Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-05-01
A Modern Wife.

"Yon're pretty giIl to be married !''
said an aged aunt to her niece. why,
what do you know about housekeeping
Just from boarding school? I am
sure your husband has need of mint OF
money"
"La! aunt, I expect 10 board; you
need not think I shall bother my head
with domestic concerns. Every body
boards now, that gets married genteel
y, the first year"
"What shall you pay week for such
kind of living?" inquired the aunt.
"Mr. Hyde says he can get firstrate
board and accommodations for fifteen
dollars; two rooms beautifully situated
and ] am sure that is cheap enough.
What is Hyde's salary? Why, six hun
dred dollars bow, and the promise of
promotion-prebaps eight hundred be
| fore the year is out "
| So you are going to live on the
perhaps, are you? Now let me tell you,
Susie: You talk foolish. If your hus J.
band is at present receiving five hun-
dred, do you lay by one of them. It's
all nonsense to go beyond your means" f"
why, aunt! nobody would respect
US, ii We did not live as styl lisii az other
people. There is great deal in begin
ing"
True. child that is what ] am try
ing TO impress upon yon
The year passed away. Susie lived iD
style, paid fifteen dollsrs for bosrd, re-
| ceived her genteel aGQuaIntances, work.
ed some fancy netting, drew q few
ketches from old paintings, grew tired
of boarding, and was just entering upon
| fashionable housekeeping, when 10! q
defaieat!on came out Eyde had taken
money unIa RfuiIy, was arrested, held to
| bail, and prison stared him in the
| face.
Susie did not believe him guilty, they
| had always lived SO economically, and
1t could not be But the trial proved
Otherwise, and he was convicted and
sentenced TO inaprisoa ment for years.
"How could you do SO, Hyde ?" asked
the good old aunt.
"fo please my wife's fancy" was the
reply. "She wanted 10 live like other
people. and ! wished TO crafty her, and
in this way, I committed my first breach
of trust"
The broken hearted wife lamented the
beginning che had made, when, alas ! it
was too late to rectify it, She found
respectobidty preferable to gentitity.-
| She now lives at her fathers with a
worse than Widows sorrow to harrow
her feelings. and taking in sewing for 3
livelihood
The plain road to ruin is here clearly
marx ed Gus. We see what must have
been The result of such course but are
not thousands of others sacrificing their
husbands regulations by less obvious
cut still as certain courses Of extrava
gapce. Away with the non sensical
Thought that gentility demands such q
sacrifice beyond ones ability. If you
value the opinions of the truly WORTH =
aud estimabie, you will find them al
ways on the side of prudent expenditure
and economical living.
"Cut your garment according to your
cIoth,' u is au old maxim but the senti-
ment is as true now as in olden times
A life of grand show may do for but
terfiy, but never for q man and woman
who expect to survive one season.
The wife should strive to aid the hus-
band ia the tolls of life, ard honest in
dustry hardly ever fails in bringing
health and contentment. Then, young
man, look well ere you make choice of a
life partner j. l.. Harvey