The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-06-27
AGGRAyATIONS OF MARRIED LIFE.
Tyranny-Petty Domestic Kind Mans
Most Irritating Quality.


Most Irritating Quality.
What is the most aggravating thing
in married life?
Is tyranny
The woman who is married to a man
who has elected himself The Keeper of
the Pocket-book and Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Household is just dead
sure that any fault, big or little, in
husband, is easier to stand than bossi-
ness.
"If you want the littlest, measliest,
meanest, most irritating quality in a
man, you'll find that it is petty domes
tic tyranny" she says.
"There's no other husband on earth
so aggravating and so hard to endure
as the man with little two by-four
sOul who is always shopping around IN
the kitchen measuring the thickness of
the potato parings, weighing the dust
from the flour bin and pokiug his nose
into everything that happens in the
house, and who married for no other
reason than just to get somebody he can
lord it over in high and mighty way,
aud who can't give notice and quit, as
servant or clerk would.
81 know, for l We been slave wife for
twenty years, and whenever l think of
all that l have endured without throw
ing the coffee pot even once at my hus,
bands head, I know that / ought to
have one of the Carnegie hero medals.
I'm not saying that my husband
isn't good man. He is. He is an ex-
emplary citizen, he pays his debts, he
heads subscription lists, he passes the
plate in church, he provides for his
family, and when he dies the papers
will print gorgeous obituaries. The
preacher will draw tears from the eyei
of the listeners by telling what de-
voted husband and father he was, anC
the children and will go home from
the funeral and take the first fret
breaths we have ever drawn in our lives
"rhat sounds heartless, but in tint
even door mat will rise up and throw
you down.
''Now I'm not new woman, nor al
advanced woman, and | don't cherisl
any unholy longings after latchkey
or career, or any life outside of m,
own home, but / am white and 81, an(
l would just like to be free. Once
anyway, I'd like to be able to thinl
my own thoughts, buy my own clothes
eat what | like, and, just once, exercis
few of the privileges of an adul
citizen.
"But / never have. I've got tyran
on the hearth that treats me as if l was
child or fool, or both. He does m,
thinking for me. He settles my want
and tells me what | am to do, and | d
it, because that's the price of peace.
''Do 1 want a new dress? / mus
not only ask for the money, but | mus
go into elaborate details about why
need fresh gown, what / am going t
buy and why I can't wear Rain
Daisy to full dress ball. Thank heay
en- my husband is too busy to go shor
ping with me but every article that
purchased has to pass under his eagl
eye while / listen to comments on th
way | have been taken in and cheated
''And that's the way it goes abor
every living thing under the sun, fC
there no such thorough artist as th
tyrannical man. Nothing is too big {
= too little to escape his notice and II
bossed up one side and down the 9th,
until don't know whether my soul
my own or not. Of course I'm fond
my husband about as fond as the sla'
is of the slave driver-but if there
anything more aggravating than to |
tyrannized over I'd Just like to he
what it is. That's all"
Is it so, gentlemeni