The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-11-20
THE FRETTING WIFE.

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Jane Loyettto her husband. II had
just'made everything nice and COM
Portable when you came in; and now
see the. dirt wherever you've been
from one side Of the room to the 9th
er; and it must be the same in the
entries and on every stair. I'm COM
pletely tired out with brushing and
busting -
"Fretl ffetl just every time / come
into the housel" was Williams sooth-
ing response. 81 should think your
tongue would get tired"
II do not get tired of speaking to
you about things which make me SO
much trouble, and yet you do not
seem to mind them at ALL"
"No; and SO much speaking only
makes me mind the less"
"That's just as amiable as you are.
You never care how much l have to
go through, nor how much | suffer.
Such continual efiart for me 10 get
along. My life seems continual
struggle, just for the sake Of life, y
and here Jane began. to cry,
"Whatfa fuss about, ;little, dust
on the carpet, SNAPPED the husband.
"No, it's not merely lhet;Y Yrstofted
the wife, in a cryiag.ton 4bnt you
never seem, 10 care he& hafd and
trying things may bsitsf me- You
care nothing for ny pleasure or ease.
You know very&efd wouldn't mind
the carpet once, but ies, just so about
everything. The man who shook
the carpets last week said he never
should have thought that they had
been taken up every year ifhe hadn't
been told SO, for he hadn't shaken
such dirty ones for four years. Now,
why should our house be SO much
dirtier than other people's2 You
know it's not my fault. for I'm as
particular as anybody"
You've got new saddle for your
hobby, and there'll be no end to your
riding it, just because that old fellow
wanted to make fool of you, and
get the job of shaking your carpets
twice year"
"But William" said Jane, putting
down the handkerchief from hsreyes,
iss,hYidon,t;yea DO. a..inass aarafal2-
When / try SO hard to got along and
keep things nice you needn't make
so much work. Dear me, to have to
live with such a person! 1t would
have been better for US both if we
never had met"
Hercupon the husband, William,
departed, leaving Jane to cry it out
alone. She sobbcd awhile quite
heartily, and made herself believe
she was the most unappreciated, un-
fortunate and miserable Of beings;
then, like a good housewife, she be-
gan to think.
"What good does all this do2 lam
making myself sick for nothing-my
eyes will feel so badly that 1 can't
sew" So she wisely rose up and
bathed them, brushed up her carpet,
and set down to her needle-work.-
But she was not in good mood, nor
repentant, nor forgiving, nor cheer
full, nor even pacific.
She was in little better feeling
when she met her husband at dinner,
but was quite in the humor 10 make
demands and let her grievances be
manifest. The carving was hardly
over when she began:
"William did you see about having
the stove cleaned and lined this
morning? Bridget says she cannot
cook with it any longer as it is, and
it makes her so cross | can hardly
manage her.
"No, hadn't timo," was the lacon-
ic answer.
"Hadn't timel I guess you could
have found time if you'd tried-Ive
no idea you ever thought of it. If
you cared anything for other people
you'd think of them and find time to
see to things, You find time for
your own matters.
"You seem to know so much, why
do you ask me? Perhaps you'd bet
er see so your affairs yourself"
"What hadn't l better do? / do
almost everything now, yet you new
er seem satisfied. ] suppose | can
90 to the stove store, since you don't
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