Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-22
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ON BRA WLERS.

noi been disguised at the yocifer.
nu, AMI sarcastic tongue ola Draw
iing aDuan , Who has ever been
satisfied ~ remain long IN such 4
CHAR, prrpe;raird b controversy
ami -ilifs-y VIII, has e3er made ii
pracii't. withous seiag notorious:
AA,t, furthermore. WHO has ever
heea rniaihually within audible
resci, Miihuui being iiinself iDfec-
irt. : sfnf truty. where enc has
ben ,lia,wn vii in IT, dreadful
iatr Ter, ne stunts expDsed to its
t.utifagipD / II vice which. when
aaY deeply seated in the manager
NJ ii household. will soon develop
Itself u the W'iole fsnily, aud any
one 4 no Is went 10 tTaSpass its
dread il0ininiOGs. SO subtle is it in
ig~ progress that one Is uIantied in
the haDililnent before he is aware
that tie ii is victim. The only
way eStaut, as Il preventative, is
10 oe very careful how you respond
when you haye been reprehended
iuaIiciously. Vindicate yourself
-edaiely and calmly. aud by earn
estly adhering TO these principles
you will ultimately surmount all
re reaches that proceed from the
mouth Of 81 wrangler. 1t Is invari-
ably the result. where one is adj
dicied 10 braWling, that he seldom
knows what he is talking about, or
t,dks in anything sc but bGist-
er0us, sarcastic, reproachiul and
noisy lone. Indeed, 4 most, calm
telker would be utterly inaudibe
to a contiguous nearer. in the bed
lam above described For says the
housewife IN opprohrium. " Bets,
will you ever get the dishes wash
ed? Why, ] declare | have the
worst set of children that God ever
put breath into Where is John?
John! if you don't get some dry
wood here in less time than five
minutes, III all bu kill you
never have anything but green
logs to burn The incest, dryest
wood | ever saw was at Thomas
the other day. If | was only in
his wife's place! Fan, do hurry
you know that those people will
all be here for dinner, (expects
company md you have not swept
the house And you, Bets, If you
don't hurry your st1mps little
faster than you have been. / de-
clare to God, | don know what is
to become OF you. You have been
ever since O'Clock, yes, / may
say ever since you got out of bed
this morning, putting on your
shoes and swallowing that mouth
ful Of breakfast. While | got up,
put on my shoes, washed, got the
tin and bucket, went out TO the
barn, MIXED the cows, brought
the milk in, filtered ii, washed the
bucket, tin and strainer, made the
fire cut the meat, made coffSe; yes,
1 may say got the whole break fast,
for Ann was not worth a pickup
in the big road, and | don't know
how many thousand little thing;
which / did not count Now, L
think it a sin and shame for set
Of children TO act SO careless as you
do, When / was a child, my mo-
Their would have cut the life quito
me. No; if l were single again.
would never marry-no not to the
king himself No, never, if /
should live to be as old as Methu-
saleh's goat. believe al, men are
ali&e; careless, and ion't care if
their wives live or die think
them soulless. No, there is one
exception. There is Fanny she
has as good Il man as one could
wish for. But mine-he is too lazy
to work, and will buy nothing but
some old cheap -four, and then
blame me if the bread is not good.
A woman was born TO see no hing
but trouble "ssThus they go on dis
tilling ana ihiusing the same into
the children. This does not cOnfine
itself to the woman alone, but to
all who allow their tenpers to car
ry them away. What satisfaction,
we would ask, does IL woman see if
she has left her father aud mother
to cledve TO the man she loves who
is gone away all week and leaves
her lonely at home, if, when he
comes home, she receives nothing
but snaps and snarIs from the ire
full, dissipated wretch O! what
tongue can express the sorrow Of
that innocent heart? O! what can
heal the sorrow if he refuses to re-
linquish his temerity? She has
severed the last tender tie which
held her closely in her parents en-
dearment,and against their injunc-
tions. eloped with one she thought
she could confide in. But alas he
is exclusive of all refinement, and
elects nothing from his polluted
lips but oaths and perlidious abus-
es. o! who but mothers under
such perfidous circumstances can
feel those adverse les as they real
ly are. Let those who read this,