Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
VOL. 7S.--399S. NO. "a.

heavy for q man 10 handle. jumped up
TO help her but-but / won't tell you what
she said. couldn't believe my ears II
she wanted me 10 help her, why didn't she
say sof should think that was easy
snough."
"Yes, it was easy enough In one way and
altogether too hard in another. Probably
she wanted you to do IL without her asking"
"But didn't think Of it."
"Very likely that was the whole trouble.
She might have been hurt because you
didn't think"
"Pshawl That's unreasonable. We've
never quarrelled before since we we're mar
ried. l couldn't stand it, going off this
morning as l did, so got away from the
office to-to-I know | was to blame. Sis
was as tired as / was, and she's not half 80
strong. / don't wonder she hated to ask
me, II | was too stupid to see. II was all
my fault"
"No 'twasn't, Harry, it was all mine p
They both started as figure with white
face and red eyes ran into the room, and
into her husbands arms. The little do
nestle drama which followed might have
been awkward to any other third party but
Mrs Rowland.
"When you can each appropriate the
blame in that wholesale fashion," she said,
smiling upon them both, "I think you can
be trusted for the future"
"But how could we ever have done it in
the first place 2" Mrs. Bronson asked with
vague phraseology.
"You each have good deal Of that some
times troublesome article, human nature"
the elder lady replied. Gone is too sensi-
tive, the other too thoughtless. One sees
, tbfn In Iafa;I ,onalIxy 10, ha
other in the large. A days difference In
getting house to rights is great deal of
difference TO the housekeeper. 1t may very
naturally seem of very slight account to the
man who spends all his days down town. l
suppose you see how the same principle
might apply to many different things"
Mrs. Bronson nodded her head vigorously,
lifting it from her husbands shoulder for
the purpose.
at is certainly unreasonable to expect
that the man and woman will see things
from exactly the same point Of view," Mrs.
Rowland went on, "yet half the misery OF
married life comes from failure TO recog-
nize that fact"
"To the husband, or the wife 2" Harry
Bronson asked, with a twinkle in his eye.
"To the wife first, naturally-the more
sensitive one. She is hurt, then she grows
angry or melancholy. Half the time, at
least, the husband is puzzled to know
wherein he has offsnded-being so perfectly
innocent in intention. Then-what else can
be expected 2-he grows angry at her for
being unreasonable, and what comfortable
state of things is the result" !"
al told Aunt Eunice about it as soon as
she got here" Mrs. Bronson volunteered
humbly.
"And told her as soon as got here"
her husband added.
"Aud we will never, never, quarrel again,
Harry"
"If you can learn to expect less, and
Harry can think to give more" Aunt Eu-
nice said impressively, "your accounts will
balance, as q general thing. 1t will take
time, though. You know that"
go Heaven is not reached by single
bound. But we build the ladder by which
we rise,'" Harry quoted
Not step-ladder, hope" laughed his
wife, little excitedly. "That was what
nearly broke our hearts as well as the Ma
donna's head"
"And you must climb together" Mrs.
Rowland added. "Hold of hands, too, as
far as possible; not on the ground, on each
side of the ladder, and pulling different
ways"
Mrs. Bronson regretted that the article
| which suggested the metaphor belonged to
one of the painters who took it away the
| next day, for, as she declared, " I'd like to
keep it before me as an hourly reminder of
Aunt Eunice's advice "-Cdroline B. Le
Ro,c, in Christian Union.