The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-29
Berry Baker.

have accumulated seven-fold during
the week ending on Sunday morn
ing about 10 q. M, take my seat
and set down with pen in hand to
let you know not all, but part OF
what is going on near the squires
1t wouldn't do to tell all this time
If did / would have nothing the
next, unless something turned up,
which most certainly will. There
is always something turning up at
our house. IL they don't turn by
themselves, Mrs. Baker turns 'em
Any thing that don't turn about
her amt worth much. Why,as Old as
1 am have to turn while under
her all scrutinizing eye, maternal
care and supervision. Her great
est effort and desire is to turn me
from the evil of my ways, not hers.
but mine. You may not believe it,
but it is nevertheless true. When ]
am by myself have ideas of my
own, with her 1 have hers. Envious
life to live. No monotony about it
That other word takes its place en-
tirely. l have heap more to do
now than did when Mrs. Baker
(nee Miss Cook and l were first
married. Wonder if everybody's
work and things accumulate as fast
as ours have. The first time / went
to the old man Cook there was Just
one OF me, and when I came away
there were just two of US, and the
longe we stayed away the faster
the accumulation, though Mrs. B.
and l quit accommodating several
years ago with the exception OF
what money we are accommodating
and some other things such as old
age, houses and lands, cattle and
swine, horses and mules and dispo-
sitions to want more than we car
get. If things continue on thusly
we'll be ere long dealing in stocks
and bonds no telling how soon or
where it will end. / hope SO, and
that it may turn out prolitably.
used to think that young folks
loved each other better than old
folks, and to an outsider it does
seem like it, but 1 don't believe it
now. You see when there are only
two to love and nothing to do but
to love each other, there is a con-
centration of loneliness. Mrs. Ba-
ker says concentration is not the
word in our case and don't apply to
our present surroundings at all.
And she's right, reckon. She
thinks multiplication would be the
more appropriate. In making some
calculations by arithmetical pro-
gression | find that my wife SalIie
is right.
l once heard a clown say that
when he WAS first married he loved
his wife good enough to eat her up,
and now he wished he had. Now
l don't wish any such foolishness.
If had the Lord only knows how
such "a vast vacant space could
have been peopled. l mean numer-
ically. If such a thing had oc-
Cured you bet there wouldn't have
been amy vacant space about me
that would be convertible, though
she is not very large woman. An
other clown said when he was first
married the Person pronounced
them one, but if you could be in
hearing now you would think tn ere
were about forty. That's it, I
struck it at last. If you were in
hearing of myself and Mrs. Baker,
you'd be reminded of the express
sion of the latter clown, though that
is not an every day occurrence, for
which am very thankful.
In speaking of love, / contend
love is love. Now don't understand
me to say that a person can't grow
in love. 1 think love rightly looked
after would be like the widows
cruise of oil, the oftener you went
for it, the the more you'd have of
it. A little leven leveneth the
whole lump, So will love run out
from father and mother to son and
daughter. Mrs. Baker and have
ours divided first between US. Then
between eight of us, and now its be-
ing subdivided, thirdly divided,
fourthly divided, &c. Mans love
and woman's too will gradually tli-
minish as it goes down the line of
posterity until it goes out like a
sound in the distance. That's man 3
love. Gods love has no diminu-
tion. 1t never grows weaker. Suf-
ficIent to save US all, if we'll do
what he tells us. Would it not be
well for us TO do that? That's my
ha3d. Mrs. Baker says if 1 want
to follow her l had better do that,
She don't mean about over the
neIghborhood, and especially when
she goes shopping, but when she
goes to church and Sunday school,
visiting the sick, &c, doing to and
for her as she would have me do,
and to others as / would have them
do to me; doing good generally,
&c. That's right. That's well con
sidered. l ought to, oughtent Ii
l think so. l think I will, at any
rate 1 will try. Would like to be
with her though when she goes
shopping. Does other mems win
min folks go shopping by them
selves2 DO they ever buy more
goods than they have money
to pay for and have bill sent round
Do they ever hint round sorter like
-well:sorter like they would like to
have more money than their hus
bands give them? That other win.
min have a better time than they
do2 That other wives have better
husbands? That other men hire
the cooking, washing, securing,
milking and nursing done? Does
other mems wlmmin folks have
their husband to get the stove
wood, carry the water, wash the
| Il love to wash dishes) sweep the
house, make the beds, do the starch.
ing and ironing, sewing on buttons
dust the furniture, fix the little ones
and big ones too for Sunday SCHOOL,
Sorter hint that their husband.
don't get home as soon as they
ought? Have been where they hat
no business? And what a gooC
time they had before marriage