The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-03-30
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PreiudiCed Views Of a Hen
pecked Husband.


country | stopped at Il farmhouse. J
could see plainly that the farmers |
wife was not person to lie lived with |
on amiable terms. After she had gone |
to bed the farmer and l sat together |
chatting. l asked him if lie liked TO |
read.
'Waal. stranger" he said, II reckon |
l do like to read ef kin cit the books
For long time | had nothin' but |
Shakespeare and the Bible. But last |
winter | got Il historical book about |
them kings and queens of England. |
was interested in one of em, king
called Henry VIII That king was
the only man l ever read or heered
about that got ahead of six wimmin,
all his wives. and didn't hey to kill
morcn two of 'em neither"
"He was monster" | protested.
"Waal now. stranger. | hain't so
sartin about that, | don't know that
he was quite eXcuSable in the matter
of his first wife. the Spanish woman;
but, ye see, man TO git ahead of six
wimmin has got to be mighty sharp.
If remember right Henry he'd mar
ried his brothers widder which is con-
trary to Scripture. and after livin' with
her twenty years his conscience trou-
bled him. 1t may be thct he hadn't
ortcr married her in the first place,
but it makes a good deal of difference
whether woman's young and amia-
Bile or old and Spiteful. No, think,
under the circumstances, Henry was
eXcuSable for gitten a tender con-
science at the right time"
you surely don't approve of his be-
heading Anne Boleyn, his second
wife,"
WAL, now, l hain't so sartin about
that neither. Henry's conscience was
very tender one and, as | said afOre,
always pricked him at a convenient
time. When his first wife died he
wanted to show her every mark Of re-
spec ana ordered his court to put on
black. Anne BoIeyn showed what kind
of q woman she was when she order
ed her wimmin to Wear yaler. That
made Henry mad, 1t was Il convenient
time to be mad. He was gittin' ready
for his next wife"
His third wife," l remarked, Jane
Seymour, was, l believe, the only one
of the six who died q natural death
while married to him. The next, Anne
of Cleves, he divorced without be-
heading her"
THE CleveS woman was the only
sensible one o the lot, the only one
that come any ways near gittin' even
with the king. When he said You git"
she was very much pleased to go"
what do you think of the case Of
Katherine Howard?'
"Lemme see What did she do?
There's so many of 'em fOrgit"
"As a mere child she had been led
into several indscretions, including Il
sort of marriage with a low bred fel-
low who afterward turned pirate. AS
soon as she married the king all those
who had led her astray'-
81 remember now. They all turned
office, seekers, and the queen had to
give 'em situations or they'd blow on
her. WaaI, now, don't see how Hen
ry could "a done any different. He
wouldn't believe nothin' agin her till
the hull thing was out. Katherine
was one o. them middlG-o' -the-rOad
wimmin She might "a lived eff she'd
only given in. She wouldn't own up
to her first marriage. The king
couldn't git a 'nullment of his mar
riage on any other ground, so he haC
to chop her head off. She done that
Henry didn't Y see, stranger, there's
a popularity about Wimmin that it re
quircs jist such a man as Henry tC
handle They never give in kath
crime preferred to love her head, anC
in doin' so she only showed a woman's
natur
"There's another point in Henry's IA
vor lie had two gals to leave ,th
crown to and only one boy, an he
weakling Henry had material insigh
into wimmn'S onfitneSS to run things
and having a tender conscience, /
grieved him to think o Ieavin his pee
pie to su&er under EN-. And it turne,
out he was right His first darter wa
Bloody Mary, whose name speaks TO
her. Then comes Elizabeth, who Gu
off the heads of the men she loved.
NO, stranger; in summin up tn
married life O Henry VIII. | conside
that he was a remarkable man and
very conscientious one. He done a
he could to keep England from beil
pestered with wimmin rulers, and fC
that alone he orter be honored by hi
grateful countrymen. Six Of 'em. Jis
think of it. stlanger-siX of em. Wha
would YOU and do with such lo
restricted by law as we air? Henr
VIII. was a great and good man.
The farmers arguments set me
thinking OF late years we have ha
lives of Aaron Burr. setting forth hi
virtues. and of Benedict Arnold, SHOW
ing how bad treatment and ineXorab
fate compelled him to betray his coul
try. ] confess the farmers logic il
pressed me as favorably as many liv'
| have read of the worlds prominel
sinners.
The farmer having no more OF XII
Henry's queens to discuss except Il
last. who survived her husband, an
as the farmer expressed it, 'didI
count" he showed me to my room.
overheard a curtain lecture he receive
from his wife which somewhat dimi
ished my respect for her opinion
women in general and the unbias'
character of his excuses for the gre
British royal Bluebeard.
Didn't Miss Them.