Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-11-18
uzz TEN YEARS A HUSBAND.
A Littie story Which Many Borrowing
w fe Knows by Heart.
From ladelphia North American


From Philadelphis North American.
"Are you going to the lecture,
Henryf" l said, as l saw my husband,
one evening, putting on his overcoat
after tea.
YES" was the reply.
VI wish you would take me-" I an
swered.
Really, Mary, I think home is the
proper place for mother"
"But one of my sisters would look
after the children. I do so want to
hear this great lecturer"
'"rell the truth, / have but one
ticket" was the reply, as he went out
of the door, land don't think can
afford to buy another"
My husband and had been married
for several years. Before the marriage
he had been unusually attentive, even
for a lover, and if another gentleman
spoke to me he was jealous. When
there was lecture or concert any
where he always took me. II was
invited to q party he was only too
glad TO attend me. But now parties
are a BORE he says, "he can't
think why women wish to go to
them" Then he was all affection.
Now, he acts as if it would lower
his dignity to show his love to me or
my children, and if l offer him kiss
or caress he is almost certain TO re-
fuse me. l cannot complain that he
neglects his more obvious duties. He
gives me plenty of money tor dress,
lives well, and is even talking of buy
ing new house. But he seems TO
think that wife has no business with
anything but housekeeping. and never
needs change of scene OF other recre-
alton.
whats the use of woman" he
says, "going about? Home is the
place for her."
1t may be so, but after hard days
work often feel as if walk in the
fresh air, or visit to q neighbours
would be a real blessing. l said to
him the other evening when he was
going out again:
"Won't you stay at home Harry, to
oblige me? Just this once. | am SO
lonely"
] ''LonelyW was his answer. "How
can you be lonely with the children"
"But they are abed. And recollect,
! can see nobody, day in and day out
Can't you do ito. please me--for
this oncep" l could hardly speak; il
was as much as l could do to keep the
tears from coming; his conduct seemed
so cruel,
1.-THE fact u.s." he replied. "1'm
dead beat with working all day, and
must go out to get frightened Up q
little. You women never make allow
ances for a man." And he went Out
lquite Grossly.
Never make Allowances II the
husband is worried with business, and
! l do not doubt it. is not wife worried
with housekeeping Are servants
and children, and sickness no troubled
And is woman differently constituted
from o man, so that the recreation
which one considers Indispensable fol
himself is of no service to the otherp
"How your complexion has gone,
said my husband to me the other day
ut seems to me that in this climate {
woman is old at thirty"
Again the tears came into my eyes
Harry did not mean to be unkind; Ii,
was only thoughtless. But why had
lost my complexion? Can woman
live forever in rooms heated by no
air, never going out, except on SOM
errand, and then hurrying home a
soon as the errand is done, withou
! losing her complexion Is it the eli
mate or her mode of life that make
her old before her time? 1t was OIL
my tongue to say these things, but
retrained. l have learned that "silenc
. is golden"
! "How | wish | had something +
read," said yesterday. ~ think if
had q new book now and then III
: evenings, when you are out, Harry
would not be so long"
Books cost too much money il
. times like these" answered my hus
band. II should think your SEWN
: would amuse you enough. To &C
bread for his family and lay by it'll
for rainy day is as much as pru
dent man can do nowadays" And a
:, he spoke he lit his cigar and went oul
Will men ever understand women
Will they ever see their own selfish
: ness in its true light? These thought
rose to my mind, as reflected with
lsigh that 1.-THE of the money Harr
3 spent on cigars would buy me all th
lnew books wished.
, Yet Harry does not mean to be III
kind. He saw his mother treated a
he treats me, and he thinks l have n
!. right to complain. Perhaps hav
not. But, OIL how much happier
would be if things were different.
Are women only machines to sew
'' darn, sweep, dust, bake bread, TAX
v care of children and keep house? Hav
&c they no need of recreation? No high
q nature that is starved by life liR
!. mine?
;, There is no contention betwee
l. Harry and me. But his love now i
:. or seems to be, q very different thin
\ from what it seemed before marriag
Is my fate the fate Gf all? Is ever
= wife like me when ten years marrie'