The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-19
A Worn-out Wife.
From the Nashville Sunday Timep,l

From the Nashville Sunday Timcp
A darkey recently made application
for divorce from his wife. When
asked on what grounds he demanded II
divorce, he explained as follows ; "Dc
ground of dis occasion is sufficient
enough. When | rented ten acres and
worked one mule, married Il woman
suitable for de occasion. Now | rent
sixty acres Of land, an work five mules,
My fust wife is IL mighty good ten acre
wife, but she don't suit dc occasion oh
sixty acres. | needs woman what can
spread more"
There is II good deal Of human nature
and some white man about the above,
which We clip from an exchange.
1t is frequently the way Of this world,
after one has risen, to wish to get rid Of
the help used in rising, and ignore those
who were friends in less prosperous, or
more humble days. And to such "the
ground Of the occasion is sufficient
enough"
While the man has been ,nboring in
his business, and making himself rich,
his wife has been keeping herself at
home, working harder than he, econo-
MIXING, planning, contriving, turning
and twisting in all ways, to keep down
the evcr-increasing expenses going
without things she needs, sacrificing her
aesthetic tastes and culture, draining her
self of her life blood and vitality, to
raise and care for her family. Happy
and blessed in her sacrifices, with the
thought that she will reap her reward
in Il comfortable ind honorcd old age,
when she can rest from her labors, and
quietly and lovingly tread the down
ward path that leads through the still
waters to the green shore on the other
side, hand in hand with him whom she
so lovingly and proudly gave the bloom
and freshness of her youth. Happy in
the thought that she has never been
burthcn to her husband but that her
true and loving hands have mnistered
to his every want, and supplied him
with every needed home comfort, and
that he owes his present prosperity to
her loving careiulncss and sacrifice, and
is ready 20 sit calmly down and receive
her full reward in the love and trust she
has earned. But his ideas are far 9TH
erwise. While she has been at home,
and been deprived of the means of i'm
proving her mind, and of keeping
abreast with the literary and fashiona-
bic world, and keeping herself to shine
in polite society-so-called he has been
in constant contact with the busy world
and its workers, and has acquired, in
culture and d polish, which
was necessary to his business, and iric-
ton with men and things in the outer
world, has kept his mind bright and
clear, and fitted him to enjoy IL good old
,ge, with his health and vigor unim-
paired, and his form developed to port
iness and good looks. While she, who
,y her counsel and comfort, has aided
lin to all this, has become worn and
I'D her once lovely, fair cheek faded
md wrinkled, and her bright, clear eyes
limmed with watching and tears, and
Ter plump, pretty hands rough and dis
gured with toll and labor. She is not
tiled to go into society as the elegant
nd charming wife Of the rich and sue
cssful man. She was good enough
for ten acres and one mule" but he is :
ow far past that. She did well q
ncugh to five in and care for the pretty
tile cottage, and bear and bring up the
hildren there; but she is not grand $
nough to preside over the brown stone II
and chaperon the gay and '
daughters. She is merely s.
re grandest Of Gods gifts an old-fash- u