Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-12-08
REPORT OF THE NAN WHO KEPT HOUSE
WHILE HIS WIFE WENT INTO
THE COUNTRY.

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married. hope she is having a
good time, for l 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, and
makes everybody about her toe the
mark. But Pve got her now, and am
having things my own way.
This morning | came home quite
early. 1t was 3 A. NJ; I'd been to
the club and got caught in a rain.
For half an hour | couldn't find the
key-hole, which must have got mis-
laid. felt for it everywhere, and
even got down in the yard and exam
ined every brick, but couldn't find it.
was in the act of calling one of my
neighbors, and asking him who had
carried off my front door, when hap
pened to find it and got into the
house.
In the dark l kicked over a spit
toon, but luckily didn't get any of the
tobacco juice on my boots, | hung my
overcoat and umbrella on a prong of
the chandelier, and let them drip on
the parlor carpet, went up stairs and
turned in with my boots on. /
thought it wasn't worth while to pull
them off, as | would have to get up in
eight or ten hours anyhow. If my
wife had been at home, she'd have me
looking an hour for the boot,jack, and
| would have lost that amount of rest,
which my system so much needed
Besides she'd have made me give a
full account of myself, which | don't
like to do. never did believe in
praising myself It's better to let
others speak of ones virtue. l can
now wear shirt week, and it's no.
body's business. | don't sec how
ever did get along with that woman.
The idea of having to put on clean
shirt, black my boots and brush up
my clothes every morning, is simply
1t is miracle to me
how | ever did it and attend to- nv
own affairs. now read the morning
paper without being forced to see an
impatient woman standing with one
hand extended, looking very misera-
Ole, and telling me to go down town
As she wants that paper. Any one, s
o look at the house now, would know [
heres no woman about, everything is
10 quiet and comfortable and handy 6
f want to do a little figuring, don't 6
rave to hunt for pencil, or pen and t
nix, but just sit down to one of the
ables and do it with my finger, and
here's nobody TO be eternally WELD :
nga busting brush around my bed :
nd telling me to get out of the way !.
Until the house is cleaned mp. These
re considerations that every married !,
nan should ponder over. But when !
We do ponder and resolve, what good :
loes it do? That's the question which
5 now agitating the American people.
What good does it do? Not bit. II II
hese women, can't have everything t.
lst their own. way, they swoon off in "
, Mysteries. As consequence, we t.
ave to pay fifty,dollar doctors bill, "
nd stay in the house all day, tanning e.
lem aud promising in the end that
we may be happy yet" before they
now a disposition 10 compromise. y
ur wives are petted too much. And "
lis reminds me that mine won't yield y
} any other treatment. | undertook u
prescribe more stringent remedy /"
+ her one day, but it threw her into
tit more like jilniams than anything in
know of. She, broke every plate in tr
e house over my head. and then ! Of