Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
TIE HOME VS.. TIE CLUB
by CARRIE ". ASHTON.

II have tho best little wife in the
world, boys" said Lou Adams, as lie
walked into tho pleasant club-room
IN the great metropolis Of Chicago, that
he used TO frequent SO much in his
bachelor DAYS. "We have been marie Il
Just month, and she is the dearest
little woman iii the world. and perfect
~ devoted 10 me. Why. ii told her
lot to Ito anything that would be suf-
iicicnt. She does not require reasons.
and my word is law to her; she never
argues the question. / tell you, it is
worth getting married iffyou can find
such Il life as mine, She's a little
lcauty, too. I'll bet you'll all be en-.
W lnS me Wien you've seen her. We
just got home from or wedding tour
last night. We faok in all the Sights
OF {oston, Washington and New York.
lcsllcs many other places of interest.
While she was busy mpacking and
getting things Strengthened around, |
just hurried down here 10 see YOU hoys.
lou know ] bought pretty little
house over on Michigan avenue and
gave it TO Hazel for Il wedding present.
You must all come and dine with us
when we get settled
At this, Jones said:
We'll, Lou, are YOU such model
husband? Surely, such wife as yours
must be, Judging from your descrip.
ton, deserves one of the best. | sup
pose you have deserted us, and have
come tonight TO bid lis farewell"
WHY, yes; YOU all know am n
pretty COOL sort oi Il fellow. don't you?
| 4 I
few wild oats when he il boy. but
that don't count AID 80 YOU think
am going 10 desert you just because
am married? Not much lean tell YOU.
Gncss L am my own master, and M
woman Will lead me around hv her
apron strings. Why, tell you. my
wife is II different kind of woman
and she won't try. She has beautiful
home, Il fine horse and carriage, and
all the money she wants to do what she
plcascs with. Is that not enough TO
make any woman contcntcd? lou
needn't think You can get rid OF me 80
soon, boys"
AS the weeks flow by. and Lon fire..
qucnted the club rooms just the same
rs in his bachelor days. his chum,
Fred DeEorest, said, one day
Say, Lon, do yoG know folks are
really talking about the way you are
ncglccting that little brown-cyc,i bride
of yours? You ought TO be the hap
| picst man in the world with such a
wife. Do YOU want TO break her heart
with .your cruel neglect: If her own
| people lived here in Chicago, it might
be little diifcYcnt but to bring hex.
away ont here from home OF aniu-
ence and love, among entire strangers.
and then so Off every evening AID
leave her alone, / tell Won it's n bn..,-
ing shame. How would you like TO De
in her place? j know what you are
going to say that women are differ
ent. Indeed they are, and ii il were
not so, what on earth would become %!
this world? Would yon he willing to
marry n girl who had led the life vol,
have? oh, no; that is altogether d;i.
fercnt. You could not even respect
such a woman, let alone marry her.
And yet you expect thai the p,i.est girl
will give up everything for you and be
glad to be your wife. Can You expect
that women will go on loving just such
men, no matter how much they are
neglected? l know full we'll that the
world frowns on Il woman and encour-
ages man for doing the sclfsame
thing; but that doesn't make il right.
Two wrongs never did make IL right.
Well, l know ] have wenriad YOU with
my long sermon, and perhaps offcnd, d
! you; but remember what have said
has been for your own good and the
dear little girl whom l have learned ia
both honor and respect in the asst few
weeks. But for our long standing
friendship I should never have dared 10
say ali this"
! AS Lou Adams walked slowly home
he soliloquized thus:
Il just wish folks would attend 10
their own business, and rot NEEDLE
with other folks affairs. If Hazel
don't complain. l don't see why any one
else should. can't see rs have neg
lected her, but | guess will skip that
dinner of Jones that promised to 90 to
tonight, and for change stay hons
with Hazel"
AS he passed greenhouse he soi,
ped and bought q most beautiful blI e.
Of Jacqucminot roses sucii A. lie use,
to buy so frequently before his MAJ
yiage. Hazel WAS cxtrcmaly ionI al
roses, and at her own home, in Phiia
delphia, that fine old city of brotherly
love, she had one of the finest of con.
servatories for her exclusive use; and
since her removal to Chicago she had
sadly missed her flowers.
Lou had hardly opened the door
when down rushed Hazel to greet him
OH, so lovingly, and with an excIama.
ton of delight when she saw her roses
They had coy little supper, and then
Lou said
well, Hazel, my dear, I am going
to stay home with you tonight; wont
you sing for me like good girl?"
| Not one song, but many, did she
sing In her rich contralto voice; anG