St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-08-07


IS to make that home g place Of peace
and quiet and rest. That's the reason
that ! devote all my energies to nay
family, and, It / do say It, IL there were
ai0re women like me, cur poor, dear
president wouldn't have to be 10 wOr-
ried about the country.
"Going7 Well, good-by. and remena-
bor that there's one woman left who
devotes all Of her time % making 3
happy home.
20, is that you. John2 Ard time e
was, I'm sure. It Is nearly seven
o'clock, and you know that | always
expect you home at $50 o'clock sharp.
Precious little encouragement / get
for shaving myself to death trying to
make you q comfortable home, when
you are lettering on your way and ca
rCusing with your boon companions.
What Is that you say? There was >
Jam in the street. and the car we're
bIookaded? o, of course.
Look at your feet, John Carson,
look at YOU feet! You didn't wipe
them on the floor mat, and you have
tracked in q lot Of dust. Haven't I
told you a million times never to dare
TO come in without cleaning your
shoes first, and for PHYS sake watch
what you are doing. You are pulling
that table cover all crooked and muss-
ing up the magazines that / had to
gtraighten out after yQr this morn
ing.
John Carlson, / believe you have
been drinking. Just a glass Of beer.
/ knew 1t; / knew 1t, / have always
said that you would end in a drunk
ards grave. Don't think to fool me by
saying it was only one glass. know
It was at least six. You can never
say, like SO many men do, that you
were driven to drink by your wife, for,
IL ever there was a wonan who did
her duty BY her family, and spent her
life trying to make them q happy
home, It is ], though precious little
credit or appreciation ! get for 1t.
What is that? You have gotten q
letter from your Aunt Jane, and she
Ii passing through the city, and wants
to stop off d day i two? / won't have
her. ! tell you. won't. Let her 90 to
q hotel.
st isn't that ! wouldn't make your
relatives and friends welcome. Not
at all. IT shall never be said of mo
that my husband was afraid to ask
anyone to- his house. But they are
such impossible people. Your Aunt
Jane hasn't got my ideas Of house
keeping at all. She isn't to be men
toned IN the same day with Sister
Maria, who is coming tomorrow to
stay a month or two.
and, John, / want $50. / saw d
new hat down town to-day that was a
perfect dream. and II had been marked
down, and-what's that? You are hard.
up, and have already paid d lot OF
extra bills, besides giving me my al
lowance2 I might have known 1t.
You are always hard up when / ask
for money. / can't have things like
Mamie simpkins and Katie Idora. Any
old thing is good enough for me.
y A2b RGCaG0C SLGy al nQ4AO dnQ LIy
to make you a happy, comfortable
home. you think / ought to go about
dressed like a servant, but / won's. /
tell you, / won't. / am going to have
that hat, so there, now.
Il wish you'd sake of your coat and
hang some pictures, and put down
that new mating FOR me. What, you
are tired? Tired? And doing noth-
ing but sitting In an ONCE all day.
Man never appreciate their blessings,
and / JUST get so discouraged that
sometimes / think / win just give up
and let you sit where you Ill and
eat what you want, and smoke ali over
the place and drink beer, Il you
want to.
You wish to heaven j wouidg
There. now; there, now. Well, won't.
H's q wife's duty to take care OF her
husband, and make him q home, and
I'm going to do 1t. 1t shan't be said
OF me that / am one Of those horrid
new women, who belong to clubs and
don't manage their domestic afairs.
No, sir, I'm going to do my duty, and
make vnn q hanry hnyan whathax v1Nm