The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-05-02
YOUNG WIVES.

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Husband is to Practice the Pretty
Arts They Used SO CIeverIy to Win Him.
+ 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 eve
with a new ten-cent pink bordered
mouchoir and plaintively tell you that
"Dick has changed; o, how horribly
changed!' and that he doesn't love
baby one bit-not half so much as his
nasty sleuth-hounds, pointers and
poodles2 As for horses, goodness
knows, he prizes them away beyond
her and young Richard"
Now all this is sadly true and truly
sad. One by one they come, too, for a
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 a big story and
think she will take that round-eyed
young Dick to the park. leaving you to
answer your last loye-letter in answer
to one in which he promises so many
kingly things and dog-cart.
But she takes up baby, who is
swallowing his left leg and mewing like
milk-hungry kitten, and she looks al
you so soberly that you dare not trifle
with her. In turn you gaze on heI
who was one of the iolliest, neatesl
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 Top down after having
caught a 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 a jolly, clearly girl,
but he did not bargain for a weary,
pale, slipshod wife, who never crimps
her hair for him any more, nor wears
pretty house dresses or clean collar.
unless company comes. He expected
that some time he should have to dc
the right thing by an heir, but again he
did not bargain for damp, sickly,
| bottled-reared, poor. almShouSe style OF
baby, who means his days away anC
howls out the nights.
A Jolly mother brings up Jolly babie:
you may be sure of that-and vice.
versa. Dick smoking den is full Of
slop-water and baby garments in the
process of drying. Smoke hurts Alice
and young Dick. so her mother SAYS
His old bright-eyed, red-cheeked cir
| has grown into a down at-the-heel.
| quiet, non-reading, non-talking woman.
full of complaints and neuralgia, with
| only thin crust over her tears, and,
to cap all, she is Jealous because he car
still laugh and admire a pretty woman
| neatly dressed. No woman expects tc
change so, but they make the grave
mistake of fancying that maternity will
also rouse some hidden paternity, and
that the father will grow solemn anC
teary with the mother. Not bit of it,
The baby adds another chap to romr
with, and if he isn't that kind of a little
animal he is voted IN g." until he is
old enough to know dada and to know
a papier-mache pistol from doll.
All the time this youngster is looked
upon as an interloper if his pretty
mother gets slouchy and wears old
flannel, musty, condensed-food smelling
wrappers. Be bright, talk to him OF
the days news, save some pin-money,
and get a trusty woman who will look
after the baby when you 90 out with
Dick, but for your child's sake, don't
trust him always to that social fraud
and horror, baby-nurse.-Cor. Chicago
Tribune.