The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-04-29
A WIFE'S REVENGE.

A WIFE'S REVENGE.
Nellie Palmer was lying on the
lounge in her pretty bedroom crying
and looking very unhappy. And yet
she had been married only six months,
and to such mice handsome man :"
as all the young ladies declared, that
surely she ought to have been happy
with him. And so she had been, until
until. to tell the truth, Mr.. Bob
Palmer, forgetting or seeming to for
get that he was a married man, had
recently taken to flirting with these
very young ladies at all the parties in
Middleton, leaving his wife to take
care of herself. Surely it was enough
to make any six months wife cry
especially one so sensitive as Nellie.
Hello! been crying again. l de-
clare!" exclaimed Mr.. Bob Palmer,
suddenly ceasing his whistle, as he en-
tered the room, on returning from his
office. whats the matter now, Mel
lieP Canary refused to sing, or
Madame Viglini not put flowers enough
in your bonnet?"
'Oh. Bob, how can you?" sobbed
Nellie, beginning afresh.
'.Look here, Ellen" said her hus-
band, sitting down on the lounge, and
speaking more seriously: Il don't
like this at all. / never come home
that your eyes are not red and swollen
with CRYING. What have you to cry
about, should like to know? It's an
insult to me to go on sniveling about
the house after this fashion, and mop
i'm in 1ar
and miserable, as you did last night,
think me perfect domestic tyranti"
help it. indeed. do feel so miserable.
You make me so. Bob"
81! Well, that is rich! Perhaps you'll
be good enough to let me know o1
what enormity I've been guilty that
has turned you into a modern Niobe?'
Nothing really wrong, dear; but,
oh! if you knew how much wife
thinks of her husbands love; and
Here poor Nellie broke down again.
Mr.. Palmer's eyes opened very wide.
"WhewT' whistled he; IF this isn't
really absurd. So she's jealous!"
Indeed, no. dear Bob! But-but
-'' she could hardly speak for the
choking in her throat-"you can't un.
derstand the pride a woman takes in
having her husband treat her with af.
fection and respect before any one. oil
how it humbles and mortifies her to be
neglected by him, and have other wom
en- consider themselves rivals-like Is
abel Baden"
Mr.. Bob Palmer laughed outright,
and then he grew angry.
you're an absurd little fool, Mel.
| lie," he said. LAS if Isabel Baden
were anything to me beyond pleas
ant and agreeable young woman tc
amuse ones self with at party. Non
sense!n
'.She don't think so," said Nellie
"and-and the others don't think so
They all think you are getting tired o
your wife, and Isabel hatters hersel
that she has cut me out, and is trying
to let people see it."
''Fiddlesticks, said Bob, rising i'm
patiently from the lounge. Pm as
tonished at you, Nellie, and had reall.
given you credit for more sense a
well as temper" he added severely
II wish you'd amuse yourself in SO
ciety, as do, instead of going mopini
about in this fashion. You can't eX
pect to have me tied to your aprol
strings; and I'd much rather see yo
flirting little yourself than skulkin!
away in holes and corners, like
spider, watching your butterfly of
husband, to see if you can't detect hir
in doing wrong. You make m
ashamed of you, declare"
Mr.. Palmer took his hat and wake
out of the room with an air of mingle
dignity and injured innocence. H
wife sat up, wiped away her tears, an
mused awhile with eyes flashing an
cheeks flushed with wounded and il
dignant feeling.
Yes" she said to herself, ''since
has requested it will amuse myself {
he does and see how he likes i
Ashamed of me, is he? And he di
+ not used to be so when l was gay an
happy. Oh, Bob. if you only kne
how loved your
And once more despite her resolut
ly closing her eyes and pressing h,
fingers upon them, the tears wou
come.
There was to be, that very evenin;
a party at Colonel Johnson's; and Ne
) lie took particular pains in dressir
herself for it. She had been of la
rather careless on this point, and W
now rewarded for her extra care
her husbands glance of approval, al
his remark that that pink silk was b
coming to her. In consequence h
eyes and cheeks were brighter, al
her spirits more buoyant, as she e
tered Mrs. Johnson's crowded dra'
ing-rooms. Scarcely had they pa
their respects to the hostess, when NJ
Palmer accosted, or rather, was 6
costed by Miss Baden, brilliant, co
fident girl, who tried to ensnare hi
before his marriage; and at the SAL
moment a gentleman addressed MI
Palmer. She answered mechanical
unable to withdraw her attention e
tirely from her husband and his CO
panion, until seeing something in M
Baden's glance at herself which S
, did not like, her pride again awo
? and she turned, as with a sudden {
= termination, to the gentleman at
= side. He was recent conner to
> town-very pleasant and handsome
2 and Nellie Palmer forthwith began
} try and make herself agreeable
him. He looked so pleased, and v
himself so agreeable that it soon C
her no effort to converse; and then
old spirits returned and to her s
prise, she found that she was enjoyi
herself Her husband didn't much
tice this, but Miss Baden did, and
filtration with Mr.. Palmer lost mi
of it's charm, now that his wife did !
appear mortified and jealous, and t