The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-03-05
She Left His Bed and Board
The following advertisement appears in
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The following advertisement appears in
the San Jose Patriot.
NOTICE-ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY WARNED
~ not to trust Mary E, Aborns [my wifel, as she
has left my bed and board without just prov
ocation and will not pay any bills contracted by her
fom and after this date. JOHN ABoRNs.
SAN JosE February o, 1875.
Mrs. Aborns now comes to the front and
makes the following telling statement in
reply to the above :. warning . by her non
crediting fiege lord:
The above notice appears now daily in
the San Jose Daily Patriot.
Why am thus published to the world?
And what human being on earth has the
right to do it?
Let us look at the facts have been the
and lived with him during the whole Of
that time-the prime of my life. That
makes $3.50 days. During that time I
have
COOKED ABOUT TEN THOUSAND MEALS OF
yTOTUALs,
Set the table as many times and cleared it
off and washed the dishes. During that
ten years have spent between ten and
fifteen thousand hours over hot cooking
stove, both in summer and winter. I have
cleaned up and swept his house for him
over ten thousand times. During that ten
years have borne to him six children, five
of them now living the youngest two and
a half years old. Besides the pains and
anxieties incident to childbirth (Which
every mother knows1, what steps, cares and
troubles (to say nothing of sickness and
anxious thoughts for my children) it has
cost me to bring them up it is impossible
for me to say every mother knows it better
than she can possibly tell it. In addition
to that l have made all their clothing
(besides my own), and during that time 1
have also made clothing and done sewing
for others for money, which
WENT INTO THE g COMMUNITY - FUNDS;
That is, as understand it, all the property
made by the husband and wife is commtl-
nifty property, but, in reality, belongs to
the husband, and it is called in law 'sconl-
munity property y to take off the sharp
edge of injustice More than that, during
those ten years have MIXED, on an aver
age, three cows twice day, which will
make about seven thousand milkings, be-
sides taking care Of the milk and making
butter from it. | have, during the whole
of that time, attended to the poultry, and
often have assisted Mr.. Aborns in loading
hay, sewing sacks and even cleaning ont
his stables.
Now, | have drawn the picture very
mildly. [ have made allowances for my
sicknesses, when | have had help, soa1e-
thing after the way that a farmer would
hire a horse if his own was sick and mn
| able to work. -
had nothing when / went there, and
NOTHING AT THE END OF THOSE TEN YEARS
OF sERvITUDE.
have lived, it is true, and was very moder-
| ately furnished with clothes. That is all
for my labor. What man is there in the
| world that would do the work ] have done
for the same compensation?
make this statement not out OF any
feeling Of revenge TO Mr.. Aborns, for he
has done only what hundreds of others
have done. In many respects he is q good
man; industrious, and, like hundrcds-yes,
thousands, OF others honest with every
body except his own family.
choose to live with him no longer my
| rea aSops are my own
And say again, what right has he to
impair my credit by publishing meP In
the name Of all that is just, / solemnly
protest against it. MARY e. ABoRNs.
The insignia on cards have an archaic
rather than an aesthetic interest. They
have known no change since the time of
Charles VI, when dresses were worn some
what suggestive oil the caricatures repre-
sonted. The spade was u spear head for