The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-16
LITERARY HUSBANDS.
'Iheir SeIfishneSs and TrrftahIlity-Ad.
't vice TO Ladies-Trials and
PanES of Aufi,orShtD

EdHSs oil Authorship.
There could be few more critical tasks
than to write aAtreatise on the choice of
wives or husbands: but we need not he
prescriptions about warning ladies in
search of husbands to beware of men Of
literary habits, and we shall be doinp a
Kindness if we advise literary men con-
Rnfptatlng matrimony to select for their
wives ludlclous and patient nurses rather
than charming and brilliant women.
There Is a comfortable doctrine held
ny wives that all husbands are more or
less selfish, and we admit that there is
MUCH to be said in support of this the
sserys Hunting husbands, shooting hus-
bands, Parliamentary husbands and busi-
ness 9 = husbands generally seek their own
amusement as the principal end of their
ilves, while the pleasures of their wives
are regarded as desirable but secondary
objects; but none of the aforementioned
are so purely selfish as are certain lit
erary husbands. Strictly pleasure-seek-
ING husbands often study their own
amusement only, while they worship
taeir wives. Literary husbands also
study their own amusement only, while
they worship themselves. Moreover. in
Mefcotrse with their fellow-creatures
ordinary mortals usually imbibe some
fresh ideas or learn a little entertaining
gossip, and are consequently more or less
agreeable companions to their wives.
hut the literary man spends the day at
home in his own den, where his brain
leeds chiefly upon itself, with a few
BOOK, by way of condiment, bv writers
holding his own identical opinions: so
thiatFsile is unlikely to be very fresh or
amusing when he seeks the society of his
wife '-
s4It1Aseia. y 81 savage animal that cannot be
spPfeaehed without danger, the literary
shllshand, as we have said, spends his
nme in his study. He may be concoct-
ing Jokes for comic paper or writing
Treatise on Christian gentleness; but for
Aali tlat, when sitting at his writing table
ne VIII be as ill-tempered and as snap
spish as a bull-terrier on his chain. The |
S!uarlous wife will be wary in approach
9 non such occasions. 1.-THE kitchen
Sulnney IS on fire, or if the pipes are
pifsalng, ~ raa "dear George" must not be
7pis'uroed on that account, or the heat of
as wrath W. and the explosion of his temper
~ s' i1iNeiy to exceed the worst that can
SH'papens y PIP from those domestic caIamities.
sne may be writing the most calm and
saalmpassioned Judgment on the disputes
siween the Guelfs and the Ghibelins:
enasewo'tld' be unwise in his wife to
alcalate on his giving an equally tenn
sSiate declslon on a squabble between
IT. COOK and the butler during the hours
E1at ne spends in his chair of literary
&Isulc'lon, 1t is true that there are
<iie literary husbands who will make
W be courteous when invaded
taelr sanctumS. They will assure
a,r ~ wives that they ''are not in the least
ue way, while their nervous rest
- - 700 plainly bellies their words;
ihay even assume gha>tiy smile [
ss0 thorough reorganization of their ;
ouS Is suggested, and there may be a :
M Nh pretty struggle between the parental
'he literary instincts when their
shsest children are brought into their |
sas,pht feonly requires half an eve to +,
n, aia' 'hey are in reality as much put
y a,seryant disturbed at meal,
~. Ia We take to be the extreme example ,
sm.a nana9 aeridity. Perhaps the most ,
SIasAaoie expression ever assumed by 7
nv saslaiy ~ husband is that which he wears '
A.a a gus wife requests him to come into
s'aWIllles-room M ! wing to help to entertain t
ssss ss iHiends, especially when she as Il
- ss aim that they are aware he is at o
A,sss s.t, ms face, again, is study, ifshe t
so us room when he is in the middle il
ong and carefully prepared SEN v
~ w'th tie pleasing announcement q
! Aslsa:s w nousekeeper complains of ''a p
In one of the back passages.
49, lsH literary work is apt to engender b
aulty When the mind is deeply b
pea IN some interesting subject. and h
80 mas been grasped after consider f;
es-u aentaf exertion, abrupt interruption W
~, 'fylhg. \ sudden disturbance of n
u KIND will produce actual head n
~ some people. 1t is also ex- o.