Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-03

HOW wovaS GOT 1ur ADVANTAGE.
When We hear Of q sinner ofa husband
who has rcpented and is not ashamed to adj
yertisc bis repentance. reason enough there
is for our making much of him while E he
happens To reside in Chicago. he must be re-
garded as rare and fascinating phenomenon.
The world has So long believed that all the
shrews I'm it wear pcttic0at~, that it might
doubt the existence Of shrcW in rauta-
looms. If he did not youch for it over his own
sign-manual. The Chicago specimen Of this
genus. all ladies VIII be happy 10 hear. IS
exceedingly sick and sorry. After growing
at his breakfast. after flying into syaSmS of
protane rage in regard to shirt buttons al-
ter scolding his dame for sitting up for him
and likewise scolding her for going to bed
after auditing with disgusting preci~enes-
her dry-goods bills. and possibly speaking
diSrcspectiully. of her beloved mother. this
Chicago man went home one night to dis
cover that she had by flight upset and, a- It
were. smashed the domestic altar. So far
from being able TO gruntat his supper, there
was literally no supper for him to grunt ut.
There was the nuptial couch, with pillows
for two. where, alas there was only one
head to De accommodated There was the
long night Of loncsomeness before him, with
nobody to snarl at, and no coffee or rolls,
good or bad, in the perspective Of the bright
rosy morning. There were the shirts. per-
hans all buttonlcss. and likely to remain So.
although the next day might be Sunday.
Wrath was unayailing; despair sat mocking
among the shivered household gods upon the
desolate hearth-stone; and this wretched
husband, in the bitterness of his lonely soul,
began to comprehend that he had been the
cunning architect of h.s own ruin. and
iackass into the bargain. W hat he did dur
ING that dreary and dragging night We are
not informed but morning found him con.
trite and wlted Seizing pen he hastily
wrote the following advertisement for all the
word-for astonished husbands and giggl-
ing wiyes-to read in the Chicago Times.
BE it known that shamcfully treated my
wife. and was the cause of her leaving me,
whereas She was good wife. Ii She viii
return viii be all husband can be-
WHT.
We are willing to accept this evidence of
Mr. Mhit's change of heart. in spite of the
ambiguity of his concluding phrase. \
husband e can be, as this very person, ac-
cording To his own confession. has shown.
an exceedingly disagreeable person \ hus-
band "can be- brute, torment, a plague,
a curse, nuisance, n botheration, and a
chronic calamity \ husband " can be a
spendthrift, sluggarl, dronc, malicious
Ounce, and petty despot Husbands have
been all these and worse. and So the Chicago
sinner and peniient may have been. lie
Acknowledges that he - shamelully treated -
Mrs. Whit. and has only himself to thank
for her flight. Shameiully treated = is q
very suggestive phrase. Then mark the
pathetic acknowledgement whereas she
was good wife" There can be no ques-
tion about it-Whit was wrong; but then
Whit is very sfrry and has magnanimouSly
Acknowledged it, and if these lines should
meet the eyes of Mrs. Whit, we woald ad-
wise her to return to her Whit, and silently
and without tear bury the past. if she has
not done 50 already.
The world Is full of unreasonable hus-
bands, with here and there. if we may he
allowed to say 50, an unreasonable wife but
! if there be any ill-used woman whose
"grouty' good man crowns the ebnllitions
of his spleen by threatening to abscond, let
her adopt the expedient of saying with a
cheerful smile Il think you had better
not remember Mr.. Whit, the Chicago
bolter. my dear ~ J. T,l5lne