The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-04
DIVIDING UP.

4 man Of f0rty-fve, having wooden leg
and the look Of one VINO had suffered with
the t0othaChe, sat down i'm the chair vacated
by the boy, and after a smile Of encourage
ment began
III matters don't mend pretty soon, FL
either murder her or take my own life.
Domestic trouble, j suppose go queried
Bijah.
That's it, sir aud I'm getting desperate.
1 left home thinking j d jump from the dock.
but / happened 30 think of YOU and 50 L
thought I'd ask advice.
rs the bread heavy e'
'Blast the bread / can stand heavy
bread, sloppy tea. law meat onC half-coOkcd
potatoes, but / can't noE / won't stand this
internal whining, complaining and jawing
around
Fellow traveller along the towpath Of
Times br0ad-guaCe canal, / think 1 see the
point. / on have been married about two
years"
You ars fifteen years older than your
wife.
sYes-eighteen."
You have a wooden leg, and she-she-''
'She hasn't but l wish she had two Of
'em 20
"She likes good clothes
''YUu bet %
"She likes the mad whirl Of society. six
teen dollar bOunets. reserved seats at the
opera, eight dollar boots forty button kid
gloves. and trains on her dresses .''
''>he does that's her to dot 80 exclaimed
her husband.
And you prefer your home, evening IRE,
newspaper, snow apples, game of checkers,
glass of cider, cat on the hearth and 50 on 2''
That's the sort o. man am, sir and she
harnesses me to death. She's on the trOt all
day and on the CAD all evening, and if j re-
monstrate she says ] want to make slave
and prisoner of her
Don't You 20 along with her to the thea
tres and parties -'
i used to but FOR the last year she's got
awful particular about my wooden leg saws
the public VIII think was shot while steal
ing chickens.
Does, en- , and YOU sit at home and keep
your feet warm by the cook stove while she
ERllivsuts !''
'.Ths same. sir, and now what shan do
about it2 Something has got to be did, and
that right of. I'll be hanged to Davy Crock
ettif put mp with IL another day You are
an older man than am, and you've had
three wives to MY one, and I'D do Just as
Won say about il. -
''Fellow-man, you have been wrong from
the beginning. slowly answered Eiiah. a.
he looked out OF the window ia weary way.
The man Who marrleS woman only halt
his age Is 2 ID. E.-deceiYed frledcake-at the
start. Outh may reverence old age, but
love isn't reverence. y outh and old age
don't ike their tzters cooked the same vsv.
and the man that saws they do is q fOrrer.
. They don't seem alike, and its a cat and deg
life. Ii l was to marry again, bald headed
as ] am. ] should look for 2 lady wearing
. No. 10 gloves and No SHOES rs an Offset.
DO You love your wife 90
well. too De honest about it. don't think
either of Us are dgiug OF love-
Then. my friend, you GO home and have
q candid talk, divide up the things, and part
good friends. Give her the larger half. throw
in some small change, and see that she gets
safe home 20 her mother BY and bV you
can quietly secure q bill Of divorce, get On
a suit Of store clothes. and look ont for =
woman Of fifty. who has the rheumatics 50
that she can't get mad
That's honest, is it
Honest Iuiun. If yOu can't live happy
together, don't hesitate 10 live happy apart
No use in any scandal OF hard words. hlt di
vide up and call II a bad mistake. This Kill
ing ones self on account of domestic trouble
is all bosh.'
That's so, and I'll walk straight home
and begin the dividing up business. Thanh
You, Bijah may your feet stop growing a. 3
reward for this. -
/ When ne had departed Bijah took short
cut through the alleys, and presently gained
= position from whence he could view The
hOuse where the man lived Developments
did not tarry. The husband had not been II
| the house i've minutes before he was suddcl
Z " rushed out again, hat and cane flying, an,
his share Of the things, consisting of tnret
fiat-irOns kettle and two bricks, overlook
Z him before he could dodge.
. so young and so artless - muscd Hi1ah
as he turned away: ''and yet that last hrick
thumped him between the shoulders Just as
purty as if I'd thrown it myself. '-Detroi
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