The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-04-15
PUT HIMSELF IN HER PLACE.

earnestly to fellow masculine, not at
all for effect, 50 far as the feminine
eavesdropper could see, but out of the
fullness of his heart.
"Yes, I've been home for full two
weeks recovering from grip" the
eavesdropper heard him say, "and I've
been taught lesson in that time that
l am not likely soon to forget. Tell
you how it is. My wife hasn't had a
cook but two weeks since we came
home from the country last summer.
She hasn't had a servant of any sort
more than that. When I've come
home from the office in the evenings,
half the time l have found her with a
kimono of resting. Occasionally she
would say that she had planned that
we should 60 TO some of the hotels for
dinner, and tnat therefore she hadn't
prepared anything at home. Now. |
lived in hotels and boarding houses for
10 years before we we're married, and
I hate the name of either. I'd never
go into one if l could help it, so on
the occasions when she was in her kim.
ono 1 would reproach her for being
too lazy to dress to receive her 'lover,
and on the occasions when. she sug-
gested the hotel | would reproach her
for making me leave my happy home
just because she was too indolent to
get up a little dinner for us, when tha,
was all she had to do the whole long
day.
81 was fool to be sure, but just
then my attack of grip came to open
my eyes. Tell you what it is, old
man, that rhyme, about "A mans
work is from sun to sun, but wom-
ans work is never done is exactly
true. Id rather be one of the horses
that hauls coal cart than a woman
who does what is euphoniously known
as her own work-meaning, of course,
the work Of the whole family. l used
to lie in bed and watch her fly around
doing things until, to my feverish
brain, she seemed dozen women with
an endless chain of dust cloths in her
| hand. Sometimes the dust cloth was
broom, and sometimes it was a dust
pan, but it was always something to
work with.
GAS l got better l began to demand
that she sit with me more.
"I'd love to- she would say, earn
estly, but l can't, for must prepare
the luncheon, or set the table, or make
some rolls for the next mornings s
breakfast, or wash the cups and sau-
GERS, or make some desert, or salad
dressing, or arrange the beds. or pre-
pare the clothes for the laundry
"'Wait until l get we'll; I'll help
you,' l told her then.
"When the doctor pronounced me
better and | was able to be around, l
didn't forget, went down into the
kitchen and said: well, what shall !
do?' My wife asked me to wash the
dishes, while she busted and arranged
the dining room. 1t took me hours
and 20 minutes to wash and wipe and
put away those dishes. In the mean
time my wife had swept and busted
the dining room, had watered the fern
I threw that fern away on the second
day., had busted the drawing-room
and swept tue kitchen. Then she
wanted some salad for luncheon. s.
we prepared the vegetables and dress
ing for that, and put the rice on.
ut was IL o'clock when We went
upstairs, and l3O before we had finish
ed with the library and bedrooms.
Then we went down and finished pre-
pairing luncheon and ate it. We
washed the dishes, and l said to my
wife, at last you can rest bat she
said, Not at all, for l have little
mending | must do"
"She did the mending while | read
aloud to her, and when it was finished
she made me take nap while she
went out to the store and ordered the
provisions for the next days meals
She hal hardly got through with this
when it was time to begin preparing
dinner, and We finished washing the
last dish at s 80 that night, just as
some friends came to call.
eve are living at hotel now. We
moved just as soon as | was able to
60 out anil superintend the carrying
off of our furniture. | said to my
wife: Il know you married me for bet
ter or worse, but the prayer book
didn't contemplate such worse as
working yourself to death. I loath
hotels, but l am going to stay in one
until you secure cook who will stay
with Won foravar. That will nrohahlv