St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-27
that II ne made any trouble it would be the
worse for him before the court martial.
YOUNG WIVES.
Why They Think Their Hub1ies Chanae
Toscards Them.

| st Louis Republican. ~
Why do all the watery-eyed, shaky-kneed
young wives appeal to you for sympathy when
| they have rocked their first seraph to sleep in
cut-teeth Mother Hubbard (only meant for
babies). and why do they all, as a class, wipe
the corner of their off eye with Few ten
cent pink-bordered mouchoir and plaintively
tell you that ''Dick has changed; oh, how
changed and that he doesn't love baby one
bit-not half SO much as his nasty sleuth
hounds, pointers and poodles as for horses,
goodness knows, he prizes them away be-
yond her and young Richard"
Now all this is sadly true and truly sad.
One by one they come, too, for key to the
family rebus, after trip to Europe and
disappearance for time in Ohio, which is a
great state for presidents
When you shake your head, which knows
vast deal too much, you say you know not
the reason why OF this wherefore You tell
big story and think she will take that round
answer your last love letter in answer to one
In which he promises SO many kingy things
and dog cart.
But she takes up baby, who is swallowing
MS left leg and mewing like a milk-hungry
kitten, and she looks at you SO soberly you
care not tribe with her. In turn, you gaze
on her who was one of the joliest neatest
girls you ever saw thirteen months ago.
DICK is still jolly to everybody but his wife.
OF whom he seems in awe because she is the
daughter of her mother. He has lately walked
on tip toes, and romps only in the stable
| yard with the dogs.
The real fact OF the matter is that Young
girls lop down after having caught man,
tired from the effort and they spend two
thirds OF the year with ''mar,' who points
out frailties in Dicks constitution much too
often to suit Dick. He loved Jolly, cleanIv
girl, out he did not bargain for weary, pale.
| sllp-snod wife, who never crmps her hair for
MIN any more, nor wears pretty house dresses
or clean collars unless company comes. He
expected that some time he should have to do
the right thing by an heir, but again he did
not bargain for damp, sickly, botted-reared,
poor, almshouse style of baby, who means
his days away and bowls out the nights.
A Jolly mother brings up jolly babies you
may be sure of that-and vice versa. Dicks
smoking den is full of slop water and baby
garments i'll the process of drying. Smoke
huIls alice ana young DICK, so her mother
says. His old bright-eyed, red-cheeked girl
has grown into down-at the-heel, ouiet. non
reading, non-talking woman, full of COM
plants and neuralgia, with only thin crust
over her tears, and to cap all she is jealous
because he can still laugh and admire
pretty woman neatly dressed. If young wives
only knew it the only way to keep husband
is to practice all the arts they used so cleverly
to win him. No woman expects to change
so, but they make the grave mistake of fancy
ing that maternity will also rouse some hid
den paternity, and that the father will grow
SCI mn and teary with the mother Not a bit
OF it. The baby adds another chap 70 romp
with, and if he isn't that kind of little ami
NAL he is voted IN. g." until he is old
enough to know dada and to know papier-
mache pistol from a doll.
All the time this youngster is looked upon
as an interloper if his pretty mother gets
slouchy and wears old flannel, musty, con-
densed-food smelling wrappers. Be bright,
talk to him of the days news, save some pin
money and get trusty woman who will look
after the baby when you go out with Dick, but
for your child's sake don't trust him always
to that social fraud and horror, a baby nurse.