Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-23
How Mrs. Jones Managed
Her Husband.

or ana his Wl1e, VINO may OIIen De
seen in town on Saturday afternoons,
trading off butter and eggs for gro
ceries. / believe they always drive
two white horses to a little carriage,
and are what the world calls sspretty
good sort of people, but the world
don't know anything about the awful
time that rosy-cheeked, smiling faced
woman had getting her husband, jed
ediah Jones, Esq, cut out to suit her
own mind because, you see, he had
had first wife, an easy sort of a wo-
man who let her husband do just as
he pleased, and never said a word
back. There are very few such wo-
men nowadays, and when they are,
they don't live long, land SO, of course,
Rachel Jane, number one, soon died,
leaving Jedediah all alone with his
faults, to hunt up another woman.
Well, Jedediah had had such an easy
time with his first wife that he was in
a powerful hurry to take another, be-
Geving all women to be angels.
Now the greatest fault this man
had was poking his nose into some
thing that was none of his business.
His new wife called it "cot-bettying,"
o.1 rx-ac Jo+o,,,,;noI ~ brooI hin, of
it.
1t was very annoying to a woman
with such spirit as Sarah Ann Jones
to have her husband leave his work
out doors five or six times day to
see what she was doing in the house.
As the honeymoon wore Off became
more and more unbearable, until
Sarah Ann at last determined she
would have no more of it.
One day in particular he seemed
more "cotty'' than usual, for in going
out to his work, he stopped in the
shed to turn the broom brush part
down, saying as he did so: "Sarah
Ann, don't you know any better than
to turn a broom upside down? Ra-
chel Jane never did such a thing
81 am mistress now, and not Ra-
chel Jane," said Sarah Ann, as she
stepped out to turn up the broom
again.
He cast upon her look of defiance
which meant that war had commenc-
ed, and he would see who came off
Accordingly, much earlier in the
day than usual, he came into the
house and lifted the lid of the dinner
pot to see what he was going to have
for dinner.
"Humph," he grunted, ''you bile
your taters in too much water. You
don't want MORN the bottom of that
pot covered with water. Steam will do
the rest,' and he lifted up the pot
and poured out half the water, but
no sooner done than Sarah Ann slip
ped in more water, saying: ''Who's
billing these pertaters, you or me?"
Jedediah, thinking it better not to
notice the fresh addition of water,
began to gather up all the chairs and
slip them, seats first, under the extern
sion table.
"Ill not have my chairs put out of
sight in that way said Sarah Ann.
you make the room look as empty
IS barn. and she began scattering
hem about again, one near little |
stand under a window, until the old |
cosy look came back, much to Jede-
liah's disgust, who went up stairs,
,lamming the door behind him.
Mrs. Jones could hear a great deal I
If hauling and moving up above her,
'ut thought it best, just then, to keep
IN getting dinner. Mr.. Jones soon
came down, looking very red in the
ace, but triumphant, as he passed
IN out doors.
81 must go up and see what he has
,een about said Mrs. Jones to her.
elf.
She found her bedsteads, bureaus,
towel-lacks and chairs
I'll arranged on one side Of the rooms,
While the other three sides were left
entirely bare. She was so angry that
t did not take her many minutes to
ret things back in their old positions,
md down stairs she went just in time
% meet her husband coming in to din
Ter.
ssLook here" she said with fash
ne eyes, eff [ am not capable of
this house, the quicker you
get another housekeeper the better
81 reckon a man has a right to
nave things in his own house just as
he sees fit -
s'Then | suppose you will concede |
the same right to a woman when she
neglects her own work to slip out
doors to help the managing there?
ssThat's another thing" grunted
Mr.. Jones. s'Rachel Jane and | got
along like turtle doves, never had a
quarrel in our lives
"And you meddled with the indoor
affairs when she was alive just as you
do now"
cit was Rachel James pleasure to
let me have things just as | wanted
them"
ssNo wonder she died, then; but |
want you to understand, Jedediah
Jones, that l will have none of your
interference in the house. You at
tend to your own business and I'll at
tend to mine"
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