Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-05-19

out tomorrow
You! Where?'
oh. at Delmonico's. I'ye joined |
Woman's Rights Club, and we meet
there to organize
The deuce take woman's rightsv
calculated the irate husband.
of course don't believe IN them,
but it's the fashion to belong to a club,
and such nice place to go evenings.
am dull here evenings, Herbert
Herbert's heart smote him, but he
answered resolutelY:
L beg you will give up this ridicu-
lous idea. What do women want of
clubsG'
What men do, I suppose
But dou't approve of It ALL"
You belong 10 three clubs, Her
bert"
That's altogether a different matter
But why is it different?'
'Hem-why? Becauss-of course
anybody can see why-lts self-evident.'
L must be very blind said Mrs.
Ainscourt, demurely, but 1 coRfess l
can't discriminate the essential differ
ence.'
Herbert Ainscsurt said nothing more,
but he did not at all relish the change
that had lately come oyer the spirit OF
Dalsy's dream.
She did change, somehow. She went
out driving here, there and everywhere.
He never knew when he was certain Of
qdiet evening with her she Joined
not only that club, but innumerable
societies for a thousand purposes,
which took her away from home cou-
tinually. Mr.. Ainscourt chafed against
the new dispensatlon but il was useless.
Daisy always had an excuse to plead.
Presently her mether.in.law bore
down upon her, an austere old lady in
black satin and chestnut-brown wig.
Daisy you are making my sou
wretched."
"Am I?' cried Daisy. Dear me,
hadn't any idea of it! What's the
trouble p
You must ask him YOURSELF said
the mother-in. law. who belIeved-sen-
sible old lady-in young married peo'
ple's settling their own difficulties.
All l know is the bare fact
So Daisy went home to the drawing
room, where Herbert lay on the sofa
pretending TO read, but in reality brood
Ing over his troubles.
what's the matter, Herbert.' said
Daisy, kneeling on the floor beside
him, and putting her soft, cool hands
on his fevered brow.
The matter? Nothing much, only
am miserable, be sullenly answered.
But why she persisted.
Because you are so changed, Daisy
How am changedp
You are never at home; you have
lost the domestlcity which was. in my
eyes, your greatest charm. l never
have you to myself any more. Daisy
don't you see how this is emblttering
my lile?'
Does it make you unhappy che
asked, softly.
You know il does. Daisy"
And do you suppose 1 like it, Her:
bert?'
What do you mean?
Il mean that passed the first year
of my married life IN just such a Lone
some way. You had no domesticlty.'
Clubs, drives, billiard playing, aud
champagne suppers engrossed your
whole time. l, your wife pined at
home alone
But why didn't you tell me you
were unhappy
Because you have laughed at the
idea, and called 1t woman's whim.
resolved when we first married, to
fit:er away neither time nor breath in
idle complaints. / have not complain
ed; l have simply followed your exam.
pie. fit was not a good one, whose
fault was that'
Not yours Daisy; not yours
Il don't like this kind OF life, went
on Daisy. 1t is a false excitement
a hollow diversion but persisted in
it for the same reason, / suppose, that
you did-because it was the fashion.
Now tell me, Herbert. whether you
prefer fashionable wife or Daisyr
Daisy--a thousand times DaisyP
But Daisy can't get along with q
theatre-going, club-living husband
'Then she shall have husband who
finds his greatest happiness at bis own
hearthstone-whose wife is his dearest