Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-20
a SPELL OF SINGLE nnEssEDNEss.

lily wife has gone away for the summer
an left me in full charge Of the house.
like it; hav'nt had such q run of liberty
since We were married, hope she's h&v
| ing good time, for can now exercise my
rights as the head of the family. Can't do
| it when she's at home; she'll not stand it.
She has rules, aud makes everybody about
her toe the mark. Bat I've got her nov,
and am having things my own way.
This morning cane home quite early. Il
was "A. NJ. I'd been to the club and got
| caught In the rain. For half an hour
couldn't fad the key hole, which must have
GOT N slaid. I felt for il everywhere, and
even got down into the yard and examined
every brick but couldn't find it. L was 10
the act Of calling one OF my neighbors and
asking him who had carried eff my front
door, when hap. G edtO fad it aid go. In
10 the b ,us5.
In the dark kicked ever spittOoD, but
luckily didn't get any Of the tobacco juice
on my boots. hung my oVercoat and
umbrella on q prong of the chan
dslier, let them drip on The parlcr
carret, went up stairs and turned
in with my boots on. l Thought
it wasn't worth while to pull them OF, as
would have to get up in eightor zen hours
ANYHOW. If nv wife hSd been ct home
she'd have had me locking an hour Tor
the boot.iack and l would have lost that
amount of rest, which my system so mnca
needed. Besides she'd have made NE give
a full account of myself, which ldont Ike
to do. I never did believe 10 praising my
SELF Us better to let others speak OF
ones virtues. l can now wear q shirt
week and it's nob0dy's business.
don't see how ever did ge5 along
with that woman, The idea OF
having to put on q clean shirt, black ny
boots ana brush my clothes every morning
is simply ridiculous. It is miracle tH me
how | ever did It and attended to my other
sffsrs. l now read the morning paper
without being forced to see an impstiens
woman standing with her dress in one
hand, looking very miserable, and finally
telling me that she is going down Town and
wants that paper for b.
Any one, to lock at the house now, wou.d
know there's no woman about, everything
is 50 quiet, and cemiortab,e sDd handy. IL
want to DO little figuring l don't have
to hunt up pencil, or pen and ink, but l
lust sit down to one of the tables al DO it
with my finger, and there's nobody to be
esernally welding dusting brush
around my bed and telling me
to get out of the way urtil
| the house is cleaned up. These are coDsid-
| ersti rs that every married man should
ponder over. But when we do ponder and
resolve, what good does it do? That's the
question which is TOW sgitating the Ameri-
can people. What good does it do? Not
! bit. II these women can't have everything
| tHaf thcU oil in
| byslerics. As a consequence, We have 10
Ua7 ffty dollar doctors bill, aud stay
| in the bousa all day, flaming them and
promising in the end that 1--WE may be hap
| py vet" before they show sny disposition
| TO compromise. Our wives are petied too
| much. And this reminds me that mine won't
yield to any othe- treatment. l undertook
| to prescribe a more stringent remedy for
! her one Jay, but it threw her into NJ
more like the iim.jams than anything
| kCeW of. She broke every plate IN the
house over my head and then l had to KISS
her ef0re she would promise not to do 1t
! again. That's what makes me say she is
set in her ways.
There. too, are the rianO and guitar
which she kept going from morning uulll
midnight, filling the whole neighborhood
| WIEN QIScOTOauL SOuUuS HclSu sdo SaiAOA
| music. Both are as mute IS the bird cage
which was vacated last Hesk by a strategic
movement of the cat.
The two hundred pos Of flowers she left
me to cultivate / don't think will prodnce
much of crop. They're nearly ell ripe
now and there's no sign Of flower yet
! | have watered them twice since she left,
but It did no goo1. | reckon they miss her
AID are pinirg away because she amt here.
IN this respect they do 10. resemble me- TO
any alarming extent.
Our kitchen never looked better. Tbs
stoye and pipe have assumed beautiful
red tint, aad the pots are bringiog forth
| fine crop Of white looking vegetable mould,
which haven't learned the nsme of, but
she'll kuow it when she comes. The Gishes
dom look quite as bright and clean as they
might, but the flies are bad this year, and
If were 10 wash them every two weeks
they wouldn't present respee, able spPear-
| aHce.
NOTE To THE EDIToR.--Plesse suppress
that article l sent you about my Spell OF
sinsle R!essednes.. The old woman has
| ha1lz