Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-17
THE GUARDIAN.
A Deceived Wife.

city which. There was Young
lady who last fall married Mr.
Orlando Valentine, and thereby
Mled all the other Tuscarora
youngladies with envy. MI. VA
entine was not supposed 10 INC
yicb, but be was thought to be3ex'
treuely handsome. In fact, prior II !
his marriage, il was. frequently re-
marked Of him by the unmarried la
dies of Tuscarora that he was Just
too nico for anything. Last week
the parents of Mrs. Valentine We're
astonishcG by the return of their
daughter to the parental roof and
her announcement that Mr. Nalcn'
tine who had suddenly disappeared,
was wretch of the deepest analinc
dye. Further inquiry rs to the pre-
else nature of Mr.. Valentines lniqul'
~ disclosed tho startling fact that
instead of being nice young man,
he was u wicked, ,lcccitlul, horrld wo.
man, who had committed some ter
riblc crime in Colorado, and had
worn masculine garments and mar.
ricd wife in order to successfully
conceal her ldcnlty.
The deceived wifc'S story was an
interesting and pathetic one. She
WAS married 4 long time before sh"
discovered the true character OF her
alleged husband, but her suspicious
that AL was not right, and that
there WAS u mystery connected with
the pretended Mr.. Valentine, were
early awakened. She noticed that
~ the honeymoon wancd Mr. Val.
cntiuc continued to treat her with
nnyarS ing polltcncSs aud affection.
She WAS % young woman. but she
Was nevertheless intelligent enough
10 know that thus was unusual. Her
husband found no fault with the
length of time that she required Al
order Ia dress herself for church or
for IN afternoons drive, and never
once remarked that hc wished she
would not be all day IN getting her
sell ready. Ac always packed her
trunk Tor her, and the way III which
hc folded her dresses and avoided
packing boots and ink bottles IN
the immediate ncighborhood of C"l
Ers and laccs VAS 50 unlike the av.
cragc husband that she could not
avoid feeling that there was some
thing radically wrong about the
supposed man. When the pair IL
turned from their Wedding trip,
and began Ia keep house together,
things constantly occurred which
startled and alarmed the bride. She
found that Mr.. Valentine never left
his clothes ut night lying on the
floor, but carefully folded them, and
while he invariably hung his
coat on the gas fixture, he as inva-
riably hung his stockings on the
back of u chair. Mrs. Valentine
has friends who were married, and
she knew perfectly well that a mar.
ricd man always throws his coat
on the seat OF chair, and losses
his stockings carclcsslS on the floor.
1t is not strange that she began TO
doubt her husbands sanity, and 10
ask herself whether 1t was safe for
her to live with man of such ON.
inously neat habits. TO sec him
brushing his hair before putting
out the gas sent n cold chill through
her. AS she aftcrward remarked,
no woman could have seen Mr..
Valentine 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 e,
or that she might have sense enough
70 get HIM something decent for
dinner. On the contrary. when CIV.
sr she asks him if his breakfast or
dinner was satisfactory to him, he
always replied that he was sure il.
was very nice indeed, thank Won.
No matter how hard and faithfully
she tried, she could not make Inn
dissatisfied with his home. lie
submitted to the weekly recurrence
of washing day as though hc re
garded II as ancccSsary evil. instead
OF a deliberate and unprovokcd out.
rage upon the male sex. He mover
accused her of hiding his clothing
and other things, and always seem
ed to know instinctivcly the Use OF
closets and to comprehend that
when several garments were hung
on the Same hook. each and overv
one cannot he hung on the outside
81 the others. When button was
missing from one of his shirts, he