The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-04-17
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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
Scotch granite tombstone when she dies. "
Professor, if you was younger man, I
would lick you quicker'n spring lamb can
jump thristle"
'What for? | am stating this case fairly,
am | not? 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 a peddler."
''Shut up, will you?'
''SShe has raised four children. One Of
them is at college. One is taking music
lessons in Boston. The other two are
teaching school. She is at home alone, 90
ing around in a tread-mill life which will
end in rosewood coffin and first class
country funeral"
stop that, professor, will you?'
while you ale 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 thirty cows and twenty acres
of hops"
Professor, 1 won't stay here il you don't
let up on that
"And your wife does not look we'll 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 a new silk dress, nor a pony that
she could drive, nor a basket phaeton that
she could climb into without ladder.
She never says anything, so you have not
got her set of teeth like your own, gold
and rubber, and her nose is pushed up into
her forehead and her face wrinkled. She
never goes out. She has to work in the
kitchen, so she gets no nice shoes like
yours"
"Darn my skin if DON'T
mo you won't. You will just let her
work right along, and then you will marry
some high flyer who will pull every hair
out Of your head, and serve you right,
too"
professor, for mercy sake stop
"When you know, and know, that if
your wife had chance to rest and had nice
clothes like other women she would be one
OF the best looking women of her age in
town.
81 swan | believe il.
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 20 to meeting with you
she would actually blush with pleasure"
''Darned if 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 the new
nickle plated coal stove and work on that
new silk dress you are going to buy her.
Professor, that's me-"
"And then hand her nice wallet with
claps 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 money"
81 will, as sure as you live."
"And then, VIII en- the tear starts in her
eye, and the same old blush comes out that
you thought was so nice when you went on
that teetcr 10 Albany, if you would kiss
her.
cts all right, professor
Then my friend, | should begin to
think she had made something by marry
ing a rich man."
''YOu re right, old man"
''Then | think you wouldn't have a
miserable wife any longer. Then you
would no longer want to self or rent the
farm, but would be showing the mother of
your children how much you respected her