The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
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with vim and am proud to know the truth,
earnestness and vim of the letter under con-
sideration is characteristic of woman. You
say there are more happy marriages and good
men than otherwise. Possibly, for it all de-
ponds upon the shade of meaning different
people apply to the words happy" and
/ = good" I'll just mention two cases out OF
dozens / know. Both are women of
| the meek, tender-hearted. angelic char
acter, who never speak an uDkind
| word. One of them, her husband denies
everything, makes her work beyond her
strength, curses her if she is idle, and few
times has Hpatted her until he left black and
blue marks. The other woman supports her
family and husband by dressmaking. while he
is at home which is most of the time, as he
never lifts finger to do ANYTHING but beat the
children. He is everlastingly growing and If
! ever he once spoke kindly, l should think he,
was going insane. These wives say they are so
happy, and their husbands are so good, and, it
may be, quite probably is a fault of my intel
lect or education, that fail to see any especial
happiness and goodness in such marriages and
men. ! am sorry / cannot, for / have long
known that the particular part of my body that
keeps my blood in circulation is too soft ever to
enjoy other peoples misery. believe
it is seldom; one ever tells real troubles. 1t is
I far best to dance in sunshine on the graves of
| bitter death, and save yourself a stab In the
| back The world carries beautiful face, and
society may be, OIL so sympathetic and tender.
but they are vampires that draw your deepest
/ hearts blood and smile upon you SO pitifully.
| Go tell your griefs to the winds and the waves,
| the birds and the flowers who are His own am
/ bassadors they will never betray nor mock you
| as will he who was made in the image of God.
| +, i wonder why it is that some women who are
| happy in their own family are SO selfish and
/ uisympathetic toward those who are not? Il As
| if they themselves were being requited de-
seryediyo and the unhappy ones We're being
| punished for some terrible SIM and the happy
| ones rather enjoyed their misery. Because Ihad
married a man too good to live minute, and
was happy, would not prove to me that every
woman had done the same, nor prove that /
4 was any better than any other woman, but
| simply that had an extra-grand stroke of luck
| in the lottery of matrimony. And why do
few truths, a very few truths, belttle men and
hurt one more than it helps for telling them2
Is it because truth Is SO bitter we
all hate it and love lies If lodging the truth
makes friends for us, | am not too old to learn
| that yet, for we all want to be liked. But amt
that the same principle society follows in giving
! the hand to VILLAIN because it has its advan-
age-the Same that makes the world smile upon
| libertine and sh,ln his victim? I do not know
that good men and happy marriages are in the
generality, unless you count all like those
1 mentioned above, but you mistake me when you
/ intimate 1 am railing at true and good women,
| or that they were not in a majority. | never
| thought Of such thing, and therein
lies my Il weakness, perhaps. / know
/ so . MANY pure, "A true, noble women
| tied to miserable, worthless men, it makes me
scold to hear a lot of men making great par
ade over few trifing faults of women when
they might better spend their time aiming to-
correct a few hundred greater faults on their
own side of the house, or even go out and saw
1 a few sticks of wood for their sisters or wives.
Again, you understand me, l disapprove of so
much devotion. & That man" may be as de-
voted as he pleases and I'll help him. 4 assure
i YOU but. when he insists on my doing all the
s'devotion," and must feel myself favored if
he condescends to smoke in my face, and growl
at me because his boots are not BACKED, and
1 goes off to the theater alone, or takes some
other lady, because my dress is shabby, and he
won't pay me any wages nor turn me off SO
| can work elsewhere and dress better, that's
| the kind of devotion don't approve of, and SO
! de not you. u H9s8 s. t.tj.8f ~
/ j Smoke seems to be under consideration.
Smoke isn't the mostagreeable way in the world
of being picked, and it isn't apt to preserve
one as sweetly as salt and water. L prefer
being sIlgar-cured and always let all my sweet
hearts smoke, provided they keep my hands
and mouth full of chocolate-drops while they
] smoke, and shall let all my husbands smoke
with the same conditions. If that is extraya-
! CANT and hurtful, SO is tobacco, and we will be
I quits Now is that not fair? RAVEN HAIR =
i ELLA, Wis. uAW m i#@ f.y ~
+ e {4 Country Letter. gig ih
At any time from to s in the morning
| you can hear the iron-tongued q want
to make everything prosy) bell sounding over
/ hill and dale, awaking the farmer boys and
/ girls to their wonted tasks. It's all very nice
and healthy and all that sort of thing, to those
who are accustomed to such habits of early
| rising, but the individual who has usual
reclined on a snowy couch until about the hours
of or in the morning would consider such
| health-proyoking proceedings as somewhat
! premature" Tasks are assigned to the
/ young men and maidenS and the way business
is pushed forward with vigorous strides would
be a fine example of industry for the drones in
the hive of energy and application.
! We have some country pleasures, too. 1t is
considered jolly to get behind fleet courser in
! good buggy and dash up and down through
shady by-ways and fower-bedecked avenues
after, of course, genial g Old Sol had conclud-
! ed to retire for the evening. There are three
| things required to make such exercise as this
/ enjoyable. First, good horse and buggy
second, good road and pleasant evening
third land this is most essential, it requires
| being of the gentler sex, who can be relied on
| to help hold the horses, should they attempt to
run away, and assist in guiding the umbrella in
a proper position to shield the pleasure-seekers
| from the ssoorching rays OF. the sun. Here is
where the great mistake in life is made. Many
a country boy has wrecked all his hopes, de-
stroyed his future happiness, and sunk down in
| to the lowest decline of bachelordom what
/ ever disease that may be-simply because he
! tried to carry his own umbrella. In Their philo
| sophical minds it never occurred to them that
/ the assistance of lady IL absolutely necessary
| and essential to the success of the achievement
! We have picnics in the country that is, the
young people do. The season has been very
prolific thus far. It is presumed that this fact
| is due on account of the ladies availing
themselves of their leap-year rights The la
dies do the inviting and bake the cakes, and
| the boys buy the candy and lemonade and hire
| the buggies. 1t is usually most delightful oc-
casion: and the natural result is a tendency to
consult the proper county official for the legal
documents authorizing the establishment of a
matrimonial association, generally consisting of
a President and Vice President as the charter
members. They are also occasionally product
/ i've of 6 Inttens," something that the state of
| the Thermometer would scarcely warrant. Many
| other little incidents of pleasure and folly,
wise, ludicrous and otherwise, might be noted,
but the present condition of the mercury COS
/ deg. in the shade) will not permit.
| OLEANDER SYKES, ESQ.
/ GRAYsvILLE, Pa.
| Destructive Plant Insects.
/ Some one asks how to destroy verInin
on house plants, or, better, how to pre-
vent them coming on. The most common in
! sect attacking house plants is the aphis or
green fly. 1t is generally found on the newly
formed shoots of soft-wooded plants such as
Roses and Heliotropes.. In all well-regulated
greenhouses this pest should never be seen, be-
cause it can be prevented by the use of tobacco
l Our plan is to burn dampened tobacco stems
which we get from the cigarmakers, thoroughly
fumigating the greenhouse twice each week.
Hot Goals are laid upon the greenhouse walks,
{ he dampened stems put upon them, and in a
| few minutes the greenhouse is full of smoke
1 The amateur florist in most cases cannot use
this remedy, but tobacco may be stepped In
water until of the color of weak tea and the so
1 luton sprinkled on the plants twice week, or
busting of snuff viii prove tfectnal
/ Ny correspondent says in her letter that on
examining the under side of the leaves of some
| of her plants she discovered immense quanti-
| ties of very minute spiders. This IL the red
| spider always found in great abundance in a
hot and dry temperature. The remedy is simple
Keep the plants always well sprinkled for pre-