ASSERTING HIMSELF FOR A MINUTE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 16 June 1884, Page 3

ASSERTING HIMSELF FOR A MINUTE.

Tlio tliin man without tho shirt" collar was evitlenHy perturbed in spirit. He elevated his chin and scratched it with a match, then worked the match for a time in his ear and stared hard at the man with the coldtea scheme. '" Divorce is a queer subject," at last lie said reflectively. . "So it is," said the cold-tea man., "Got one, or'want one V " I'm not speaking for myself," replied the other, with native dignity mingled with tobacco juice. "Oh 1 Sort of feeling for your fellow beings f Without deigning a reply the collarless man continued: "A queer subject; a queer subject, sir, If people can't live happily together what do they marry fori" " I chip," said the cold tea man. • "I'll tell you what causes most of this divorce business. I'ts the bossy niture of women, There's lots of women in the world whose whole duty ill life appears to exist in nagging their . husbands, they seem to think that a marriage license is a permit to pester the life out of a man, They don't wait for causes for complaint, but get up imaginative ones and enjoy themselves with them. They spem to know they

Lave a man foul. If lie has children of course he does not want lo leave tliem, ' and if not t-jiej know lie cannot help himself, for if he flees their torture, he hp to give up friends, position, and all else besides, nnd go and bury himself 111 some strange community. You'd naturally think that a woman, having got a man in tin's awful position of helplessness, she'd have some mercy for hini. But if she belongs to the complaining kind she won't. Not a bit of it, She'll jump on the poor fellow with both feet and grind her licels into him. Tlieie's only one cure." " As how 1" asked the cold tea man, deeply interested. ' : "A- man should bo a man and assert himself," replied tho thin man with emphaßis. "Nature has created him the superior woman, and he should not •ftllow her to assume the! government over him. Sho is his inferior nnd is dependent on him, and, if nocessary for happiness, lie should mako her.understand' this. How men can be so chiokcn-hearted as to allow women to crush their independence I do not for the life of me, understand. At this moment the front door was opened, nnd from behind a barricade of boxes came a" shrill feminine voice, asking," Is'my ■ Jarfly hero 1 I want him.this mink' Javfly, you good-for-nothing—" 1 .' " Great Cresnr I I came near forgetting a very 'portant .'gagement," hastily exclaimed tho thin man, as he made a bolt out of tho rear door,— Cbic-igo Tribune.