The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-22


and give you all chance to say that
ia bring up In the poorhouse. When
l took her to the circus and into all
the sideshows besides ana bought pea
nuts and lemonade and candy on top
Of that, It seemed to most Of you thai
I had gone crazy. but was simply In
love. Once when the widder had to go
away for a day went over and found
her tracks Mt the back door and sat
beside them for hours and hours. II
that don't settle the question Of wheth-
er a man can love the second time,
then I don't know.
Gentlemen, I was two long months
hesltating over asking the widder to
be mine. and vet the rest of You was
saying that she'd jump at the chance
Mcbbe you was right know thnt
when finally managed to get up the
courage hadn't hardly got my mouth
open before she says yes, and we was
married n month later.
"And now comes the real pint. I'd
been boss OF the house, same as all
you are boss of yours. Wasn't II
material for me to keep right on boss
ing? Had the thought of surrenderlng
the rcins of government occurred to
me? Is n man and husband to be
treated like child or slave? At the
first go off her bossing was novelty,
and rather liked 1t and encouraged It.
! was still In love. you see. After
about n month the novelty wore of,
and I began to assert myself took
the bossing business into my own
hands. What follered? Why. that
wife got rirht up on her hind legs and
made the air blue for forty rods
around. She got out ten words to my
one. When took her by the ear
to sit her down in chair and hush her
up. she lit into my hair and pulled II
ont by handfuls.
II went over and had a talk with
Joab Hammersmlth. who Is living
with his No. 3. thought Joab
conld show me the trick, but was
mistaken. He said he'd been crush.
cd strawberry for years and years and
expected to remain so for the remain
der OF his days. 1t has got so at his
house that when lightning rod man
comes along he's got to inquire Of
Mrs. Hammersmlth or be run of the
premises Then went and had talk
with the pastor of my church. He ad.
vlsed me that try moral suasi0n. ]
went home and tried 1t and found my
self In the back yard with the door
locked and freezing night.
"Who Bosses the Roost7"
Gentlemen. who bosses the roost?
Mrs. Spooncr.
"who handles tho cash? Mrs. Spoon
er.
"Who tells me when can go and
when shall come? Mrs. Spooner.
"Who gives me liberty to draw my
breath? Mrs. Spooner.
"I'm only telling you what you all
know and what Is the gossip Of the
town. She made up her mind when
she became No. that she'd be the
boss. and she's carried 1t out. That's
the way with all No. 2's. No. / knuc-
kles right down and let's you do the
bossing and thinks It's all right, but
No. 2 is no such chicken. She intend
ell 10 get the whip hand when she mar
ried you, and she's going to keep It OF
raise such a row that you'll wish you
was In your grave.
Understand, gentlemen, that I'm
saying nothing agin Mrs. Spooner.
She's finer'n silk. Oh, Lord, but such
pic.lcd peaches as she does put up!
And apple sass--it makes you grin
from your neck to your heels! Just
one Of the incest women In the county,
and hope that she'll outlive me by
twenty years, but have had to use
her for an illustration. She married
me to be boss, and she is boss, same
as all the other No. Is. haln't ex-
actly saying that the man who loses
No. shouldn't look for No. 2, but
I'm saying that II he does he ought
to know what's coming to him and
what he'll he sure to get I've At
agin It and fit and fit. but It's no 60.
Tonight she sends me down here
after gallon of lie and says l can
stay jest forty minutes. Them forty
Is so mighty nigh up that I've got to
get hump on me and run all the way
home. and even then Mrs. Epooner
may be standing there with club to
hit me when jump through the gate"
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