The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-12
4 DANGEROUS HAeIT.
How % Lovely Woman Destroyed Her HOm
with Rocking Chairs.

OFNtNS -HaO0O A'FNDs -
How u Lovely Woman Destroyed Her Home
with Rocking-Chairs.
l believe that the alarming increase
of divorce in this country during the
past two or three years is due in a very
great measure to the rocking-chair
habit
Many men will rise up in alarm and
terrible evil, for the rocking-chair habit
has insidiously fastened its fangs upon
the women of our country. A few
years ago they were content with one
plain, unpretentious rocking-chair, but
now, alas, the indulgent husband looks
aghast upon his first annual expendi-
ture for rocking-chairs, and then goes
out and makes an assignment.
/ knew a lovely bride who was en-
dowed with many graces of mind and
person and all the charms of tender,
conhding wOmanhood; she was the idol
of fond husband, the pride of tender
parents and the charm of a wide circle
of tried and true friends. She and her
husband were not Yich, save in love,
but they had pretty home and were
happy.
She began with just one rocking
chair. Even the second caused no
alarm. Perhaps the fond and indul-
gent husband may have encouraged her
habit thus far, and thus unconsciously
helped the one dearest to him on earth
to that course which could have but
one ending. From the second rocking
chair the way is easy to the third, the
fourth, the fifth and even to the sixth.
And yet when this woman possessed
-. H.. F,.s, 4
seem to realize hcr danger. They NAV
have been bi ID by affection.
When this fair young wife had a
dozen rocking-chairs and still craved
for more, her husband began gently to
demonstrate with her, but he was too
late. The habit had become too firmly
fixed. After one or two feeble efforts
to reform, she gave up in despair and
rushed on in her mad career of buying
rocking-chairs. All day long she hung
about the furniture stores. She bought
big and little rocking-chairs, new
fashioned and old fashioned rocking
chairs, upholstered and hard -bottomed
Tocking-chairs, camp and wicker rock
ng-chairs-thus she went on until the
furniture in that once happy little
home seemed to the tortured husband
one vast collection of rocking-chairs of
every size, style, shape and condition.
When that sorrow-stricken but pa
tient man would come home from the
lodge at the still hour of midnight a
large able-bodied rocking-chair would
meet him almost at his door and knock
him to the floor and fall over upon him.
Then, as he would rise to his feet, an
other rocking-chair would lay him low,
and bring down upon his head shower
of bric-a-brac. And thus he would 20
from rocking-chair to rocking-chaiE
until he would reach his own chamber,
where thirteen rocking-chairs would
meet him in rapid succession and have
a very large amount of fun with him.
Each one as he would meet it would
knock fresh piece of bark from one
or the other of his shins or break a toe
that had escaped earlier in the battle.
and would then throw him violently to
the floor And his wife, whose reason
was tottering on its throne from tho
effects Of her terrible habit, would get
up and strike a light and try to per-
suade him that there was only one
rocking-chair in the room, just one
plain, ordinary chamber rocking-chair
which he in his wanderings around
in the dark had fallen over thirteen
times.
Poor dcluded woman! With his
shins barked in thirteen places, and
some twenty other wounds and con-
tusiOns on various parts Of his person,
the husband would be too much vexed
to humor the dclusiOns Of his wife's
disordered brain, and, holding himself
erect by placing one arm around the
bed-pOst and using the most emphatic
language, he would point to the thir-
teen rocking-chairs sitting about him
in circle. True, they were all Of the
same pattern, but that was nothing; the
time was when he had seen twenty
rocking-chairs of the same genuine
style all in one room.
Such scenes could lead to but one
ending. Love could not continue 10
abide amid such occurrences. At first
there were mere mutterings, then came
more emphatic language, and finally
separation and divorce.
There is nothing that will disrupt a
home so quickly as tall, able-bodied
Toeking-chair, standing fair IN mans
way when he is hunting for his bed OF
something in the dark; and the tail,
able-bOdied king-chair never stands
elsewhere than in 4 mans way when
he is hunting for any thing in the dark.
1t meets him with extreme suddenness.
It throws out no warning that IL Is
there and about TO strike, and the de-
fenseless victim goes down in heap,
confused and demoraliZed wreck of hu-
manity, while the rocking-chair, in its
own peculiar demoniacai way, jumps
ard dances upon his PROSTATE form.
Sweet woman. beware of the rock
ing-cbair habit, and man, oh! man,
hearken we unto the words that utter
Give the tall. able-bodied rocking.
chail elbow room at midnight holy
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