Year: 1873

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run Of liberty since We we're married.
| I hope she's having a good time, for
1 can now exercise my rights IS the
head Of the family. Can't do it
when she's at home; She'll not stand
it. She rules and makes everybody
about her toe the mark. But I've
got her now, and and am having
things my own way.


This morning / came home quite
early. Il wss PAN. 1 had been
to the club and got caught out in
the rain. For half an honr 1 could
not ind the key-hole, which must
have got mislaid. felt for it every
where, and even got down into the
yard and examined every brick, but
couldn't 6nd it. was in the act Of
calling out my neighbor, and asking
him who had carried of my front
door, when 1 happened to ind it and
and got into the house.


In the dark kicked over spit
toon, but luckily did not get any Of
the tobacco juice on my boots.
hung my overeoat and umbrella on
a prong of the chandelier, let them
drip on the parlor carpet, went up
stairs and turned in with my boots
on. l thought it wasn't worth while
to pull them of as I would have to
get up in eight or ten hours anyhow.
Hmy wife had been there she'd had
me looking an hour for the boot
jack, and l would have lost that
amount of rest which my system 80
much needed. Besides she'd have
made me give q full account Of my
SELF It's better to let others speak
Of ones virtues. I can now wear
shirt q week, and its nobody's busi-
ness. don't see how / ever got
along with that woman. The idea
Of having to put on a clean shirt and
black my boots and brush my
clothes every morning, is simply ri
diculo4s. 1t is a miracle to me how
/ ever did It. and attended to my other
affairs. InoW read the morning pa
per without being forced to see an
impatient woman standing with her
dress in one hand, looking very mis-
cradle, and finally telling me she IS
going down town and wants that pa
per. Anyone, to look at the house
now, would know there's no women
about, everything IS 50 quiet and
comfortable and handy. If I want
to do a little figuring don't have to
hunt up pencil, CT pen and ink but
/ Just sit down to one Of the tables
and do it with my fingers, and there
is no one to be eternally welding 8
busting brush around my head and
telling me to get out Of the way
until the house is cleaned up. These
are considerations that every mar
ried man should ponder over. But
when we do ponder and resolve
what good does it do? That's the
question which is now agitating the
American people. What good does
it do? Net bit. If these women
can't have everything just their own
Rsy they sWoon of into mysteries.
As S consequence we have to pay q
big doctors bill, and stay in the
house all day tanning them, and
promising in the the end that We
''may be happy yet before they
show any disposition to compromise
Our wives are petted too much. And
this reminds me that mine won't
yield to any other treatment. I IN
dertook to prescribe a more strin-
gent remedy for her one day, but it
threw her into q fit more like jam
jams than anything I knew of. She
broke every plate in the house over
my head, and then 1 had to kiss her
before she would promise not to do
it again. That's wnat makes me
say she is set in her ways.


There to are the piano and guitar,
which she kept going from morning
until midnight filing the whole
neighborhood with discordaHt
sounds which she called music.
Both are as mute as the bird cage
which was vacated last week by a
statagetic movement of the cat.


The 200 pots of flowers which she
left me to cultivate, don't think
will produce much of a crop. They're
nearly all ripe now, snd there's no
sign Of flower yet. l Watered them
twice since she left, but it did no
good. recon they miss her and
are pining away because she amt
here. In this respect they do not
resemble me to an alarming extent.


Our kitchen never looked better.
The stove an pipe have assumed q
beautiful red tint, and the pots
are bringing forth a fine crop OF
white looking vegetable mould, which
1 havn't learned the name Of, but
she'll know it when she comes. The
dishes don't look quite as bright
and clean as they might, but the flies
are back this year, and if / were to
wash them every two weeks they
would not present a respectable ap-
pearance.


Notice TO the Editor.-Please sup
press that article / sent you about
nv Spell of Single Blessedness. The
old woman has got back.