The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
Harry Vane'S Wife.

sill, and gracefully removing HagrahC
Havana from his lips for the purpose of ex-
haling a cloud of the perfumed smoke. Il
wouldn't marry jealous woman If she was
sole heiress to old Astor. tell you, Wal
ter, il wouldn't do for my wife to be jeal-
GUS. This being eternally constant to any
one little bundle of lace and divinity is an
utter impossibilty to man of my consti-
tuition. have natural taste for variety,
do YOU see and the most want of wife
is to keep house for me and take care OF
things, and give me little leisure to make
myself agreeable to womenknd in general
When nothing more agreeable turns up,
why of course she then can have the privi-
lege of entertaining me, which with the
consolation of knowing that her husband is
the most accomplished lady-killer in town,
will, take it, be ample compensation for
all her services in my behalf. But you see
if she was any ways jealous she might not
think so."
sit would be possible, | should think, "
said Walter Everett, "that she might be
inclined to disagree with you. / should
think any woman who loved you, would
naturally object to such an arrangement. :"
"Oh, pshaw Everett, that proves you to
be novice. Don't you know that love in
female heart is made up of just two ele-
ments, vanity and self-sacrifice. Just give
woman husband she is proud of, and
you--or, that is, you might not be able to,
but man of my accomplishments can coax
her into anything under the sun. Wait
till marry, I'll show you how to manage
wife. I'll show you how to unite all the
freedom of bachelor with all the privi-
leges Of Benedict"
Walter smiled and puifed away at his
cigar in silence.
The two young men were clerks in u
large mercantile establishment down town.
They occupied the same room in their
boarding-hO and were generally on
very close and intimate terms. Perhaps it
may not be necessary to inform the reader
that Harry was something of a coxcomb,
though he was by no means as immoral as
might be inferred from his own account of
himself. This Walter knew, and he could
therefore listen to his occasional strains of
gasconade with the utmost serenity, even
though perfectly aware at the time that the
speaker entertained serious ideas of finally
bestowing the ineffable honor of his name
and protection upon certain little cousin
of his own, Miss Susie Stanton. That his
confidence went SO far as to lead him to
conceal from the said young lady the senti-
ments SO frequently expressed, we cannot
vouch. Indeed, the writer rather has the
idea that the two frequently talked over in
private this unfortunate failing of their
mutual friend, and studied frequently to
devise some method of reducing the pro-
portions Of Harry's organ of variety.
Nothing very effectual was accomplished
during the courtship, however, and in due
process of time Mr.. Harry Vane entered the
state of matrimony, under the full eonvic-
tion that his loving Susie possessed not one
spark of jealousy and that her overween-
cept whatever attentions it might please
him to bestow upon her with unfeigned
gratitude and joy; and to preserve dis
Greet silence in regard to whatever she
might see in his outgoing or incomings that
was peculiar or mysterious.
To do Susie justice, she was not natural
ly of a jealous disposition but besides her
innate amiability in that respect, she had a
little bit of that shy, womanly pride, which
made her resolve that she wouldn't be
jealous. No, indeed she would never be
pointed at as a jealous wife neither should
Mr.. Harry Vane have the pleasure of in
sinuating that he managed his wife; that
she was duly instructed and trained at
home, to look conveniently in the other di-
rection, whenever he chose to open the in
vincible battery of his fascinations upon
any innocent and unsuspecting young fe-
male. No, no; the little lady was quite
too cute for that.
1t therefore happened that whenever at
ball or party, Mr.. Harry Vane made him
self particularly agreeable to any lady,
Mrs. Harry Vane also cultivated the same
individual If Mr.. Harry Vane only danced
with the young lady, OF escorted her out to
supper, Mrs. Harry Vane contented herself
with the most amiable inquiries after said
young ladys health, and gracious hopes
that the family at home were quite we'll ;
if Mr. Vane danced twice or thrice with
the young lady, Mrs. Vane straightway in
vited her to call, and intimated that she