A WOMAN'S IDEA OF BUSINESS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 974, 28 May 1872, Page 4

A WOMAN'S IDEA OF BUSINESS.

A Chicago woman writes to the <( Tribune " of that city, propounding a question of solemn import, and also suggesting the existence of certain habits on tho part of the husbands of that ambitious city, which is probably not altogether imaginary. She asks : '" What is that fearful maelstrom called business, which swallows up tho purest and best of our married men, after dark ? Where it-is located, and what, oh, what do they do there ? Is it some interna] chowder that witches stir? They come thence with mysteiious particles of boiled lobster sticking to their silken beards; the dust of Kenosha crackers on their lips. Odours strange and undefinablo cling about them; they walk in tortuous ways ; their speech is thick ; thoy t xaggerate. Is this business chimera of übiquitous presence to bo tolerated, when it invades our homes and thrusts midnight vigils upon us? We know this is a legitimate calling ; for when our husbands leave us after tea to go down town, they look weary and dejected, and when they return near morning tbey arc livelier than crickets. But how we yearn to know where tho partners of our bosoms are, that we might share the dangers of their business! It is uot at their offices, for these are always dark. Doubtless some dreary, subterranean retreat, piled with ledgers and hard-cushioned chairs, receives those self-sacrificing spirits, and all for us—for us '".