Connecticut western news., 1872-04-19

went away this morning, that wished
 dinner at the hour, and there isn't even
 the sight of its being ready It really
 looks as if it were done on purpose"
 eff had the cooking to do, you should
 never wait a minute, but I ca1i't always make servants do as please" replied Mrs.
 Lundy. -e., ,.F- : s.a 49 se. r...5
 "That's all nonsense, I don't believe a
 word of it, wonder how I'd get along in my business if I was to let my clerks do
 as they liked I have a certain order in my business, and every subordinate has
 his duties, and knows that they must be
 done. Reduce all your household matters
 to alike orders, and keep every one strictly
 to her duty, and you'll have things right,
 but not without"
 Mrs. Lundy feared her husband; or, j rather, dreaded and shrank under his
 displeasure If she had been more inde-
 pendent and spirited, she would have
 silenced instead of borne his selfish con-
 plainings, but she was meek, patient,
 suffering woman, who rarely spoke ot
 what she felf, or resented an indignity.
 She did not reply to her husbands dog
 matic and dictstorial words, any further
 than to say in subdued manner. s~a. eff you had ignorant, careless, self
 willed servant girls to deal with, instead
 of intelligent clerks you might find it as
 difficult as do to have all things in order"
 "Send them away if they don't do as
 you wish. I'd never keep a girl in the
 house an hour, if she didn't do everything
 as desired.'' r.t9 er~ ,,s .t
 I"You don't know anything about it, + Mir. Lundy. It is easy to say, send off I ooNLy ch Sc fnv1 4oe
 late with meal, or serves it up badly,
 "r docs any ything that is disorderly, but it
 is worse to have no cook. than a bad one
 and as to good ones, they; are hard to be-
 found." er n: .a .| .-.. .t ..s-.4
 MT. Lundy met this with one of his
 sweeping specimens of representations,
 and completely silenced his wife. l "But," he said, impatently, "I can't
 wait you cooks movements. My business
 has to be attended to,n and away he
 flounced from the house ]; in ten minutes
 the bell rung. ...s ....-.... LARA. .... "Tell Sarah that MT. Lu1dy couldn't fl wait, and that don't want any dinner" ,, said Mrs. Lundy to the waiter.
 , As for the very punctinal and amiable
 husband, he went to his store, and sat through the entire afternoon, without putting hand or thought to business. A little patience would have lost him noth-
 ing, and made both business and his wife happier. .--'''! +'is -@''si'- After MT. Lundy left the house, his wife tried to do some plain sewing for her chil-
 dren, that was very much. needed, but, with the maddening pain in her head and face, and the binding tears in her eyes,
 she found it itimpossible to make a stitch , correctly, so she laid aside her work, and , took the baby, thinking to nurse her if ' she could do nothing else, but baby, wide awake and full of life, was not content to d sit quietly in her lap; but must be danc- , ing and Jumping every moment; Patient ly for nearly an hour did the mother bear the jar and shock of the child's quick motions, until sensation of faintness came I over her, and she was very near falling from her chair. After resigning the baby Mrs. Lundy went into her chamber and laid herself upon the bed, she had taken little or no food that day had been suffer 2 ing from severe pains, had been worried | and excited with the children, and worse !, than all, her husbands unsympathizing Il and unfeeling conduct had made her feel II II wretched. Is it any wonder that she felt . . i'll; or that, when MT. Lundy returned in VI the evening, he should find her ina con- 5 dition requiring medical treatment2 The ' doctor was called Tn, he did not unders tand T. her case. How could he2 The medicine
 he gave created a strong rcvulsion in her system, and did her actually more harm
 than good. ..-4sE -ss .la ,zz a- ..4. s She was confined two weeks to her cham !, !, Der, and then went forth again into her household, weaker and more nervously sen- tsitive than before, to direct, control and minister to the wants of her ever-Wantlng, o ever-active children, and to wait upon her
 husband, consult his tastes and Lear his s complaints whenever anything that went T. wrong in tho household abridged his com '. fort in the smallest degree. .s..-..- s. Il Not less than three or four times year '' was Mrs. Lundy made sick in the way de- | scribed. When she was bending under the 'ee burden that was too heavy for her, hel husband, instead of Tightening, as he might "a easily have done, the load, or given hel W strength to bear it, laid on the additional pr weight that crushed her to the earth. But 5: no one suspected this-not even MT. Lundy 't himself. The idea that he was murderine oi his wife by a slow and cruel death would 'd have shocked him and he would hay, ct thought such an intimation an unpardona le ble outrage. And yet such was really th' e. fact. He was murdering her. Year afte le year her duties and her toll increased. Tn, or history of day that we have given wa
 an -epitomized history of her, life. MI e. Lundy, so wrapped up in his schemes 0 h. gain, and so rigid in his notions of order of punctuality and formal propriety, had nc ns real sympathy for his wife, and was eve 9d complaining of the little irregularities incl en dent to his household, and ever adding to to instead of relieving, the oppressive, weary ng ing and eVer-1ecurring duties that wer H. bearing her down. It was common thin en for him, robust and in high health, to sit i K his easy chair, with dressing gown and slip VII pers, and ask h1s tired wife, who coul K, scarcely move without feeling pain, to han d. him this, that, or the other thing to rin 1t, the bell for the servant, or even to go u ng to their chamber and bring him somethin Ter from drawer to which he was not willin ne that domestic should go. Meeker, nor ast patient, more loving in her character gre, Ter Mrs. Lundy by suffering she was purified ds It made the heart ache to see her movin ito by the side of her erect, forid, elastic ok treading husband, more like pale, shae he owy form than a real substance; and { if feel assured that in very little while tt
 places that knew her, and the children an id friends who loved her, would know her an ,ep love her no more.
 old At last she died, and six little ones wei in left without the afectionate care of a mott " CT. If her husband, who wept so bitterl in- over her too early grave, did not murd'
 her, we know not the name of the wol
 murder. When it was too late, he coul cd, remember her long suffering, her patienc