The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-12-27


And l brandished my new six
ty-two cent umbrella wildly about
her. She took the umbre la away
from me, and locked me up in the
clothes>pre>s.
| am quick to draw al infer
ence, and the Inference [ drew
was that | was not a success as a
reOrganizrr of female women.
After this changed my tactics.
| let her have her own way, and
the plan worked to charm from
the very first. It's the best way
of managing wife that l know
of. OF course this is between me
and YOU.
So when my wife said she was
bound to go off on d bridal tour
anyhow, | cordially consented.
Go Matilda,' said |, 'and stay
as long as you want to, then, if
you feel as though you would like
to Stay a little while longer, stay,
my dear, stay
She told me to stop talking, and
go upstairs and get her red fan
nel nlght-cap and that bag of pen
nyrOyal foT her Aunt Abigail.
My wife is a very smart woman.
She was IA Baxter, and the Bax-
tens are a very smart family in
deed. He mother, who is going
on eighty, can try more slarjacks
now than half those primped up
city girls who rattle on the piano
or else walk the streets with their
furbelows and tixings, pretending
to get mad if a youth looks at 'em
pretty hard, but getting mad in
earnest if you don't notice them
at all.
All girls amt what they used
to be when | was young, and the
fellows are worse still. When |
went courting, for instance, l
never thought of staying till afte,
ten o'clock, and ouly went twice
a week. Now they go seven
nights in the week, and cry be-
cause there amt eight. Then
they write touching notes to each
other during the day. ''Dear
George, do you love me as much
now as you did at quarter past
twelve last night? Say you do,
dearest, and it will give me cour-
age to go down to dinner and tack
le them cold beans left over from
yesterday."'
Well, well, l suppose they en-
| joy themselves, and it amt for
us old folks, whose hearts are a
little calloused by long wear. to
interfere. Let them get togeth
er and court if they like it-and
l think they do. l was forty
seven when l courted my present
wife, but it seemed just as nice to
sit ou little cricket at her feet
and let her smooth NY hair as it
did thirty years ago
AS I said before, my wife is a
very smart woman, but she could
not be anything else and be a
Baxter. She used to give lee,
lures on woman's rights, and in
one place where she lectured 4
big college conferred the title OF
L. L. d., on her. But she would
not take it, ''No, gentleman,' she
said, "give it to the poor" She
was always just SO charitable
She gave my boys permission tt
60 barefoot all winter, and insist
ed upon it SO much in her kin,
way that they couldn't refuse.
| She fairly dotes on my children
and I've seen her many a tim'
go to their trowsers pockets ant
take out their pennies, after they't
go to sleep, and pnt them 10 he
bureau drawer for fear they nigh
lose them.
II 4
| l started to tell you about m,
wife's bridal tour, but the fact i
[ never could find out much abou
it myself. | believe she had
good time. She came back i'm
proved in health, and l found out
| boforo clio hal hnnn in tho hons
twenty.four Lours, that she''
gained in strength also. l dom
say how | found it out, simpl
say l found it out. In conclusion
1 would say to al. young men
Marry your second wife first, ant
keep out of debt by all means
even if yon have to borrow none
to do il.