The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-09-11
ONE OF THE "JINERs."
Experience OF n Woman Whose Husband
Took to Orders.

Took to Orders.
Quincy Modern Arso.'
She WAS about iorty-ive years old,
well dressed, had black hair, rather thin
and tingcd with gray, and eyes in which
cleaned the fires Of determination not
easily baked. She walked into Major
Husc'S office, in Patterns block, and re-
qucsted private interview, and having
obtained and satisfied herself that the
law students were not listening at the
kcyholc. said slowly, solcmnly and i'm.
prcsSivcly:
al want divorce"
"Whai for? supposed you had one
of the best Of husbands?" said the major.
al s'pose that's what everybody
thinks, bu, il they knew what I've suf-
fercd in ten years they'd wonder hadn't
scaldcd him long ago. ought to, but
for the sake OF the young ones I've
told him, though, what he might de-
pend on, and now the times come.
won't stand it, young ones or no young
ones I'll have 4 divorce, and If the
ncighbors want to blab themselves hoarse
about it they can, for won't stand it
another day"
"But what's the matter Don't your
husband provide for you? Don't he
treat YOU kindly" pursued the lawyer.
"We got victuals enough, and don't
know but he's as true and kind as men
in general, and he's never knocked none
OF us down. wish he had, then I'D
get him into Jail and know where he was
nights" rctor;cd the woman.
Then what's your complaint against
him ?"
"well, il you mus, know, he's one oi
them plaguey jiners."
"A what -
"A jiner-onc Of them pcsky fools
that's always jining something. There
can't nothing come along that's dark
and sly and hidden, but he'll jine it,
II anybody should get up 4 society to
burn his house down, he'd jine it just
as soon as he could get in and il he
had TO pay for it, he'd go all the sud
dcncr. We hadn't been married more'n
two months before he jined Know
kothin's. We lived on farm then,
and every Saturday night he'd come
tearin' in before supper grab a fist full
Of nut cakes, and go of gnawin' 'cm,
and that's the last I'd see of him till
morning. And every other night he'd
roll and tumble in his bed, and holler
in his sleep. Put none but Americans
on guarl-Georgc Washington : and
rainy days he would go out in the corn
barn and jab at picture of the Pope,
with an old haynet that was there.
ought to put my foot down then, but
he fooled me so with his lies about the
Popc's coming to make all the Yankee
girls marry Irishmen, and to cat up al
the babies that warn't born with cross
on their forehead, that let him go or
and encouraged him in it.
"Thcn he jincd the Masons. Prap:
you know what them be, but ] dom
cept they think they are the same kind
Of critters that built Solomon's Temple
and took care Of his concubines anC
Of all the darned nonsense and gab abou
worshipful masters and square and com
passes and such like that We had in tn,
house, for the next six months you new
cr see the beat. And he's never out
growcd il nuther. What do you thinl
Of a man, Squire, that'll dress hissel
in white apron, bout big enough fo
monkeys bib, and 60 marching ~
and down, and making motions, ane
talking the foolish lingo at picture o
George Washington in green jacket
and truss on his stomach ? Amt he
loonytic Well that's my Sam, and I'v'
stood il as long as I'm agoin to.
"Thc next lungc the old fool made
was the Odd Fellows. made it warn
for him when he came home and tol.
me he'd jined them, but he kinder paci
fled me by telling me they had sor
OF branch show that took in women ans
he'd get me in rs soon rs he found on
how to do it. Well, one night he cam,
home and said I'd been proposed, ant
somebody had black -balled me. Did j
hisself of course. Didn'twant me aroun,
knowing to his goings on. OF cours'
he didn't and | told him so.
"rhcn he jined the Sons Of Matter
Didn't say nothing to me about il, bu
sncaked off one night, pretendin' he's
got to set up with sick Odd Feller an,
I'd never found il out, only he cam,
home lookin' like man that had bcel
through the thrashing machine, and
wouldn't do thing for him till he own
cd up. And so it's gone from bad &
wus, and from wus TO wuSser, jining thi
and that and the t'other, till he's wor
ship Minister Of the Masons, and God
dcSs Of Hope of the Odd Fellows, ant
Sword Swallower Of the Finnegans, am
Virgin Cerus Of the Grange, and Crane
Mogul Of the Sons Of lndolence, ant
Two Edged Tomahawk Of the Unite'
Order Of Black Men, and Talebearcr @
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