WIVES

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3802, 5 March 1881, Page 4

WIVES

Two men of wealth meeting not long since in New York, the conversation turned upon their wives. Instead of fittding. fault with women in general, and their wives in particular each one obeyed the wise man's . advice, and " gave • honour*' unto his wife."

" I tell you what it is," said one of the men "they may say what they please about the uselessness of modern woman, but my wife has done her share in securing our success in life. m "^Everybody knows that her family was aristocratic, and exclusive, and all that, and when I married her she had never done a day's work in her life; but when W- a°d Co. failed, and I had to commence at the foot of the hill again, she discharged the servants and chose but a heat Httle'cottflge, arid did her own housekeeping until I was better ofl'." "And my .wife,' said a second, "was an only daughter, caressed and petted to death; and every body said, " Well, if" he willmarry'a doll like that, he 11 make the greatest mistake of .his life," but when I came home, the first year of marriage, sick with the fever, she nursed me back to health, and I never knew her to murmur because I thought we eouldn t afford any better style or more laxunes.