Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
my WIFE,"

"Shc $ very nice woman, nv dear
Micklcbcrry, a very nice woman. in
decd said Mr.. partanbridgc, saycly;
"but you allow her to dictate too much
For instance, my wife should never tell
me not to smoke in the pan lor on account
Of the curtains"
cit does turn 'cin yellow" observed
Mr.. Mickltberry, thouyhtfully.
"Granicd-but what becomes Of vour
conJuSal superiority. And then YOU
didn L buy that corner lot because she
advised you not to! What is a womnn's
Judgment worth in matter of business
like that, Micklcbcrry."
"Mary knows more than half the men
going. larcnthctically asserted Mr..
Alicklcberry.
Excuse me, Micklebcrry, but YOU
Gcu't keep her i'll her place, Don't the
Scriptures expressly say that woman is
the weaker vessel: should like To see
Mrs. PartanbriGgc vcnturing to oppose
me-
MIR. Micklcbcrry looked admirinSly at
MS big friend
"!iow do you manage it, Par,an-
bridge he questioned, Il little timidly.
Tact, my Gear fcllow-tact, dignity.
supremacy. wouldn't have mentioned
1t II circumstances hadn't pointed di-
rcctly to the fact, but YOU are pcttipu
hcn-pcckcd, Mickcbcrry. Everybody
notices 1t. You must gathering the rcins
OF domestic mana"cment-you must as
scrt youisclf!'
Mr.. MicElcbcrry laughed.
. ,rh,t ~, -
sclf?' he asked, jocosely. "Evcrythinc
goes on like clock work ut homc-Mnry
always meets me with smlc-shc spen,is
the money scnsibly, and never asks ME
iof an unnecessary cent"
does she tell you how she spends it?"
"Not always, but"
Mr.. Par;anbrdge interrupted lis
friend with groan
"Oh. these women these women!
should like to see my wife trvinu sill,
dress, as Mary did last week, withou,
first consulting me-"
but she has saved the money out of
her housekeeping funds"
Then, my dear fellow, it's sign
that You give her too much money for
housekeeping. Gut her down-t!raw
the pursc-strings a little tighter"
MIR. Mickie5crry looked uncomfort.
able.
IL should hardly like to do that,
Parlanbr;dgc."
you'll never be master in your own
house until You do"
Mr.. Moses Micklebcrry went home and
told his wife all about what Partanbridre
had said. Mary laughed and coiored,
but She was Il little angry withal.
81 wish Mr.. Partanbridge would mind
his own business" said she. "l'm tired
Of hearing about my wife She must
be poor, spiritIcss concern
"partanbridgc is II man of great abil-
ity said Moses, gravely.
"Fidde,ticks, said Mrs. Micklcberrv.
ga regular hen hussy-a thorough poing
Miss Many"
"rm 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"
ION, I've no objections to that," said
Mrs. Alickleberry, composcdly. "I'm
always glad to entertain your friends, my
DEAR even If they arc not the most
agreeable people in the world, and I
dare say can get along with Mr.. Par
cambridge for n few days
You're little jewel, my dear" said
Moses, and he forgot all Partanbridyes
lnsnuations ut once.
Mr.. Partanbridge came, bag and bag
gage, and took possession of tne "spare
room in the Mickcbcrry mansion as i'm
portantly rs if she had been the Grand
Turk. And then ceforward "my wife" be-
gan iisuratively speaking, to trampc
Diary MicSleberry into dust.
"My wife" spent no money. ..my
wife went nowhere; "my wife would
sooner cut of her hand than go to a
woman's rights conventions; .'my wife"
was not literary, but spent her days doing
homework, and her evenings mendine
stockings. She held her husband in
sa!atary awe, never spoke when she
wasn't spoken TON short, knew her
place.
"And how did you manage it, Par
tanbridge?' asked Mr. AIickleberry once
again, in the admiration OF his soul.
Mr.. Partanbridge waved lis hand