Year: 1859

lie pushed back his chair deliberately,
and thought aloud:


In the name of Heaven, what does
this mean?'


Mrs. Warren, whose countenance
during this scene had worn a sober as
pect, now smiled pleasantly and an
swered,


The victuals were all on the stove
at the usual time


les strange they were not cooked,
said Raymond.


Not at all, replied Mrs. Warren:
there was no wood to cook them
with


In an instant easy Warren then saw
what moral there was in his novel
dinner, and with keen appetite, he
went to work on the wood-pile. He
took his dinner and supper together
that day, and remembered that Mrs.
Warren said:


Now. Raymond. whenever You
leave me without wood, you must eat
victuals that have been cooked on a
cold stove


Many women would have stormed
and scolded, but Mrs. Warren knew
there was a better way to correct her
easy husbands carelessness, or shift
lessness, as the reader pleases.


One day there was no flour in the
house, and Raymond was about to go
with some neighbors to town meet
ing, when his wife hid his best coat
and reminded him of the empty flour
barrel. Another day his corn was to
be gathered, when neighbor desired
him to assist HIM with his horses and
wagon. 1t was neighbor who often
received favors, but seldom rendered
them; yet easy Warren could not refuse
him. But when he went to hitch his
horses before the wagon. he found that
one of the wheels were missing. OF
course, the neighbor was disappointed.
In the afternoon. when Raymond cx-
pressed a wish to draw his corn, his
wife told him where he could find the
lost wagon wheel.


Thus was easy Warren's household
managed until he began to realize
practically what the error of his life
had been. People said, Warren 5
farm looks much better than it did
some years ago Mrs. Warren never
interfered with Raymond's business
except when he neglected it, and then
she nev9r found fault or scolded. but
took occasion to show his neglect to
him in manner which impressed him
with his injustice to his own interests.


Ravmond's cattle were we'll cared
for, and were in good order. When
his fences were down, if he did not re-
place them. his swife employed a neigh
Dor to make the necessary repairs
His wife took the papers, and read
she knew the state of the market, and
to oblige her. Raymond had his grain
in market when the price was highest.
Some people said:


Easy Warren is hen-pecked hus-
band


But he knew better, and he often
boasted that his wife was more of a
business man than he was


They had lived together peacibly
some years, when one day Raymond
was in good humor, thinking over
his prosperous condition. and he told
his wife:


I'm woman's-rights man of the
true grit. They may say You wear
the breeches if the please, Pm satisfied
to have you do the thinking for oul
firm. And now | see what fool
have been. l must make up for my
early shiftlessness.'


He did make up for his early shift
lessness; and under his iudicious wife,
training. he became Industrious in
stead OF Easy Warren.


Mrs. Warren had the correct idea o
woman's rights and woman's wrongs
We commend her management t,
those who have easy husbands Es
pccially do we commend it 10 thos,
unfortunate women who have earne,
for themselves the opprobrious title o
'scolds.'