The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-05
DoLLY's DELINQUENCIEs.

"And why should l not goW de
mand, poutingly.
"Because it is not fit piece for you
to see, darling" answers my husband.
81 am the best Judge of what is and
what is not fit for me to see," return,
with dignity.
Will looks at me and stares and
laughs.
care you? Upon what grounds do
you put forward your claims for super
iority of judgment?'
"ATarried women are always allowed
more freedom of action than single
girls" reioin, evasively, quoting from
speech once made to me by dis
agreeable married friend in reproof OF
some scatter-brained of1ense / had COM
mitted, aud which had defended by as
serting that she had done the like deed
herself.
"Single girls-married women ALI,
you dear little wife of nineteen years p
cries Will, attempting to kiss me but
am offended, and turn away my head,
81 shall go!" L say, opposition only
having increased my desire to witness
the notorious piece now being performed
al the Variety theater
"No, dear, I am sure you will not
when tell you do not wish you to CO."
"Indeed / shall, whatever your wishes
may be-" is my mutinous reply,
'Dollyp
"Win"
return his glance of reproving sur
prise with one of unabashed defiance,
and then, with every appearance of COM
posure, ] resume my work.
~
needle. Will has shut up the book he
was reading, and sits idly lingering the
paper-cutter. He is the first to break
the silence.
"You said Just now, dear, that mar
ried women have more freedom of action
than single ones. That is hardly correct;
for, after marriage, woman has her
husbands will and opinions to consult" !"
The lord-and-master style of this
address is too much for me. never
could take kindly to controlin any shape
or form.
"Then / suppose you think a wife
ought humbly to ask her husband' s
approval Of every trihing deed she per-
forms ?"
"No, do not think anything of the
sort; but / think that there are some
matters upon which a man must neces-
sarily be more able to form an opinion
than woman, and in these matters the
wife ought certainly submit her will to
her husbands"
Which, being interpreted, means
that ought to submit my will to yours,
and not to go and see Fact and
Fiction"
Exactly" says viii, with sigh OF
relief, evidently imagining the whole
affair comfortably disposed of.
1t is not, though.
"Well, don't agree with you at all,
and l mean to go. You went"
81 know 1 did, and that is the very
reason why / am anxious you should
not. saw and heard things that do
not think it right my wife should see
and hear"
"Well, you formed your opinion from
personal observation, and l shall form
mine in the same way"
"Dolly, understand that I distinctly
and decidedly forbid your going"
The only answer l make to this pro.
hibition is slight shrug of the shoul,
ders as l bend nearer to the light in
order that L may choose correctly be
tween two approximate shadeS OF green
l do not know after all, that L an
really so very anxious to witness this
particular piece; but L do not like to bt
thwarted or contradicted. Accordingly
my husbands vote decides me. L shall
go, please him or displease him.
1t is as well, too, to let Will see that
though l am his wife, l have an in
dividuality of my own. have read and
have been told that husbands are too
fond of reducing their wives to a state
of colorless unquestioning obedience
of treating them, in fact, exactly as i
they We're creatures possessed OF NJ
brains, hopes or ideas of their own.
That state of blind subsection is no
at all in accordance with my view O
the marriage contract. 1t is all yer,
well to say that one will love, honor anC
obey ones husband. Love! Yes, dC
love Will better than any one else in tn
whole world. And honor him I do, to,
he is good and true and worthy o
honor But obey That is altogethe
a different thing, He is only maj