Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-06-10
3 CREDULOUS WOMAN.
From the Intef-Occan.l

nv wife Is q woman or wonderful
faith. IF the standard of an average
person is grain of mustard seed,
then [ could sonscientiously say my
vife's faith is equal to a Hubbard
squash. She is certainly a woman Of
whom it can be said, she walks by
faith and not by sight. To attempt
to tell Of all that she believes in would
require more time than | have at my
disposal. or ever hope to have. [
might mention Of hand, that she be-
iieyes ia the truthfulness of the daily
papers, in the iuco5ruptibility of poll
ticisns, in Beecher, in Bob Ingorsoll.
III Barnuu and in-me!
When circumstances compel me to
leave her between the acts at the ope-
"a, and I return with a Glove between
my teeth, ramaEk;ng that [ had a
teotSache, horses could not compel her
to doubt that Glove. When [ am late
home, and incidentally remark that [
had customer who was going out on
iste train, and I kept him company,
orr minister could not shake her faith
in that customer, not even though he
was Ready to swear that, with his own
eyes, lie saw me come from the club.
In this respect she is model wife,
and / would advise the manageable
young men to search for a copy.
But there are occasions where she
ia prosokiagly taken In by her fellow
creatures There is not a tramp be-
tween Chicago and New York who does
Rot have oar house very prominently
displayed Of his map. / fancied at
enc tina there mast be marks about
the street pointing TO our back door,
and a. great expense for wine, cigars,
and oysters, [ had an ordinance passed
by our City Council to have every tree
and place Of board for three squares
on each side of me whitewashed or
painted j; but it has done no good, the
traMrs come in droves as they always
did.
While painting my own fence I
came across some hieroglyphics on a
hack gate that looked suspicious, and
I covered them with six coats Of paint,
rejoicing all the while at thus getting
Que dairy cut Of the way. But my
ice man brought suit against me the
next day for destroying his account
against Us. and before [ could arrange
to defend | found lie had been to see
my wife who had settled the matter
with him. When she showed me the
receipt in full, and begun to expiate
OF the more Christian way of peace
fully aEbitrating than Of going to law,
I endeavoyed to show her that it was
morally impossible that we could have
used l3S IA pounds of ice every day
for seven months, but she would not
listen to me. That odd one quarter
Is wkat binds her faith to the ice man
IL IS evidences to her that he is a con-
scientious man.
While she is woman who has the
very highest respect for the laws, SO
much 50 that sac allows the cook to
give her fayofite policeman a warm
supper every night, and the nurse girl
TO give her favorite a warm dinner ev-
cry day, still no man can whisper
smagglel goods to her but that she be-
gios so fiageF her purse. We have as
maay linen towels and sheets laid
away fer the time that our girl shall
be married as ever Mrs. ToodIes had
for the future Mrs Thompson ''with a
p" [ have taken her to Writer'S and
had him show her that her Irish linen
was bought fro.a him at about one.
half what she paid for it, but she
smiled at me on our way home as il
she really piticd me for letting my
eetf be gul!ed by such story.
We have thirteen patent lamp burn.
ers now laid away on one of the libra
y shelves. What earthly good they
can ever be to us [ DO not know, fol
we hsye 10 lamps and have no thought:
os changing from gas to oil. But my
wife has seen some good reason why
she should buy thea, and | am deter
mined to let her go on SO [ can form a
cabinet TO show the steady improve
saeat IN i1nip-burners.
I have had reason to rejoice thai
Jewe,ry .as cheap. Our religious pa
psrs have been full of advertisement;
O. 50 cent solid gold thimbles aud 2;
cent diamond studs. What she NIGH
have thought if those advertisement:
had bean in any other class of paper!
! cannot tel, but being in our church
Journals there could be no doubt abou
them. She sent for bracelet for thu
babe handsomely chased. solid gol5
Sna only sent to the subscribers o
ta;s paper" was the way the adver
tise;ncas read and al for Sl.05 L
came and was pnt on the baby at onct
with inuch feminine joy. Our baby
is at the age when she delights Ii
pattins everything between her teeth.
She put heI wrist In her mouth, ant
when next we SAW the bracelet tn
'solid ge!l' was sticking to the ba.
by's teeth while the ''handsomel,
ehased bracelet was as black as m,
boots. I suggested suing the owner
of the religious paper, but she prompt
~ informed me that she did not blam'
thsm st all nor any one else,
7 was getting reconci.ed to all thes
mishaps, for the money she wasted il
her own. and she has a right to d,
what she likes with it, but every now
and then j find her taken in by suel