Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-09-07

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iniqaisy disclosed the startling fses
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esssfully csSoeh Acr i3<stisy-
Th< scoeived uifes st1ry Gas an inser-
es,ing &ai pathetic ce<- sh< had s<en
narrsei . isng tune h<fsxc sh< discovered
the true character a her sli-xed hssssss4.
but her suspsesses fha, ali ~&s not night.
and that there Gas . myxs-ry consectci
with the p-efesiet Mr.. vslenfine, uere
early asake1ed. Sue nosscrd thai ~ the
hssxymoou vanei Mr.. ysiensiae c-a
tinaed % sse4f her wifh unvNrying polite
mesa and afxrctioa- Soc wxs q yOang
woman, bot she wzx. severtheiess, ini<lli-
gent enough 90 know that this wss IN
usual. Hes husband found NO fsnlt with
the length of time that she required in
order Co dress herself for church 0r icr an
sftesnoo drive, aud never osee re-
marked that he wished she would not be
all day in getting herself ready. He al
ways packed her trunk for her, and the
way in which he folded her dresses and
avoided packing boots and ink bottles
in the immediate neighborhood Of collas-
and laces, Was so unlike the sversgehu 8
band that she could not avoid feeling that
there was something radically wrong
about the supposed man. When the pair
returned from their wedding trip, and be-
gan to keep house together things con-
stantly occurred which startled and
alarmed the bride. She found that Mr..
Valentine never left bis clothes at night
yiBg on the floor, but carefully folded
them, and while be invariably hung his
coat on the gas fixtures, he as invariably
hung his hat on the back of chair.
Mrs. Valentine had friends who were
married, and she knew perfectly we'll that
a married man always throws his coat on
the seat of a chair and losses his stock.
ings carelessly on the floor. 1t is moi
strange that she began to doubt her hus.
bands sanity, and ask herself whether il
was safe for her to live with q man with
such ominously neat habits. To see him
brushing his hair before putting out the
gas sent cold chill through her. As she
afterwards remarked, NO woman could
have seen Mr.. Valentine holding the cont
in his mouth, and holding the hair on thu
back of his head with one hand while ht
brushed it with the other, without having
her blood run cold.
During the eight months of her mar
ried life, Mrs.. Valentine WAS never oncl
|stold 81 her husband that the breAkfsa
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sense enough to get him something to
dinner. On the contrary, whenever sh
uskvGl him IL his breakfast or, dinner va
satisfactory to him he always replied tina
he was sure it was very nice, indeed
thank you. No matter how hard ant
faithfully she tried she could not maxi
him dissatisfied with his home. He sub
mitted to the weekly recurrence Of wash
ing day as though he regarded 1t as
necessary evil, instead of deliberate an(
unprovoked outrage upon the male sex
He never accused her Of hiding his cloth
ing and other things and always seemed
to know instinctively the use Of closets
and to comprehend that when several gar
ments were hung on the same hook, each
and every one cannot he hung on the out
side of the other. When button was
missing from one of the shirts he woult
calmly say, my dear, there seems to b.
button wanting here. Shall you or
sew it on2" Many time did that neg
lected and heart broken wife, whose SOU
yearned for substantial marital oath
and who -aited-Oh! SO wearily-to se'
her husband crumple up clean shirt and
dance on it, sadly get her needle and
thread and sew on button, while Mr.
Valentine smiled in peaceful and loving
way upon her. As the days and weeks
went on, the feeling that he was not like
other men grew upon her, and she passee
the greater part of her time in tears.
OF course Mr.. Valentine never smoked
He said that it was an Objectionable
practice and that it spoiled the curtains
Likewise, he never drank anything, ant
belonged to neither lodge nor club. HI
always spent his evenings at home, anc
Mrs. Valentine is prepared to swear sh'
never saw him read . newspaper at tn
breakfast table, and that in fact on tn
only occasion on which she ever knew hin
to look at any newspaper he was looking
| at the list Of deaths and marriages. VIII
can tell what anguish this wretch's IN
manly conduct inflicted upon his limo
cent wifea One day she went, In despera'
ton to her pastor and begged him to cal
her - fool" explaining that - b
| vas minister be could, OF course. u.s.
the expression in purely theological an'
| innocent gay. When the horri6ed pasto
asked her Why she made such request
abe confessed, with the tears streaminI
from her eye, tina. dv:s . neslecss'
wife, and that her hsSband newer spoe