West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-11-24
Mrs. RASHER'S }
curtain LECTURES
Mrs. Rasher stu Out or Sorts About
Having Had 20 Move.
Rasher Cannot Stand TO be Hen.Pecked
ANY LOnger-Commits Suicide.

""d1 , lnat IA man might as
well have a cast iron wife," am
glad yoG are coming to a realizing
sense of it. l have long been
aware that we were not congenial
spirits, Mr.. Rasher; and every day
confirms me more in my belief.
1T 1t were not for our daughter, /
should hardly have been able TO
conceal my unhappiness from the
eyes of a prying world. No, no,
there's nothing congenlal between
ne. It's not because Pm insensible
to impressions, that l can't abide
your sentiments. It's the way you
have of expressing 'em. II YOU'D
approach me as you ought to, you
wouldn't find me indulgerable, but
instead Of that, it's always in some
way to shock my taste. guess if
you'd try boquets or hot house
flowers, sets of jewelry, a new car
pet, or some Of those delicate ways
such as makes some men l know so
charming, you wouldn't have rea-
son to find fault with your recep.
ton. but when you get twinge of
the romantic, the first thing you do
Is TO hunt up some outlandlsh old
thing or another, that l hate the
sight Of and present it to me as
hallowed by old associations. IL
there's anything hate it is old as
sociations ! And you arc as fun of
them as an egg is full Of meat. 1
presume the next present l receive
from you will be paper of needles
and spool of thread, to remind me
OF the days when we first met-you
may even carry the matter so far as
to beg me to sit down and spend my
evenings making shirts, for the sake
of reminding you of old times.
Good land I'll never forgot tina,
globe of goIdfshes you went and
put in the conservatory last SUM-
mer, to remind me of the fshmon.
gerry on A-Street, { broke the
glass on purpose, the very first day,
though you thought it was an ac-
cident. AfteL that, l shouldn't
have been surprised at anything,
not 1T you'd had little gold pig
with diamond eyes to hold matches
on the front parlor mantle shelf.
No. Timothy, it is plaineaough we
ought never to have been tied to-
gether; and | never realized it mora.
than l do this day-moving back
into this old lace. 1t is ,Ae right
spot for you; but i feel that me and
the girls will waste our sweetness on
the desert air, as Flummery says.
am wretched, perfectly wretched /!
l have not the heart TO say a word
or 10 stir hand. If the roof
should fall in l wouldn't rise ont of
this chair. And you, instead of
symPathizing, go about whistling
and singing, as if you hadn't been
the means Of n oil
don't care. Felicia, what you
do with IT, d. what you are a mind
with anything and everything. Your
pa and you can manage as you like.
For my part, am going upstairs to
try and comfort poor Cerintha; me
and her are the the only ones who
have any feeling. "Think it is
your duty to try and cheer up your
papa" Indeed, poor papa he's
greatly to be pitied, isn't he? Well,
cheer him up. if it's to your taste
and attend to the draymen, and see
70 the servants; ! am going to shut
myself up ,ill dinners ready. I've
stood as much as I'm able for one
day. Don't mind your mother, or
consult her feelings, Felicia; cheer
~ your father that's right For
my part, | depise a man who CAM
provide properly for his farxf
| IS He's no business with a
wife and children. It's mans
business to keep his family we'll.
If lie won't do il he ought 70 be de
spised. The only good trait your
father ever had was ma king money;
and If he's got over that. he's lost
my respect and everybody else's.
"Don't scold todayp Scoldr don't
be impairment Felicia. I shall
speak my mind whenever feel
compelled. If ! wasn't too tired
] should have something to say now
but I ann too completely dragged
out to talk. hope you'll have a de.
cent spot for me to sit down ~ when
] come back. But don't let it be
on that horrible old sofa-ITI give
that up TO you and your pa. CA
aOrch hafSy.) ] wish your father
would come home, girls. I feel
uneasy about him It's two days.
now, since he been near the house.
/ don't doubt he's of on spree;
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