Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04
The Napp Habit.

New York Weekly; Whatever else
you do, young wife, don't nag the
man you have married. Burn his bread,
give him pies and cake that you learned
how 10 make at the cooking school, al
low his heels and his toes the inestimable
privilege of free ventilation, spend his
money, if you can get it to spend, bu,
for sweet charity's sake, don't mag
him.
A husband is a fellow creature. He
has rights which ought to be respected.
And a fault finding woman is worse than
a smoking chimney in a perpetual north
east rainstorm.
The nagging woman will meet her
husband in the hall, and open fire on him
before he gets off his overcoat.
James, did on get that braid | sent
for? No? Well, l hardly expected you
would. This is the third time you have
forgotten it. Why didn't l write ii
down. Write it down! Dear me! If
was a man and managed a business like
yours, I'd see if l couldn't remember
such a little thing as 10 cents worth of
braid without having it down in black
and white.
Now, James, | must speak to you
about that sink pipe before | forget it.
1. leaks into the cellar. We shall all die
of diphtheria and typhoid fever if that
pipe is not attended. l had the headache
all night. and it must have been the gas
from that pipe. No, James, IL was no,
a.. ->ll .ty.~n atn mat hnf.>rn nntn1
to bed. Indeed, ii was not. How absurd
you are
and there is Mary Ann so put on
with the coal at the bottom of the biz
that she declares she will give notice 10
morrow. And dear mother just coming
to make her annual visit, tool
and the man that painted the from
door was here yesterday with his bill.
Such a bill Ten dollars for painting &
door! Why, could have painted il my
self for half that money.
and oh, James, | DO wish we could
have stained glass in our hall, Gs the
Joneses / c got in theirs I'm sure
Jones does At make any more money thai
you do, and stained glass has such AZ
aris.ocratic look. Itimpresses one, when
one goes into a house, 10 meet II. Can
afford it? Well, | am not at all dlsap.
pointed. / eXpec ed that was what yOr
would say. That's what you always say
when | have particularly set my mind or
anything. 1t does seem. james. as if OF
sat up nights to study out how TO Ve>
and tbwa1t me- Oh, dear! how muct
better off a woman is not to marry! Ii
had only known AS much before marriag,
AS | know now-but there It's no use /,
wish! James, If we can't have anything
else like other folks, | should ike TO
you TO wipe your boots before you st,
into the parlor. OF course, | don't eX
pect that you will do so, now that yo'
Know that ! want you TO; but though
| would speak of il Some men are 81
carelessl But, then, others are not Now
there is MIR. Roberts. He never carrie
in a grain Of dirt, I've heard his wife say
time and again, aud he puts on his slip
pers in the hall.
James, the clothes wringer handle i
broken. Mary Ann declared yesterda
tn At she'd never try To wiring anCthe
rag of clothes with it. And | declar,
James, you must speak to the mllkmar
The milk this morning was blue M tn
/ sky. Oh, dear, I wish you would pu
down that newspaper long enough fC
me to tell you about it. Reading abo,
Harrison's new appointments, are you
Well, do let them wait. There's been to
much fuss about them already. l ha'
politicsl A man is always reading pol
tics when his wife wants to talk to hi
about household matters"
And then she goes out of the in
pet, and slams the door behind her.
Dent be like her.