Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-08-02

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together this evening, and then you
draw q check and foot the bill,
why uncle, you never kept house,
You know nothing Of woman's de-
mands, 1t would sweep every cent !
have
Let 1t sweep then! Money gotten
dishonesty, ~ that was, had better 60
to tho place 1t was stolen from, You
have been robbing your wife of her life
power, her health and her happiness
these three years. 1t Is time you made
reparation. ] have preached dishonesty.
lfyou can't keep your wife in de-
cent way, break up and lot phebe 80
back to the good home she came from.
You can 90 into store in the city and
make your own living
What dcsolatc picture ii was !
Leave his pleasant home, his wife aud
boy aud take up with the old solitary
lodgings in boarding house! lie felt
lonesome at the bare suggestion. Uncle
Alcck went on;
u should like to give your wife this
piece of advice The next time you
oven hint about what is needed in the
housekeeping line, and what is not,
and suggest rctrcnchmcnt here and n
cutting off there, want her to walk
out and give orders to your hired man
tell him how much grain he must give
the horses, how much salt to the sheep,
how he must scrimp the wheat when
he sows il and corn when he plants it.
She may tell him to tic up the broken
harrow with string, and not go to the
expense of having it mcnded, and shall
insist on his going ahead if the plough
handle is broken--it is too trilling
thing to stop work for that. All the
fault | find with Phebe is that she did
not do this long ago. If she had given
you good setting down in the start,
and taught you to mind your business,
it would have been blessing all
around
1t was pretty plain dealing, but it
was great eye-opener to the young
man. He sat upon the piazza for an
hour in the moonlight and thought, and
thought, and thought. Whatever his
meditations were, one thought was up
permost-hc must gain ground with
uncle Aleck or his chances were slim.
The little talk had as Mark Twain
wonld say, knocked more conceit out
of him than fit OF sickness. Hum
BILE pie may not be very palatable, but
it is sometimes just the diet to bring
one around right. Slowly and soberly
the young man came to HIMSELF and
then the foremost thought was what
wretch I have been! Can Phebe
have spark of love or respect for me?
There must have been something
good in the youth, or that loyal heart
could not have held her affection for
him, through thick and thin, as she
had done. Uncle Alexis visit was a
god send to her. He saw new order
of things established in the house, and
hung up the three-toothed rake in a
conspicuous place in the barn as a
standing object-lesson. Phebe scarcely
knew how to get meals in her new
sausepans. Phebe soon won back her
roses and went about her duties blithe
as a singing-bird. She would always
lauglingly head her husband off when
ever he began to allude to old times,
and 'set down naught in malice but
charged the whole to 'our youth and
inexperienced
When Uncle Aleck came back the
next year to the christening ofthe little
'Caroline,' he made out to her the
deed of some valuable property, and
added u codicile to his will, in which
the ivory picture was bequeathcd to
this namesake of the fair young lady
who, to lin, was always young and
beautiful.
A Wisconsin woman kept silent for