The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-04

'shs has brought up four -cAl10sen ons of them is at college. One ls taixfnR rsa1~ sic lessons. The other two are xealow1ne genteel occupations She is a< homs alone, grinding out . treaAmill life which will end only in first-clasa .8unerzl~--.'s
 Stop that, doctor. win gour'
 While you are sttll . .yunnR-loozinR man with just enough gray in your whis- kerB to make you interesting. No doubt you have been thinking of some young girl of IS who would jump at the chance to marry you and your property"
 "Confound 1t. doctor, won't stay here if you don't"
 "And your wife never goes anywhere. so you don't get her watch like your own. nor . new silk dress, nor a horse that she could drive. She never says anything 30 you have not got her a set of new teeth like your own. And her nose Is pushed up into her forehead and her face wrinkled. She never goes out She has to work in the house SO she gets no nice shoes like yours" This Is too much for anything. TiI-" 'No. you won't. You will just let her work right on to the end. and then you will marry some high-hyer, who will pull every hair out of your head. and servs you right, too.'
 Doctor. for mercy sake, stopi" When you know, and know. that fl your wife had a proper chance Of rest. and had clothes like other women. si,a would be one of the best-looling women of her age in the country"
 T declare believe it." And old as she is. if you were to get out the carriage next Sunday and tell you. she would actually blush with pleas ure."
 'Blest if don't do it." Then Monday. if you were to tel her you were going to hire girl and that shs must sit in the parlor and work on that new silk dress you are goang to buy her"
 Doctor. that's mer'
 "And then hand her . nice purse with money in 1t and tell her to 70 shop- ping"
 T win. as sure as I Iivs."
 And then, when the tear stars In her eye, the same old blush comes out that you thought 90 nice when you went court ing her, if you would lciss her,
 "Tt's all right. doctor: you've cpszaA
 .rhen. my friend. I shculd begin 0 think she had made eonnething nyl mar. rying what you call a Ytch mAn.~
 You're right. doctor. you're Tighk"
 Then think you wouldn't have mis- erabie wife any longer. Than yuu woui9 no longer want to sell or lse the farm. but would be showing the moshsr of yoNs children how much you respected her fcT her life of devotion. Then she would know she was . partner in that fortune. Then. if you made your win all right and sh6 had a good rest, kh1nk she would some time be an eligible widow"
 Think 90. doctorf"
 T know it. Woman is c plant GNs4 moods sunshine. You have been leaving your wife in the shade too much. She has lost her color. You have made her think she is an old woman. She haa given mp all hopes of admiration and love and is only waiting to die and get out of the way. Suppose you were treated ao?'
 What. mel I am all right"
 'Yes, know. Women pity you because you are tied to such a dejscted looking wife, Foolish old maids and ally girls whisper behind your hack what . nice looking man you are, and what a stick of wife you have. and you are just soft enough to wear tight boots. dress smart ly and go speculating how long it will be before your wife dies"
 Stop. now, doctor: there is Q limit to endurance. I am going"
 Tipping his hat back on his head and shaking the wrinkles out of his trousers. he put his hands in his pockets and saun- tered away.
 There" said l.. "is one man who has taken the only legal and God-given way of getting rid of miserable wife"