The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-10-11


let you stay at home forever. as some
men let their wives, or make them
you'd soon lose those pretty checks
OF yours and by-and-by even your
spirits! and at last you'd become a
dowdy, If not a confirmed invalid.
Put plant in cellar if you want to
kill it; give it fresh air and sunshine
If you would have it bloom. Now
there's that fellow, Trevor. | felt,
to-day, as if would like to thrash
him.
Surely Mr.. Trevor has nothing to
do with my going out! exclaimed
Mrs. Chanter, in surprise:
But he has with his wife's. The
lrevors are ask d to the Sillimans
But this lazy fellow of a husband SAYS
he don't intend to let Mrs. Trevor
go! It's time to put stop to the
thing he told me.
Why, the doesn't work half as
hard as you do! I've always heard
his business was very easy one.
SO it is. He's richer. too, than | |
am. and can afford to take life differ
emily. But he was always selfish and
tyrannlcal, as poor Helen will find
out to her cost. Pity she hadn't
found it out long ago.
Also! she had already begun to
find it out, and as the years went by
she found it out more and more. She
soon sank into a mere household
drudge. Her husband did not desert
his wife; he went neither to tavern;
nor to club; we will say that in his ia !
vor; but he ebetook himself to his news :
paper and segar, varied with an
occasional doze. As he hardly ex- 7
changed word with poor Helen =
she might as we'll have been a thous- :,
and miles away. She sat in the same
room with him stitching stitching, T
till her eyes ached with the monotonv is
and weariness OF it all.
In the first year or two of their v,
married life, he had continued the r.
subscriptions to the two or three mag n
azlnes and newspapers which had +,
been her favorites before she left her ;s
fathers house. But after awhile he ar
had them stopped. What does a -
married woman wait with love stor- r.
les! he said imperiously, forgetting
hat the mag azine was as much to 60
lis wife as his newspaper was to or
llm. Often and often poor Helen
hought that if she could only have d.
few books, good novel, new ~,
'oem, or periodical of some kind, -
he could have borne things better. 80
Her life was so dry and hard that 49,
ven the least glimpse of the world -.
# imagination would have been to -,
er what the cool spring in the de- -.
ert is to the weary, thirsty traveller o.,
tut her husband said, in his dog
1atlc way, when once or twice, she
to borrow book, and he
'und her reading, Pshaw A novel ~ ,
gain; how can you waste your A
me with such nonsense; a pretty IN
you are setting to your ~
Mrs. Trevor had been pretty, as ~, ~
e have said, when she married. ~
ut, in less than ten years she was "
ded, shrunken women, whose nerves
ere all worn away, and who was
st sinking into a confirmed invalid
efore she had been married, twenty WI, ""'
:ars, before her eldest daughter ~ .ana
IS grown girl, she quietly slipped ,o1' M
to her coffin, and had done with u"S'
is life forever. Her husband put '"e
black, and wore the deepest ~
ape on his hat, and went about '"o' WV
ling people of his inconsolable loss o'u "
Il then otta- -:-1 table
ain. from
Meantime, v hat of the other pair? '''eo
-day, at forty, Mrs. Chanter is as '@e"'
ndsome as ever, people say, and, '|', %
en- she goes out with her daueh ehter y" u
'ses, with strangers, for an elder y" -
.er. Her mind has not been starry i'
nor be- so,,1 do.e.I ~, subsc
icious amusement ;s &c neoas..-,. ingly
a woman, her husband always 'i'e a
/, as food, or air, or affection. 10" L
this principle he acted. The
ult was that his wife always kept ACU
spirits, her health, and her good
ks, and from being thoroughly 10
'py herself, was able to make him Gu co
the happier. collee
'ou may starve human soul, 'i'hlt
often declared, just as easily as when
body. And some do it. sun 81
erhaps he was tbinkino ofTrevo- gather
le spoke. Whether he was, or oook
the recording angel was CONS
when the accounts Gonna cognil
e made up, in the great chancery and W
heaven, there will be little there
BIT as to which of the two hus- follow
is will win the verdict kerchi
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