Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-11

And when the reason she would know
He closer leaned and whispered low,
Because sweetheart, I love you so''-
Blue eyes and brown more earnest grow
''You know, dear heart. love you So"
Gone is the Yuletide's CHEEKY glow
In fern lined haunts the yiolets grow.
Again the cuprit's head droops low,
AS swings the lazy hammock slow.
| "Forgive me, dear, ! love you SOIL
And she forgiyes, ! almost know,
| Because, you see, he loves her SO.
Nell Carey in Times Democrat.
A MISERABLE WIFE.
eyes, professor, am afraid shall
have to rent or sell the farm; my wife
is so miserable. I cannot carry it ON
without hiring, and hiring eats up all
the profits. y
l looked at the speaker admiringly.
He was about so years old, and as ro-
bust as a man of 80. His whiskers were
neatly trimmed, showing a full, red
cheek. He wore jaunty hat and natty
cutaway coat, and below his vest hung
a single fob and heavy gold seal. was
proud of him. He was such a perfect
specimen of a New York gentleman
from the rural districts that I wanted
to imprint his picture on my memory.
$50 your wife is miserable?"
Eyes. Kinder dropping, with a dry
cough and no ambition. She just kinder
| drags around the house and looks so
peaked and scrawny it gives me the
blues. 1t does, swan"
Naturally weakly, wasn't she?''
"Shel Oh, no. When I married her,
she was the smartest girl on the creek.
She used to work for my father, and
the way she made the work stand around
took my eye. She was a poor girl and
her industry got her rich husband. -
Here he took out gold watch, looked
at the time, put it back and adjusted
the silk fob ON the front of his nicely
fitting trousers,
$50 she did well, getting married on
account of her industry"
"Why, of course. She was getting
only So. 80 week, and she became mis-
tress of a farm.
Excuse me, but how much are you
worth now-confdentially, you know!
I am a scientific man and will never
use such facts to your injury with the
assessor. "
'Well, professor, could crowd $780,
900 pretty hard. ~
''That is good. How long have you
been married."
'sFhirty years next Fourth of July.
We went down to Albany on little
teeter, and proposed the match and
Jane was willing"
How much do you suppose you have
made In these 80 Year,"
"Hum-um-lemme see I got the
Davis farm the first ten years, then /
run in debt for the Simmons place, got
war prices for my cheese and squared
up both places Well, I think I have
cleared up $50, 900 since we spliced. 7"
every good indeed. And your wife
has been great help all this time?''
"Oh, you bet She was rattler!
She took care of her baby and the milk
from 20 cows. I tell you she made the
tinware fopl Why, we have had four
children, and she never had hired girl
over six months in that time
''Sp1endid, and you have cleared $50,
900 in that timer
eyes, easy
"Now, how much has your wife
made?"
"She? Why, durn 1t. professor. she is
my wife.
81 know it. But what has she made?
You say she was poor when you married
her Now, what has she made?"
"Why, you beat all Why, she is my
wife, and we own it all together"
"Do you? Then she can draw on your
bank account? Then she has horse and
carriage when she wants them? Then
she has servant girl when she wants
one? Then she rides out for her health.
and has watch and gold chain as you
do? Is that so?"
Professor, you must be crazy. No
body's wife is boss in that shape. Who
ever heard of such thing?"
'sNow, look here. You say she did
well in marrying rich, and I cannot see
it. If she was getting So. 80 per week
when you married her and had saved
her wages, she would have had now
SO, 900. If she had invested it, she
would have had So, 000 Now you tell
me she is broken down, used up and
miserable, and looks SO badly she makes
you sick, and she has no money, no help
and will probably get nothing but a
Scotch granite tombstone when she
dies. -
Professor. if you was younger
man, would kick you quicker'n a
spring lamb can jump thistle. y
"What for? I am stating this case
fairly, am not? Your wife is no longer
young. She is no longer handsome. Her
hands are as hard as local editors
cheek, and she has stopped over milk
can until she has a hump on her back
like peddler. =
"Shut up, will you?"
'She has raised four children One
of them is at college. One is taking mu-
sic lessons in Boston. The other two are
teaching school She is at home alone,
RO11lR dIOullQ III q bIOdOlu11l Liz Wu1Cu
will end in rosewood coffin and first
class country funeral p
''Stop that, professor, will you?'
aWhile you are still handsome
man, with just enough gray in your
whiske.s to make you look interesting.
No doubt you have been thinking Of
some nice young girl of Is who would
Jump at the chance to marry your 80
BOWS and 20 acres Of hops. s"
Professor, ! won't stay here if you
don't let up on that. =
'sAnd your wife does not look well in
that new Watertown wagon, SO you
take your hired man and neighbor' Is
girls to meeting. Your wife never goes
anywhere, SO you do not get her waSsh
like your own, nor new silk dress, MOI
pony that she could drive, nor bas-
ket phaeton that she could climb into
without ladder. She never says any
thing, SO you have not got her set OF
teeth like your own, gold and rubber.