The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-21

make up. Does your wages more than sup
port you as you live now Z" blushed as
much as q man can as / answered, NO
How am to get my dinner dresses, etc, after
we have tnarried7' That question so nom
plussed me that took up my hat and said
would tell her next Sunday evening, and
went home thoroughly demoralized. Now
was so muddled by that question that
was two days getting my head clear enough
to figure up my weekly expenses. When
called again 1 was quite respondent for
had not been able TO make Sl9
week do more than keep US, whether we
boarded or kept house after we were married.
After I had confessed my inability to salts
factorily answer her question, she asked me
if would want to marry her il she fire.
quented liquor saloons, drank whiskey and
lager, chewed tobacco and smoked cigars2
opened my eyes wide and answered, Ger
tainly not? Then why should marry
youf You do these thing was quite in
dignant that man right to drink, smoke
and carouse should be 80 plainly questioned,
and holly replied, that if she was so partic-
ular, of course we could never agree, and
took my hat TO go. thinking that like most
Young women she would apologize for her
| plain and, as most men would call it, insult
| ing speech. But went out the door. and
she took up the Danbury News and began
| reading about the Nelson street man, and
| paid no further attention to me. Now,
| here's go, muttered, as stumbled along
the sidewalk You had better look out
where YOU 60 angrily shouted man whom
| l ran hard against. Il beg pardon, said.
'Halloo, Alt, Is it your Has little Zepher
been blowing you up2 You stagger along
as though you were drunk. Take cigar
and let US go into the den, and see the boys
| Thank you,' replied; there's something
| the matter with me that only a good sleep
sleep will cure After had recovered my
reasoning powers the question, how to sup
| port wife and himself on SlOa week
and why should woman consent to marry
| a man who prefers saloon company, whisky,
and tobacco to his wife's society, kept press
/ ing for a solution. After living a month
| LIQUOR, found l had nearly $50
besides my general health was vastly
better. But still l could not be-
| gin to make out enough TO
support wife in the style L know Zepher
was accustomed TO. | called on her one
evening and said was ready to admit that
a woman ought to demand the same purity
| of character and ulexceptionables social habits
| in husband that he expected in wiie, but
| how to live in proper style on $40 a
week was beyond my comprehension She
i gave me a book to read which she said would
| solve the mystery, and told me to keep clear
| of liquors and tobacco for year, and study
hard on the problem of married life econo
| mics. l understood that / was on trial.
| During the year we were often together at
her home, walking and riding, but said moth
ing about mans or woman's rights. The
book contained scientific solution OF the
problem of correct living. 1t convinced me
that could support a wife in respectable
manner on $40 week. When
| the year was up l asked her
again to be my wife. She asked me what my
| income and expense had been the past year.
1 answered $500 and $500. WELL said she,
| Il earned in the same time by making gen.
tlemen's vests 5000 and spent $3.50. Will
you Do content to have me continue to sup
| port myself in the same manner2 Take par
ticular notice, l don't say support you. My
womsns rights education won't let me make
a pauper of my husband, nor let me be mas
ter of his earnings OF course L readily
agreed to such an arrangement, and laugh
ingly said that l should be ever 80 much de.
| lighted to go arm in arm with her and vote
together if we agreed party wise, or to pail
off If she proved to be Democrat and 8
Republican. No bargaining, sir. We viii
vote our convictions, said she, laying bel
forefuger emphaticallY in the palm Of bel
left hand"
All liqour-loving, cigar-smoking Repub
lican and Democratic politicians consider
Mrs. Zepher Winsomes strong-minded wo
man