The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-05
MANAGING A HUSBAND.

marry him he will make you his slave
Ntake my word for it, Miss Atherton."
y "s1p,you think SOP" said the lady ad-
dressed. quietly looking up. from her
! embroidery.
"Think 80? know it. You cannot
have forgotten how his first wife Jared.
So gentle and lovely, too, as she was,
! yet the poor woman never dared say
| her soul was her own-never! If she
had had different husband, she would
undoubtedly have been alive to-day"
every likely, Mrs. May"
sand yet, knowing all this, you are
going to take her place."
Major Flint will find me a very diff
ferent person from his first wife," said
Miss Atherton, composedly. However.
as 1 do not wish to anticipate sorrow,
we will, if you please, dismiss the sub
ject."
This was not the first remonstrance
| Miss Anterior had received on the SUBJ
iect of her approaching marriage, but
she had made up her mind, it appeared,
and was now occupied in making prep
arations for the wedding.
What had been said respecting Major
Flint and his first wife was unquestion
ably true. He was domestic tyrant
and holding the female understanding in
very slight esteem, considered that the
| wife ought, in all respects, to be subser-
Went to the husbands will.
HE reason for marrying again was
VprS -yipally from the fact that he found
no housekeeper who would be sufficiently
subservient to his whims and caprices.
! Having lost one after another, he came
4 to the conclusion that he needed wife,
and soon resolved to tender his hand to
Grace Anterior, who had been q warm
! personal friend of his lost wife. We
will not analyze her motives for accept
ing his proposal, though probably
regard for Mr.. Flint's two helpless little
{ children, who resembled their mother
rather than their father, influenced her
as much as any other motive. How
ever that might be, the marriage soon
took place, and after brief journey
Miss Anterior returned as Mrs. Major
Flint, to take the place OF mistress OF
the household.
I Hitherto Major Flint had forbode to
"show his hand" Now, however, that
their married life had fairly begun, he
thought it qnite time to do so.
"I have given Mrs. Burns a weeks
/ warning" he remarked, at the breakfast
table, the morning after their return.
u Mrs. Burns had been housekeeper and
maid of all work, the entire duties OF the
kJhousehold devolving upon her.
And why have you given her weeks
Iwa{ 5ne?" said the lady, composedly.
y"Al1you not satisfied with her?"
TT is not that, madam, said the Major
! deliberately.
ANY difficulty about the wages?"
asked his wife, unconcernedly.
"No," said her husband, feeling some
what EN- barrassrd. 1.-The fact is, Mrs
\ Flint there is not very much work to do
l in our small household, at least no more
than one pair OF hands can easily do. My
1 6,st wife always did her own work. and
l with ease, though she was not q very
\ strong woman"
ibid she not die very young?" said
! wife number two, slipping her coffee COM
/ posedly.
Y "Why, yes, said the obtuse Mr.. Flint,
q little Disconnected. "You know the
young die as we'll as the aged"
80 have heard" returned his wife
Msior Flint was good deal puzzled
Y by the matter. of-fact manner of his new
I Wit. Her cool self-possession awed him
I in spite of himself. II she had stormed
( he would have felt better prepared to
\ meet the emergency.
n II shall permit my children to remain
y where they are at their mothers, until
Won get accustomed to the house little.
In the course OF week" he added, "you
will get An idea OF the extent OF the work
BY observing Mrs. Burns"
Rieiho from the table, he was about to
| leav9V,he room, when his footsteps were
arrested by the simple address
''Major Flint"
''Well?r said he.
1T appears you have been making
= arrangements without consulting me-"
y\Naior Flint was astonished.
fsYvu, madaml Why should l consult
I yc&u about my arrangements?"
'fBecause may not approve them"
fMrs. Flint" said the major, 1T is
uN6ur duty to acquiesce in whatever plans
ri. q your husband, see at to form"
Indeed, never took that view of the
natter" said Mrs. Flint.
! 'sThen the sooner you take Il the bet
4 tor" was the reply,
''Do you expect me to perform ell the
labor required 10 this establishments"
'sExactly 90, madam"
~ helieve you arc considered . rich
man, Major FIintf"
II am accounted ~. madam" he 70.
piled complacently.
ssAnd you are quite able to hire do
| mestjo service. ere you mott"