The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
MARRIED MISERY.
"B" Writes a Pathetic Letter
Concerning his Wife's Rel.
atoms and asks the Ba-
zoos Help.

much married man inasmuch my wife
has relations and those relstians per-
sist visiting her pretty much all the
time. Now God forbid that you will
think l am inhospitable enough
to begrudge them the welcome which
properly belongs to those who are
near and dear to the wife Ofmy bosom
and the mother of my children, but
-well of course there is "but," or
/ would not have written to you, and
the but in this instance is We have
a house of eight rooms, with room
for a good-lOoking servant girl, and if
such a thing as our ever being alone
should happen in the an
mails of the family history we would
number merely four souls. Self. wife,
boy named Jack aged FIVE and little
daughter aged two. My income is a
comfortable one and we are quite able
70 have many luxuries as well as all
the comforts, but | for one do not
have all the comforts in my own home
and this is the way of it. My wife
has a mother, a couple of maiden
aunts, a grandmother, three unmar.
ried cousins, a brace Of seminary
friends and one or two intimate neigh
bors. In the spriny the mother comes
and stays month with us, then both
the old maid aunts arrive for the sum-
mer, then grandma" comes for the
fall and in the winter the sisters are
on hand. As for the unmarried
Cousins and the seminary girls, and
the neighbors, durn me if they don't
just about /" fill in the chinks" so
closely that | can't find a place for
my boot jack. In the spring
mother-in-law bosses the spring elem
ing, and as she does not consider me
o any importa: &c whatever, l am
without a place to sleep for at least
two weeks, while the marital bedroom
and the other parts of the house are
put in order. Then she doses me,
makes the confoundedest messes out of
bone-set ard similar "yarbs," and if |
dare to even complain of a corn, makes
me swallow the nasty stuff till [ al
most long for death. Of course l get
mad and tell my wife won't stand it,
but if you ever tried to sleep while a
woman was shifting in her pillow, you
know how it lie, and / give in. Well,
after mother-in-law gets through with
me and mine, the old maid auuts put
in an appearance and then it is "Hark
to the tombs." Aunt Drusilda-that's
her outlandish name is tall, thin and
has mania for woman suffrage and
othlr hobbies of the sex. Aunt Mi
randa is short, fat, loves fancy work
and hates the very rame of a wO.
mans rights woman. Thus, they are
hardly settled until they commence.
Aunt Drusilda tells how Mrs. Wear
the-Breeches, has been in attendance
at certain convention where it was
shown what wonderfully powerful in,
tellects women have now adays etc.,
and no sooner pauses for breath until
aut Miranda declares that a "woman
who has no more Sense than to 60 CAD.
ding about the country listening to
such fool speeches, ought to be in an
insane asylum" Aunt Drus;lda at
once fires up at this and gives aunt
Miranda "as good as she sends" and
then / have to finally be called to
make peace between them, I'd "make
peace between them" by ordering
them both out of the house II
l dared, but | don't. My wife is a
favorite niece and both the old girls
have money. These little fracasces are
kept up daily and in the mean time,
aunt Drusilda encourages my wife to
snub me on all occasions and aunt
Miranda makes a tidy for every blam
ed chair in the house and
can't find a place to sit comfort.
able, without going to the
stable or down in the garden where
There Nc ON old n hair which fha ro ~