seedlings like 4
young lover. Indeed, do believe
Mr.. Greeley loves his wife with all
her faults. He says he had hard
work to get her, that he married her
for love, and that he always shall
love her ~ no matter what she
does"
"Don't she never try to please
him?"
'.No, she tries hard to perplex
him. She used to believe that
children ought to be brought up in
4 state of nature, untra mmeled by
clothing. 10 carry out this idea,
she used to have straw placed on
the parlor floor, have the children
undressed, and make them run up
and down like Raphael's chcrubs,
and then laugh with the children at
their harmless but queer trolics.
s'Oncc ! called and found Mrs.
Greeley thus exercising the chill
dren. l suggested that it was about
time for Mr.. Greeley to come home
and asked her if / shouldn't help
her dress the children.
"'No, no!' exclaimed Mrs. Gree
ley, 'if Horace don't like my theories
he can stay away. | don't do any
thing to please any fool Of q man. -
One Of Mrs. Greeley's fancies was
to have her childrcn's shoes made
three-cornered, SO as to fit their
feet, and she actually kept her
childrcn's feet in these outlandish
shoes for years.
"IIow long will Mrs. Greeley re-
main in Europe!" | asked.
"She will probably remain in
Europe with her two daughters
until after the election, unless she
takes it into her head to come home.
If she does take a freak to come
back, neither Horace nor ten men
can stop her. If she should return
she would certainly do something
to icopardize his election. She don't
know what the word policy means.
She would, as like as not, do and
say ridiculous things, just to bother
her husband"
"Would she 90 to the White
Uouse?"
"Shc most certainly would if she
took q notion. No one has any
control over her except her devoted
daughters. They have really shown
something Of the angelic in their
care for their mother. They have
worn themselves out waiting for
her"
p. 5. Since the above was written
we learn that Mrs. Greeley, who is
now in London, will be on her way
home Oh the lst of June-to-day.