The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-26


MANAGING 4 HUSBAND.
"True, Major Flint is a wealthy
man and good looking, withal, but If
you marry him he will make you his
slave-take my word for it, Miss
Atherton.
do you think so?" said the lady
addressed, quietly looking up from
her embroidery.
Think sol Iknowit. You can
not have forgotten how his first wife
faded. So gentle and lovely, too, as
she was, yet the poor woman never
dared say her soul was her own
never If she had had different
husband she would probably have
been alive today
every likely, Mrs. May"
"And yet, knowing all this, you
are going to take her place 7"
Major Flint will find me very
different person from his late wife, /"
said Miss Atherton, composedly.
However, as I do not wish to an
ticipate sorrow, we will, if you please,
dismiss the subject"
This was not the first remonstrance
Miss Atherton had received on the
subject of her approaching marriage,
but she had made up her mind, it ap-
peared, and was now occupied in
making preparations for the wedding.
What had been said respecting
Major Flint and his first wife was un-
questionably true. He was a domes-
tic tyrant, and, holding the female
understanding in very slight esteem,
considered that the wife ought in all
respects to be subservient to the hus-
bands will.
His reason for marrying again was
principally from the fact that he could
find no housekeeper who would be
sufficiently subservient to his whims
and caprices. Having lost one after
another, he came to the conclusion
that he needed a wife, and soon re-
solved to tender his hand to Grace
Atherton, who had been a warm per-
sonal friend of his last wife. We
will not analyze her motives for ac-
cepting his proposal, tho probably a
regard for Major Flint's two helpless
little children, who resembled their
mother rather than their father, in
huenced her as much as any other
motive. However, that might be,
the marriage soon took place, and
after brief journey Miss Atherton
returned as Mrs. Major Flint, to take
her place as mistress Of the house.
hold.
Hitherto Major Flint had forbore
to show his hand. Now, however,
that their married life had fairly be-
gun, he thought it quite time to do so.
81 have given Mrs. Burns week. S
notice." he remarked at the break
fast table the morning after their re-
turn.
Mrs. Burns had been housekeeper
and maid-of-all-work, the entire du-
ties of the household devolving upon
her.
"And why have you given her a
weeks notice 7" asked the lady quiet
ly. Are you not satisfied with her7"
1T is not that, madam" said the
major, deliberately.
ANY difficulty about the wages {"
asked his wife, unconcernedly.
mo" said her husband, feeling
rather embarrassed. "The fact is,
Mrs. Flint, there is not very much
work to do in our small household,
at least no more than one pair of
hands can easily do. My first wife
always did her own work, and with
ease, although she was not very
strong woman"
Ibid she not die very young I"
asked wife No. 2, slipping her coffee
composedly.
"Why, yes," said the obtuse Mr..
Flint, a little disconnected. "You
know the young die as well as the
aged"
80 have heard" returned his
wife.
Major Flint was a good deal puz-
rled by the matter of fact manner of
his new wife. Her cool self-posses-
sion awed him in spite of himself. If
she had stormed he would have felt
better prepared to meet the emer-
gency.
ST shall allow my children to re-
main where they are, at my mothers
until you get accustomed to the house
a little. In the course of the week."
he added, "you will get an idea of
the extent of the work by observing
Mrs. Burns"
Rising from the table, he was about
to leave the room, when his footsteps
were arrested by the simple address
major Flint 70
"Welll" said he.
"It appears that you have been
making arrangements without con-
sulting me-"
Major Flint was astonished.
"You, madam Why should /
consult you about my arrangements" !"
Because may not approve them. "
MRS. Flint" said the major, "it
is your duty to acquiesce in whatever
plans I, as your husband, see fit to
FORM"
Indeed l. I have never taken that
view of the matter" said Mrs. Flint.
"Then the sooner you take it the
BETTER" was his reply.
''Do you expect me to perform all
the labor required in this establish
ment 7"
Exactly so, madam"
II believe you are considered a rich