Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-21
my WIFE,"

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"Shc's a very nice woman, my dear
Mic lebcrry,a very nice woman, in
deed said MIR. Partanbridgc, snyclv
shut YOU allow her to dictate too much
For instance, my vile should never tell
me not /" smoke in the parlor on account
oi the curtains"
1t docs turn EN- yellow" observed
Mr.. Mickl,hcrry, thoughtfully.
"Grantcd-but what becomes of yo,lr
fconin.hl' supcriority7f And then You
didn't buyithat' eornertlot because ishe
,asdly!sed YOU not toi. What is a, woman 5
Judgment worth in a matter Of business
like that, Miciilcbcrry!" 9.H
"Alary knows more than half the men
going, Parentheticaily asserted Mr..
Mick lcbcrry.
License me, Micklebcrry, but YOU
dent keep her in her place, Don't the
Scriptures expressly say that woman is
the weaker vessel: | SHOULD like to see
Mrs. Pariaabridsc vcnturing to oppose
me"
'lf Mr.. Mickchcfry looked admirinSly at
his dig friend. lryuiuO h,ts yia y
!, .ss9. . How 80 you manage it,, Partnn-
briigc?" h questioned, little .timidlv.
"Tact, my f!car fcl!ow2thatct,s dignity,
supremacy. | wouldn't have mentioned
it II circumstances hadn't pointed di-
rectly to The fact, but you are getting
hen-pcckcd, MIicklebcrry. Everybody
notices it. You must gather up the rcns
OF domestic managcmcnt-yuu must as
sert youiseltl"
Alr. Micklebcrry laughed.
"But what is the use of asserting N.Y.
self?" ne asked, loosely. "Evcrythine
goes on like clock work at homc-Mary
always meets me with n smile-shc spends
the money sensibly, and never asks me
Tor an unnecessary cent?
docs she tell you how she spends it,
"Not always, but"
MIR. PaTtanbridge interrupted his
friend with a groan.
son. these women, these women! |
should IKE to see my wife buying a silk
dress, as Mary did last week, without
first consulting me.
''Sut she has saved the money out Of
her housekeeping funds.
"Then, my dear fellow, it's n SIGN
that You give her too much money for
housekeeping. Cut her down-draw
the rurSc-strngs Il little tighter"
Mr.. Al!cAie5erry looked uncomfort
able.
IL should hardly like to do that,
Partanbr!dgc.r
You'll never be master in your own
house until YOU do"
Mr.. Moses Mick!eberry went home and
told his wife all about what Par,anbridpe
had said. Mary laughed and coiored,
but she was little angry witha.
81 wish Mr.. Partanbridge would mind
his own business" said she. ''Gm tired
OF hearing about my wife She must
be poor, spirit!ess concern"
''Partanbridgc is man of great abi-
ity, said Moses, gravely.
"F'iddlcsticks,' said Mrs. Mickleberrv.
"a regular hen hussy-a thorough going
Miss Many"
I'm sorry you feel so about him, my
dear, said Moses; '.for he doesn't like
the place where he is boarding now, and
toll him he might occupy our spare
room for few days"
"Oh, I've no objections to that" said
Mrs. Mickleberry, composedly. Sim
always glad to entertain your friends, nv
dear, even if they are not the most
agreeable people in. the world, and |
dare say can get along with Mr.. Par.
cambridge for few days
you're little jewel, my dear said
Moses, and he forgot all Partaubridoe's
lnsinUations at once.
Mr.. Partanbridge came, bag and bag.
gage, and took possession of the spare
room in the Micklcberry mansion as i'm.
portantly rs if she had been the Grand
lurN. And thenccforward ''my wife" be-
gan, tguratively speaking, to tramplc
Mary Mickleberryinto dust.
"My wife spent no money; "my
wife went nowhere; 'my wife woultl
Slsooners Gut. oil her hand than 90 to a
, woman's rights convention; ,smv wife
was not literary, but spent her days doing
thousework, Eand her evenings incudino
stockings. She held her husband in
sa!utary awe, never spoke when she
wasn't spoken TON short, knew her
place.
l. And how did you manage it, Par.
tanbridge?" asked Mr.. Micklebcrry once
again, in the admiration oil his soul. II
| Mr.. Pag;anbridge waved his hand
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