The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-07-06

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Not a bit of it," she returned
promptly. ''Don't you flatter your
self! Men are all alike. He would
have felt just as Mr.. Smith did.
Such feelings aren't much to their
credit, but they're true. And 1
suppose he had to eat cold dinner
when he did come, and know that,
like all other men, he hates a cold
dinner
"Yes," L admitted reluctantly.
"You must excuse my frankness,
Mary, but our long intimacy war
rants me in saying that l think your
husband would have been much
better pleased to come home and
find pleasant home with no smell
of soapsuds, neatly dressed wife,
and hot dinner. He would have
gladly handed out the money to pay
a washerwOman. 1t makes me sick
my friends features were expires
sive of intense disgust-"to read all
this newspaper twaddle about do
mestic wives. l think it is wife's
duty to excel in four things, namely;
neatness, good temper, economy and
cooking, A woman is very foolish
whe saves on help to put the money
into dress. Moreover, 1 regard it an
act of christian charity for those
who can afford it, to make a good
home for some poor girl. In this
manner, almost every hOuse-keeper
can be a kind Of home missionary"
But suppose your husband is
too poor to afford helpY' l OBJ
jected.
did you ever see a man too poor
to smoke cigars? Besides, woman
is foolish ever to marry poor man."
"Why, Sarahr' 1 cried, aghast.
"You talk the rankest heterodoxyr'
Excuse me, my love; l talk
merely common sense. If a man
loves u woman and amounts to any
thing in the world, he will make a
home for her. If he doesn't amount
to anything, he has no business to
marry. There is no more miserable
sight in the world than a stirring,
go ahead woman tied for life to a
lazy, shiftless man. Such a woman
always ends by becoming a scold,
and 1 don't blame her! If a man
loses his property through sickness
and misfortune, that's another
matter entirely. Then any true
woman will help him if she has to
work all day and all night too"
"But, Sarah, don't YOU ever wash
or scrub?"
"No, ma'amw said my friend en-
phatically," and l never will as long
as Timothy Fink is able to pay
others to do such things for me.
OF course 1 know how all these
things ought to he done, and l see
that they are done properly. But
if fairly longed to do such things
I'd tie my hands behind my back
before I'd be so foolish, just from
principle" II Think said l slow
ly, 'that that must be one great
secret why your husband prizes you
so highly. He thinks you're made
of a more precious kind of ware than
other women, and will not let the
winds of heaven blow too roughly
on you"
II guess that's just it," said my
friend with n smile and n blush.
Timothy does think I'm nearly
perfection. But l almost forgot
what l wanted to borrow you for, if
you're not too tired of all this SER
monizing, to go with me. I've got
the horse and buggy and delicious
basket Of lunch; so bring the baby
and we'll go to Black Lake for ar
butus."
''Pd love to CO." said longingly,
''but there's no one to get the din
ner! Send your guide mon to the
restaurant for once. Well drive
around by the office and tell him
you're going. His dinner is of less
Importance to him than q long,
lovely day in the woods to you and
and baby. Shall we gof'
Sarah" said 1, "you're a dear,
sensible little woman, and I'll go
with you with all my heart"
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