The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-20
A DECEIVED WIFE,

| A very curious incident has happened in
Tuscarora-a town situated in one of the
Western States, though it is not necessary to
specify which. There was young lady who
last fall married Mr.. Orlando Valentine, and
thereby filed all the other Tuscarora young
ladies with envy. Mr.. Valentine was not
supposed to be rich. but he was thought 10
be extremely handsome. In fact, prior to
his marriage it was frequently remarked of
him by the unmarried ladies of Tuscarora
that he was too nice for anything. Last
week the parents of Mrs. Valentine
were astonished by the return of their
daughter to the parental roof, and
her announcement that Mr.. Valentine, who
had suddenly disappeared, was wretch of
the deepest aniline dye. Further inquiry as
to the precise nature of Mr.. Valentine's
iniquity disclosed the startling fact that
instead of being nice young man, he was
wicked, deceitful, horrid woman, who had
committed some terrible crime in Colorado,
and had worn male attire and married q
wife in order to successfully conceal her
identity.
The deceived wife's story was an interest
ing and pathetic one. She had been mar
ried long time before she discovered the
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her suspicious that all was not right, and
that there was mystery connected with the
pretended Mr.. Valentine, were early
awakened. She noticed that as the
honeymoon waned Mr.. Valentine con-
tinued to treat her with unvarying polite
ness and affection. She was o young
woman, but she was, nevertheless, intelli-
gent enough to know that this was unusual.
Her husband found no fault with the length
of time that she required in order to dress
herself for church or for an afternoons
drive, and never once remarked that he
wished she would not lie all day in getting
herself ready. He always 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
collars and laces was 50 unlike the average
husband 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
began to keep house together, things
constantly occurred which startled
and alarmed the bride. She
found that Mr.. Valentine
never left his clothes at night lying on the
floor, but carefully folded them, and while
he invariably hung his coat on the gas fix
ture, he as invariably hung his stockings ON
the back of . chair. Mrs. Valentine had
friends who were married, and she knew
perfectly well that q married man always
throws his coat on the seat of . chair, and
losses his stockings carelessly on the floor.
It is not strange that she began to doubt her
husbands sanity. and to ask herself whether
it was safe for her to live with . man of
such ominously neat habits To see him
brushing his hair.before putting out the gas
sent cold chill through her. Az she after
ward remarked, no woman could have seen
Mr.. Valentine holding the comb in his
mouth, and holding the hair on the back Of
his head with one hand while he brushed it
with the other, without having her blood
run cold.
During the eight months of her married
life, Mrs Valentine was never once told by
her husband that the breakfast was not fit
to eat, or that she might have sense enough
to get him something decent for dinner.
On the contrary, whenever she asked him
if his breakfast or dinner was satisfactory
to him. he always replied that he v1s sure
it was very nice indeed. thank you. No
matter how hard and faithfully she tried,
she could not make him dissatisfied With his
home. He submitted to the weekly recur
renee Of washing day IS though he regarded
it as . necessary evil. instead of deliberate
and unprovoked outrage upon the male sex.
He never accused her of hiding his clothing
and other things and always
seemed to know instinctively the
use of closets and to comprehend that when
several garments were hung on the same
hook. each and every one cannot be hung
ON the outside Of the other. When button
vas missing from one of his shirts. he
would calmly ny. my dear, there seems to
be button wanting there. Shall y0u or /
sew 1t onT Many time did that neglected
and heazt-broken wife, whose soul yeaxned
for = substantial marital oa4h, and Who
waited-Oh! % vearily-to - her husband
czumple up . clean shirt and dance On Il,
sadly get her needle and thread md ~ On
button. while Nr. Valentine smiled h .
peaceful and lowing way upon her. Al ths
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