Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-23

| find fault and scold about something; tn,
| children had left a stick on the grass or some
thing had been done or not done of about tn.
same consequence, and 30 matter what l wal
doing, or what part of the house I was in,
must drop everything and come and listen te
| his complaints, and go at once and remedy the
fault. As for our meals, they were seasons OF
torture, those that we were obliged to take
with him.. Our breakfasts We always, until the
last month of my stay at home, had in
peace, for his was either served to him in bed
| or he took it at much later hour and alone
often taking it when our lunch was prepared:
| have often taken his breakfast to him myself
and at all hours in the forenoon, preferring to
| do it in order to keep the servants from com.
planning 80 continually about having to keep
the breakfast table standing till noon. We
lunched at noon usually, but he seldom came
to his lunch until very late. sometimes two and
three O'clock, and often not at all. So after
years of waiting until all hours in the after
| noon finally, out of justice to my children
and regard for my servants, had a regular hour
appointed for LUNCH and when it was ready all
members of the household who were there par.
took. Then the table was always cleared of all
soiled dishes and nicely fixed and left for him,
toar, six o'clock, he, as l said before, often
not coming home to lunch at all. As for din
ner, we have often waited for him until
after the ohildren's bed hour, and then
he not putting in an appearance, would
eat our dinner without him. must acknowl-
edge we were always glad of this opportunity,
for we always approached the dinner table with
fear and great dread, knowing from bitter ex-
perienee that it would be anything but a
pleasant meal, for he invariably made it a
point to find fault with everything on the
table and scold continually from the time We
sat down until we left it, SO much SO that the
servants disliked to come in to wait upon the
k4hlo I have never neO1ecte6 INV h0uuoho11
duties and have read very few books, especial
ly in the last three years, as I have not had
the time. Besides attending to my household
duties have done all the sewing and mending
(Which was nearly enough to keep one person
busy for my three children, MIR. H., the house
sewing and my own. In the last year I have
had the assistance of seamstress four days,
which certainly has left me very little time for
fancy work. In reply to Gents affidavit, will
merely say that he was very trying child to
get along with, and was nearly always en-
couraged by his father in disobeying me, so
much SO that for the last few years have been
very careful about making any requests of
him that could possibly be refused. His father
taugh BIT him not to respect me, and often told
him in my presence not TO pay any attention to
what I said. It is false that he or his father
mended their own clothes, for they never did
always attended to Mr.. H's and Minnie to
her brothers. I feel very confident that if my
should, his sister Minnie would have been the
first to resent it, but she never did, on the con-
trary, she was constantly trying to make him
do differently.
Mr.. H. was constantly in the habit of coming
home under the influence of liquor and often
intoxicated. He kept very late hours, some
times not coming home until morning. He has
taken particular pains to get affdavits on that
point from people who had no possible
way of knowing anything of the
matter. Nearly all the gentlemen
are strictly temperance men themselves and
would never in any way be thrown with him at
such times. He was always very careful to
keep away from his Office until he had recover
ed from the effects of the same, and generally
remained in bed, greatly to the neglect of his
business. 1t was generally my habit to lie
awake at night until he came in, unless he re-
manned out too late, and certainly know that
he more often came in unsteady than other
wise. On several occasions he has come in near
six o'clock (our dinner hour) and Immediately
fallen asleep in the rocking chair, and on one
occasion it was impossible to awaken hin. for
dinner SO that was obliged to keep his dinner
until late in the evening for him. It is quite
remarkable Gent should know so much about
his night habits, as he was avery sound sleeper,
it being almost impossible to awaken him as
very well know by experience, having tried it
on several occasions when it was necessary for
some one to go to the door. I have on several
occasions asked him if he heard his father
come in at night and he would always reply
no, never hear anything after go to bed. 1
could mention any quantity of occasions in
which Mr.. II. allowed his temper 20 get the
better of him; in fact, it was an almost daily
occurrence. He would fly into the greatest
passion about the least thing, and constantly
before the little children. who would always
avoid him at such times and escape from the
room. They, have often told me when was
them in he0 at fhero
any dinner papa was SO cross" On one &C.
casion. last fall when bis papa was in a rage
about the grocery bill and had in his anger
torn up the pass book and threatened me with
being kicked out, etc., if ever dared to make
another bill, Harmon begged of me not to 60
ting him to bed, as he was afraid he would hurt
me-. They were constantly in the habit of See
ing exhibitions of his temper, such as kicking
over the chair In the dining room if the wrong
one happened to be put at his place, and
throwing the cushion into the bath-tub full of
water because there did not happen to be pin
on it, and throwing the match-safe out of the
window because it did not chance to be
just where he though it ought to be.
did lot leave the defendants bed to sleep
T Ys3s. my sister when she came to visit us in
her daughter, or soon after, said daughter wish
ing to sleep with Minnie, I changed and went
to sleep with my sister. have before related
the facts as they are in regard to being kicked
out of bed, and Mr.. II. and Gents version of
the matter are false; the poor child knew very
little of the affair any way, as he did not ap-
pear upon the scene until was leaving the
room, and then he was terribly frightened, SO
much 10 that he followed me into Minnie's
room where he remained for long time before
daring to 60 to his own room again. He even
spent most of the time in the closet with the
door ready to pull too in case his father made
his appearance, and upon hearing noise in the
closet he jumped as if he had been shot and
exclaimed, "Oh! thought twas papa cominsw
He has always stood in awe and great fear of
his father, and dreaded his coming home as
much as the rest of us, and would often remark
on the difference of his fathers treatment to
him and that IF other boys fathers to them.
BE was not in the habit, in fact, never did pun
ish his children as q reasonable person would
have done, but would fly at them in the most
terrible rage for sim pie things that he would
not considered as anything had he not been in
passion, and at other times allow more seri-
Gus offenses of Gents to pass by unnoticed.
For instance, ordering him away from the din
ner table one evening and driving him from
the house without his dinner because he had
failed to get some potatoes he had told him to
in time for said dinner. I have often remon-
strated with MIR. H., in former times, upon the
bad example he was setting Gent, and the
temptation he was leading him into by such
free use of liquors in the house, but he would
reply that be supposed begrudged them to
Gent, he did not, and was willing he should
have what he wanted of them, so said no
more about it until last spring Mr.. n. came
home the evening of Gents and John Rico's
departure for the farm and remarked that Mr.
friend of his, had given the boys good send
off in the shape Of a bottle Of whisky, and
, was very much astonished that regretted it
and could not feel as thankful for IT, IN HIS
friend as he did-but to the best of my belief
he did after time look at it in something of
the same light as myself and write Gent that
his mother was grieved about the whisky.