The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-10-31

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keep them in respectable. even pleas.
ant fashion. But she was unblessed
with any sense Of order, and cursed
with fondness for gadding about. So
she never managed. TO impart the least
sense Of comfort to the house. al weary
succession Of incompetent servants,
each less tolerant than the other of the
mistress foibles, had crossed and re-
crossed the threshold.
During all this time Peter had
certainly endured much. His likes
and dislilxes had never been permitted
TO obstruct his wife's experiments. He
had submitted for a space to vege-
tarianismi he had broken fast on a
winters morn on raw melon aud
homemade whole-meal bread. For
some years, Mrs Augusta Parr-as she
now elected TO style herself-discard-
ing even. her spasmodic interest in
household affairs, had espoused heart
and soul the cause of every new
woman's movement It's objects mat
tered little; her soul principle was to
decry whatever powers and privileges
women possessed, and TO Glamour for
those denied them.
At first, the man had anticipated
pleasure from the companionship of
the child; but The lack of the softening
influence of maternal tenderness, and
the effect of the interminable Rabble
of the inferiority of man, had wrought
in her hardness of manner and a
coarsenesS of thought altogether re-
pellant to a nature intuitively refined.
Presently he realized the impossibility
OF attaining any community of feeling
with her. OF late, the girl almost
woman grown, had chosen to declare
her independence. She had thrown
down the gauntlet to her parent.
announced her intention of acting as
she pleased in all things, and of sub
hitting to no supervision Of any kind.
And the mother, reaping. the crop OF
her own sowing, dare find no fault
with the harvest. The previous dav,
the daughter had quarreled with her
mother, and banging the door behind
her had departed to join an enamel.
pated girl-friend in chambers. In the
evening Mrs. Augusta Parr presided,
in her own drawing room, over an as
semblage large and heated, which dis
cussed the burning question: why are |
We the Slaves of MANI The debate
had been prolonged to late hour; |
now Mrs. Augusta Parr slept the sleep |
of the exhausted slave while her |
master polished her shoes
The kettle boiled over, and Peter |
prepared himself some tea and slices
of bread and butter. II was one of the |
frequent lapses of domestic aid, when
he either cooked for himself or went
without food. He had just commenced
breakfast when a plaintive new from
the kitten reminded him of its exis-
tence. AS he opened the side door to
lift the milk-can a Whit of fresh air
'mote thrill through his senses.
And stunted may tree, its spirit un-
even by years of city inn
orisonment, held a branch of fra
grant hawthorn towards the south.
Leaning against the door post to in
lale the perfume, Peter let his heart
ncline wistfully to dreams of country
badness, till the hour of eight, rung
rom church tower hard by warned
him that he must start in ten minutes
he were to be at his post by nine
o'clock. Turning sadly indoors he
lied Boxers" saucer with milk, and
lifting down at the bare wooden table,
ried to resume his meal. 1t had sud
enly grown distasteful to him. A
pray of the fragrant blossom he had
'lucked lay beside his plate. His was
III the townsman's craving for the
ountryi and, as he munched his bread, |
he vision splendid passed before his
lind's eye. he beheld a low-eaved cot
age with clematis nodding over the
oof and old-fashioned roses peeping in
Z the windows, and a garden with
and hollyhocks whose
talks were as sounding reeds for the
rowsy murmur of bees and the merry |
acltle of fowls, while an open door
evealed a clean kitchen with a bright I
earth and coy arm-chair-the very
bode of peace. .
Then, with the lmpetuous decision of
quiet, slow man, he asked: why
Mould not enjoy these luxuries? The !
leanest farm laborer may indulge :
lem. Why not ~ My days are passed !.
] a fusty city Office, toiling to earn :
'oney; and to, what purpose? That /
lay pay rent and taxes for a house
hichis d horror to me, and that !
Iay provide food and clothes for those '
hose only religion is 10 despise me. z
" wife Is independent of me. Should ]
leave her, she will have little less e
= her campaigns; that IS the worst a
,priyation she will suffer And my y
atrimony, which insures me fortyI g
FUNDS sterlinga year, will mean afiiu-
ice IN some rural spot He thought j