Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-04-05
Editors MiscezZ0zzU.
An Open Letter

TO JAMES Ii. MILLS, Editor New North
West:
Poor MILLS: find the following from
you in late issue of your paper:
ITO J. V. Bogert, Asso. Ed COURIER:
Open Liter: Anxious Vcsuvius: curt
thy farcy. A few more breaks ubo,u
marital infcl'cities and yon will lose yulli
family support. 1t is not the province of
country paper to twit on facts. Ii man
wants to welr out MS wifcs bones tI.r' slI-
ing her over a wnodpile and ,h-n sit down
on the r mairs aud smoke his pipe mcrcl,
because he has preference, which side OF
the bed he shall sleep on, it's no suhjcc'
for bachelor TO make merry about.
Wait ill she says ''yrs,' and you hear
"Soovr, SOONI, won't you take that
child a minuto?' about sixteen hundred
times a day ard you'll wish you ha.!
starved to death developing your quartz
b' fore you ever said anything TO wound
the feelings OF sensitive married men,"
AS you refer to the lately published
"Back side If The B''d' experience Of Mrs
Merindy Jones. leave you to her.
yes" l says TO Mr.. Jones; eyes. Sam
uel Jones'" says /; you We been and done
it now by your obstinacy as have got me
into that paper as is not the thing, for
that Mills IS las been but short time
married amt no authority,' says I, land
III not put up with it as well-remembers
my own mother bad jrst sech troubles
with her husband all men being slike,"
says l. and
"Now, see here!' said Samuel, a-inter-
as is his way. ''See here! Ill
have no more of this not as knows Of
and you not a-stoppin' to ketch your
breath in a hull column.'' said he.
Says but hadn't opened my mouth
as in my right when he broke in and said
his fa'her got The hitch on his wife and
took mis- side of the bed out Of the middle
and flowed her to lake hers OH both sides.
Says |, Samuel JONES'" says l, "you had
ought to blush at such senlments as Is q
mortal shame and a-brcakin' Of your
VOWS"
'Vows be durncd!" said he, violent like
upset the lamp and woke up the twins
and set the hull house roarin'. "Vows
be durned!" said he. 'You'll sleep where
put you, back side or front side, and /
want no more CAB about it,
Now, amt one as thinks men is made
to rule like tyrants, and all this talk about
their feelins like that man Mills gifts Oft
don't affect me nor change my idees II 1t
is in a paper, and l don't hold to
married men q settin' up of themselves to
dictate, when they can't bile a 'tater or
n uss a child if it IS their own. And why
shouldn't they take the Child minute
as that Ellis the shameless vagabone says
and he a husband and q father? After
that no respectable woman would light a
fire with his paper. which is things
done hold to noways as is demoraiZin' 10
q community. q settin' up the risin' gen
Grafton specially men TO maxim slaves OF
the female sex.
It's my opinion that that mans brute
TO home, for no man would allow hlsseH
to be called 1000 times day 10 lake the
baby. nor even twice when the very but
tons on his shirt has to he sewcd on by
his wife if they s thousand babies in the
house.
That's what 1 was a-thiDkln' when
Jones says, says he, when will dinner
be ready?"" "When.I We washed the twins''
says l, maxim up my mind to be inde?en
dent. "WheA will THAT be?'' says be.
..Wben I've put diaper on Leviticus,
SAID |. "When will THAT be?" said lie, his
ewes -snappin.' "When Marc Antony's
dressed, aud Iimotheus gifts his ha'r curl
|e,l. and Maria Anternett has her stockin's