The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-17
a Patient Wife.
in. Quod, in Detroit Free Pr

q She's little bit of q woman all patience
and sunshine, and I'd spoil the best silk hat
that money could buy for the privilege Of lend
ing her my UMBRELLA In q rain storm.
She's married, and she's got an old rhinoceros
OF husband. He makes IL practice to come
home tight ut II o'clock every other night, and
has for years, and he can't remember that abe
ever gave him GROSS word about it,. When
he falls into the hall she is waiting TO close the
door and help him back to the sitting room.
where goodsfrs awaits him. She draws off
his boots, unbuttons his collar, helps him OFF
with his coat, aud all the time she is saying:
xPoor Heuryi How sorry am that you had
this attack of vsrtigoi I'm afraid that you
will be- found dead by the roadside some
"Whazzer mem by verzigoi" he growis But
she helps him off with his vest, and pleasantly
continues:
''Im SO glad you got home ali right. hope
the day will come when you can pass more of
your time ut home. It's dreadful how your
business drives you"
"What bishnssss whaz yer talking bout ="
he replies
''Poor one, how hot your head is ~ she con-
Times, and presently be breaks down aud
weeps and exclaims:
"Yez Zur-Zic's orse-wearing zelf out
fhast's can-wishZi was dead!'
Next morning she never refers to the subject,
but PLEASANTLY inquiries how he slept, aud if
his mind is clear His boots may be missing,
and be yells Out:
"Whar'n thunder's my bootsf,
right here, my DEAR" she replies and she
hands them oat. all nicely blacked up.
all 81 sse wants dress as or hat OF CLOAK
eating him up, she never "sasses" him back,
nor tells him that she could have married Q
Congressman, nor declares that she will write
to her mother and tell her Just how IL Ia.
"That's 30, my dear-times are hard" she
says, and she gets mp just "a good dinner a.
if he had left her fifty dollars.
He may come home tight at supper times but
she is not shocked. She remarks thst it il an
unexpected pleasure to have him home 90
early, and she pretends not to notice his stupid
look. He sees three chairs where there 10 but
one, and in trying to sit down he strikes the
floor like the fall of q derrick.
"Whazzer jaw chat chair way for W he
It's that hole in the carpet knew you
would stumbled" and she helps him tup and
brings him strong cup of tea.
They do not keep q servant, and when cold
weather came she never thought of planking
herself down in chair opposite him and say
HNow, then, you'll either get up and light
the fires or there won't be any hghted-mark
that, old baldheadW -
No; she didn't resort to any such base and
tyrannical measures. When daylight comes
she slips ont of bed, makes two fires, warns
his socks, and then, bending over him, she
says; .,
He's sick sometimes, and I've known that
woman to coax him for two straight hours to
take the doctors medicine, turn over his pillow
twenty-five times, keep o wet cloth on his
head, pare his corns down, and then wish that
she had o nail to make BIN some soup. When
he gets into fight down town and comes
home with his ears bitten up and his nose
pointing to the northeast, she inquiries how
the horse happened to run away with him,
and she says she is 90 thankful that he wasn't
killed. She has an excuse for anything, and
she never admits that anyone but herself 10 to
blame about any hing Lor' bless her-I hope
she'll slip into heaven and Hsvsr be asked .
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