The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-03-09

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number of letters.
Among these Is one which | feel
must mention, as 1t has made me
pause and consider carefully whether
| should continue this series, or drop
the whole subject, and let the world
continue in the same haphazard way
that women have reduced It to. The
letter runs as follows:
Il wish when you wrote that article
about women that you (sic), some
one, had strangled you; you have
made my life burden to me Through
my LdsbanG, what with your har.
ness and your bran.mash. etc. and
your mutton chops, and SO on. There
are no words in the English language
bad enough that could throw at YOU:
please close your series at once. Ms
they won't @ good at all. and are only
making strife in once peaceful homes"
This is signed AN Angry Wife"
and | spare my readers the Up. s." II
would be easy to sheer at this blotted
and illiterate letter, but am not so
hard-hearted as some of my readers
may imagine, and | can see that this
badly written letter Is stained with
tears. There is even pathos for me
in the vulgarity of the postscript, and
| am deeply sorry II any words OF mine
nave led some foolish man to apply
them too near home for his own and
his wife's comfort. My mission is not
to make discord, but to preach peace.
want to show women where they
fail, so that they may mend their man.
ners, and, II they will only take heed.
and their husbands will only be a lit.
tie patient with them, though there
may be little storms, am sure the
sunshine will succeed.
With these few words, and in this
hope, continue, and take for nv
subject women's idea Of good serv.
ant. or at least their idea of a serv.
ant they ought to put up with. She
Is common to all homes, and | am
sure all my readers will recognize her
under the title Of Such highly re.
spectacle person!"
She is a very tidy person. She al.
ways carefully pats away anything
you want, and you see, by the way
your papers are turned over. that our
desk has been thoroughly busted
round the edges. And she is handy
withal. II the chair Is broken. YOU
Will not find 1t out at once. as she will
make 1t hold together-till you sit
Cown-by tying it with string, or dri.
wing tenpenny nail through the
back which Is so brittle and old"
that 1t splits. If she has any washing
to do. she makes no fuss about II.
She waits till you are out, and does Il
in the Nthroom, and when the waste
won't act and the plumber comes and
pulls up half the floor, and the force.
pipe smothers the ceiling with semi.
decayed soap and dirt, you can satisfy
yourself that the mischief was as
much due to the fluff and hair which
put in the bath as the fact
that the highly respectable person"
forgot that hot water will melt a bar
Of soap In time II allowed to stand.
But this Is only indoors. II a slate
IS blown of the house, the highly
respectable person" will Chamber IN
through the trap-door, and march
about without fear Of slipping with
her thick boots on the roof, and when
she comes down you will know ex.
ictly how many states are broken. II
you send her to the butchers, you
nay be sure she will pick the meat
'he thinks Is best for you, and If you
happen not to like It as much as usual,
you will at least know that she did
Ter best In your interests, by finding
hat she has saved you a quarter II |
'er mistress wants a certain kind of
'tuff, and sends her for 1t, she will