The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-16

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 l
run in debt for the Simmons place, got
war prices for my cheese and squared
up both places Well, / think I have
cleared up $50, 900 since we spliced."
very good indeed. And your wife
has been great help all this timer
"Oh, you bet She was a rattlerl
She took care of her baby and the milk
from 20 cows. tell you she made the
tinware f1opl Why, we have had four
children, and she never had hired girl
over six months in that time -
Splendid and you have cleared $780,
900 in that timer
eyes, easy.
'Now, how much has your wife
nader
"she? Why, durn it, 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 a horse and
carriage when she wants them? Then
she has a 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 a thing?"
Now, look here. You say she did
well in marrying rich, and cannot see
it, If she was getting So. so per week
when you married her and had saved
her wages, she would have had now
$1,000. If she had invested it, she
would have had So, 600. 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 a younger
man, I would lick you quicker'n a
spring lamb can jump a thistle.
What for? am stating this case
fairly, am 1 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 a milk
can until she has hump on her back
like peddler. -
"Shut up, will your"
"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,
going around in treadmill life which
will end in a rosewood coffin and first
class country funeral'-
"Stop that, professor, will your"
while you are still handsome
man, with just enough gray in your
whiskers 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 30
COWS and 90 acres of hops"
Professor, / won't stay here if you
don't let up on that. -"
'And your wife does not look well in
that new Watertown wagon, so you
take your hired man and neighbours
girls to meeting. Your wife never goes
anywhere, SO you do not get her a watch
like your own, nor new silk DRESS nor
a pony that she could drive, nor a 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.
ana ner nose is pushed up into her fore
head and her face wrinkles. She never
goes out. She has to work in the kitchen,
SO she gets no nice shoes like yours. +"
Darn my skin if l don't''-
No, you won't. You will just let
her work right along, and then you will
marry some high fier who will pull
every hair out of your head and serve
you right too. "
Professor, for mercy's sake, stopl"
when you know, and / know, that
If your wife had a chance to rest and
had nice clothes like other women she
would be one of the best looking women
of her age in the town."
ST swan believe it..
''And, old as she is, if you were
to get out the carriage next Sunday
and drive around with the colts and
tell her you wanted her to go to meeting
with you, she would actually blush
with pleasure.
"Darned if I don't do it.
"Then, Monday, if you were to tell
her you were going to hire girl, and
that she must sit in the sitting room by
Al,o Y,5oIro1 xo1a<o1 e4< and |
work on that new silk dress you are 60
ing to buy her.
Professor, that's me-"
Sand then hand her a nice wallet
with steel clasps and with five nice new
$40 notes in it, and tell her to do her
own trading after this, because you
have got tired looking after SO much
81 will, as sure as you live.
"And then, when the tear starts in
her eye, and the same old blush comes
out that you thought was so nice when
you went ON that teeter to Albany, if
you would kiss her.
tits all right, professor. ("
''Then, my friend, l should begin to
think she had made something by mar
rying rich man. +"
you're right, old man. F"
"Then l think you wouldn't have
miserable wife any longer Then you /,
would no longer want to sell or rent the :
farm, but would be showing the mother :
Of your children how much you respect :
ID her for her life of devotion. Then ;
she would know she was a partner in :
that $50, 600. Then, if you made your :
will all right, and she had a good rest. :
think she would some time be an eli I
yible widow = :
"Think SO, professor?'
II know it. Woman is plant that ,
wants Sunshine Won have haa, 1eavi7.o |