St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-01
he danger of having pretty hired girl

the danger of having pretty hired girl
in the house. ABRAHAM was approach
ing his fourscore years, too, SO there
was nothing to forecast the domestic
trouble which afterwards befell that
happy Judaan home. There was con-
test for supremacy between the two
women. The result is known. HAGAR
was fired, and SARAH remained as boss
of the ranch.
SARAH had hard life of it in many
respects. ABRAHAM was Bohemian
in disposition, and was always on the
move. He changed circuits as often as
a Methodist preacher, and his poor wife
never had time to more than get one
home comfortably fixed up than she had
to pull up and go to another one..
ABRAHAM was great person,
but he was man. He was
fair representative of the aver
age husband the world over. He
loved his ease. and would have it with
on his wife. 1t was very hot country
where the eminent patriarch lived, and
the suns rays came down with blister
ing heat. During the hot hours of the
day ABRAHAM would pull his easy chair
out under the shade of tree in front of
his residence and sit there tanning HIM
self, while his wife was stewing over
the hot embers in the kitchen prepar-
ing dinner. Just like a man, for the
world.
And then, just like the husbands of
to-day, ABRAHAM was hoSpitable at his
wife's expense. 1t never occurred to
him that when he entertained company
he was just putting that much extra
labor on the little woman who had been
his good angel through all the vicissi-
tudes of his eventful career. So
boundless was his generous nature
toward everybody but his wife, he would
hail every tramp that came along the
road and invite him into dinner, know
ing very we'll that SARAH would haYe
to do the cooking. So great was ABRA-
HAMS reputation for this sort of busi-
ness, that when couple of angels came
around to visit him one day, they had
to disguise as tramps to make sure of
being entertained. Still ABRAHAM was
no worse IN his day and generation than
the average husband of these times.
They all do it.
And worst of all, ABRAHAM was a
jealous old fellow.He was so much afraid
that AB1NIELECH would fall in love with
the wife of his bosom, he actually de-
MED her on the occasion of his visit to
II tria fn hnr off nj
maiden sister. What a humiliation to
impose upon princess when visiting
strange country.
But SARAH reaped the reward of all
her labor and devotion and humiliation
at least. When she died her husband
bought her spank new sepulcher and
gave her the biggest funeral that had
ever been seen in that part Of the cOun-
try. What a compensation for 107
years of toll and wifely fidelity. What
an encouragement for the wives of this
age to drag through their self-sacrIfic-
ing existence, to bear children and to
have the care of rearing them, to have
all the worries of the household, to sub
nit with enforced cheerfulneSS to all the
whims of a cranky husband, and then
to know that at the end of life's pill
grimage there is a cave in Macpelah
where they can lie down to an endless
rest. There is comfort for these wives
in the thought that at last, brought to
realize their worth, these husbands will
stand up before their dead and mourn
for them and weep for them-and then
go off and marry another woman,jus as
ABRAHAM did.