Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-13

honestly said that
she could do more work in one day
than he could do in seven. But that
man left no children, and his race Is
gone from the face of the earth, for
now 10 man viii attempt to change
OCCUPATIONS with his wife, in the first
place, nor would he own up to the
truth with such good grace.
All men now content themselves
with finding fault with their wives
management of the household, but
they do not banker after q trial of 1t.
When q woman has a sick headache,
and has to give up the reIns OF govern
ment for q day to the husband, he
shows his superior capacity by letting
the children run riot, by spelling
everything he undertakes to do, by
making the house look as if the plague
of the seven years. 1Ocusts had all con
centrated into that one house, and
devastated it to utter desolatiOn; and
then, when the pale shadow of the
suffering wife makes her appearance
again, and stands aghast at the dread
full sight, he is actually aggrieyed, and
puts his hat on and goes off In fit of
sulks, and it takes her at least q week
to repair the ravages of one day Of alb
sence from the helm.
The careful little wife viii go,to mar
ket, and look about her with far-seeing
eyes, and no butcher or other dealer
can shake her resolution in the ques-
ton of cuts" or other necessities.
She knows Just what she wants, and
how much. She may not be able to
keep books by double and twisted en-
try. but she knows how much she wants
to spend and what for, and she goes
home with good, wholesome, cheap and
suitable merchandise, each article
adapted to the other, and enough for
two or three days, three meals each,
and one. extra meal out Of the remain
der. She looks at a. joint with a view
to hash, or ragout, or pies, or minced
meat, or some other future possibilities,
and in her quick brain she mentally
divides the joint into so much for each
member of the family, and so much to
be left over for something else. She
buys her marketing with a clear knOWl-
| edge of her subject, and can make ten
! dollars go as for as q man can twenty,
and still save herself a nice silk dress
/ in a season besides.
/ Watch her husband IN the market,
/ when he decides to. take the reins of
/ government in his hands. because his
! wife is extravagant. just see the
/ keen and yOu-can' t-cheat-me kind OF an
! air which he adopts, and which the
market men know like q book. He
isn't going to be fooled, not he. I VIII
spare the reader the harassing details,
and only say that when he goes home
| with his economy his Mortified wife
/ finds that he has bought the choicest
cuts, and enough Of them to last four
days at least, but that he has got all
things that must be used at least with
in two days, or they viii spoil, and the
same way with the vegetables.
He has spent nearly twice as much
money as she would have done, and
got a lot of perishable material, and
forthwith he gets angry and says mean
things if she opens her lips IN mild
protest.
The real facts of the case are that
whenever a man grows dissatisfied with
his homo under the management of his
wife, there is something wrong. Either
he is extrayagant himself, and wants to
curtail the legitimate expenses Of his
family for his own selfish pleasures, or
he is bilious, and wants good dose OF
blue mass, with lots of ipecac thrown
in, or his affairs are going badly, or he
is allowing himself to degenerate into
that most disagreeabIe creature-a
cross old man. Chicago Ledger.