SOME MEN'S WIVES.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3108, 3 February 1879, Page 1

SOME MEN'S WIVES.

"I tell you what it is," said one Of *• small coterie of wealthy men, who had met in the office of one of their number, "they may say what they please atout the uselessness of modern women, but my wife has done her share in securing our success in life. Everybody knows that her family was. aristocratic and exclusive and all that, and when I married her she had neverilone a day's work in her life; but wheniW. arid Co. failed, and I had to commence at the foot of the hill again, she discharged the servants, chose a neat little cottage and did her own housekeeping until I was better oft 'again.'" : L'"'i;" ' . ' "'''"'" '' ■ " .'■■■.'' ; "And my wife," said a second, "was an only daughter, caressed and petted to death; and everybody said, ' Well, if ho will marry a doll like that he'll make the greatest mistake of his life;' but when I came home the first-year of our marriage sick with the fever, she nursed me back to health, and I never new her t'o^murmur because I thought we couldn't afford any better style or more luxuries. ;- " Well, gentlemen," chimed in a third, " I married a smart, healthy, pretty girl, but shei|pas a regular blue-stocking. She adored Tennyson, doted on Byron, read Emerson, and named the first baby Ralph Waldo* and tie second Maud; but I tell you what 'tis," and the speaker's eves grew suspiciously moist, "When we laid little Maud in her last bed at Auburn, my poor wife had no remembrance of m gleet or stinted motherly care, and the little dresses that still lie in the locked drawer were all made by her own hands."— Journal of Commerce.