AN EDITORS WIFE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4259, 19 January 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN EDITORS WIFE

7ho o:ri v.d:o li;a rrir:> op rddor ahonhl h> i ft)i;! jo fialichan. and., id-.;- Mm J ; d> Ml {he hreycrlay ii.nrl i;yi' ruadoM in “Ifnihiny a. oil lo flip uaim; at her )lOM;n> jndd. ’ aha mud, l/Oh );Kr; a},.'a. ;r: nr;'.a rrquiro no r motion.,, c.r ji-.Vt- a M.crmy ao.jl ; tor thofi; do.■a;rni mi'' a.U an Moos of a, (ho anno it ly nn-j-i-'-m i/npiod hu .hand. bhr miMt rod bn ■,m:u mi' bar aocom p J :;>}i me:.' i.'or her imabaud v;i!l think noMimg o» '.omni; (o sleep oriuK -nr moot ma.-den a i.liorls at .Mu«.r t iioidn. rdm v;i!i >M-au»’i'liy a<- < fi.dom iinr.inll. ho rog}-,rd hoi* minus in Mm hoobjlnr iighl Ot a, SO'llhli.y sop-onp,-.. ;i a')\>- tor her rdMorial marivr jos} rnl.mm<.i I i imr from Mm rack ol olmo. work--Mm ''iiidi.iy JikiuM'ufint of politiV/s. ylm 1 f ll o■ md rebel ;f, like liie husband in “ imi/taly.dh’n hmmmn bo fail “lo r-I>nak a Magic whole soaintme*- in three f'nnks,” and sho rmisit oxjiact but few rn-k-'a rnmiii :•> and reiaxations. n. editor ‘!o--s noh as a rule, bring his wile homo caMcing parcels from f'lillerhy or boupiuMs from Co\ent hlarden. flis wife must endure his absem c for at least i hirfe'm hoMr°. o'h. of ihe twenty-four, and rnasi isavah' the fjM't that: Ids amah, !iis wakiag ami sleeping hours, are all extniordinary am) i rregu !a r. When he comes ban I; I o dini-cT an hour late owing to the stray mil of some Jmlafed limaMc at the office, she huh! buir. iniiuurmuring. complaints of the overcooked dinner. She must nsign fie!*:■>•'■ 11* to tlie sad fact that, her husband has barely timo lo notice her or her toilettes; she may even u< ar I Ik? fame dross for six months, and if there happened to be a. strike on, or a colonial war, or even a new .Hudgot, it will matter little, for lbs eyes are fixed, so to speak, on bovriohoola ( 11.M.1 all through three courses and a dessert. Jake h'd-ollopc’s Imro of “The Tluto Mb-rlfs, “flis heart is in his odiec; hi-: licaM: is always thcr*?. , ' > am! (»ir> wile only gels Die reversion of his mind. M.js v.dn-fe attention is never ymns, tor even wln'ii yon are 'doing '-our best to entertain him in your poor way, ins brow will be c,o'Tiipi I ',‘d by an impending libel ease. cm* a new iiiudyp'k or twenty million things. Tl«ore < c k however, one exception lo {hr- rale- tf tie comes in at half-part three in Iho morning, tilled with won and the prospect of a bhiropean war, his wile must he ready In soothe and sympathise. “My d(•:u^ ,, an editor’s wife- of some thirty yerrs' experieime saitl to me, “ r l'homas has told me ail T know of politics when he fame homo in. the early dawn and Mm sparrows were* lwiUering,‘ i Poor woman; vVMmt dismal associations those sparrows must always have had Cor her! The editorial husband Jfi, as a. rule, less communicative by clay; for if his wife then venture a political question, lie w ill probably crush her by remarking. “Why don't you ever read your paper? it comes every morning.* The girl destined to be the wife of an editor should not be afraid of burglars, for it win b-c her sad fate- to keep the front door unbolted till her spouse lots himself gently in at unearthly hours with Iks laichdvcy. If socially inclined, she must early make up her mind to go everywhere alone—or else lo stay ah home. T she sud her husband do, by any strange cham-e '■•r ovM to dinner, she never sce« Kim alter 1 hey once sit down, for ho Ko r s on to the oflicc. and. «ho must return alore-uvilh the latch-key, eigb pence tied UJ) in (Inmnior ol l>cv lifnulkf'rcl'i'T, nml in.-iyho n kickin': Iniisnm liornc :uul n lipi'y driver - lo hor umcly ebode. 11, may be nnirl, in some exle-.nolion of Ibe edil'.i'V. many priovsinecs. 'bat. m for efi be. is eoncernod, jic occiijnes, lo ptjee.k. a- throne Tar above bis fpUotv-inen. 'l'lie Rirl ivho marries an editor mu;il. cither lie- rcitnu-kaWy ihick-skinned, or dae be firmly resolved lo live her oyu life and have onlr her own friends. She ninsl, resolve sternly lo iunnre the cni'dii„? responsibilities of office, which efTrr. a.," far as nh? is com-crncd; no comneusafinns. Sbo musk be a world uido liorsnlf. cirable of endnyincr itmeh solir.udc—even enioyinK her life in. a kind of lonely ami miebante.fl palace, lo which her luystcnous and fain- prince only returns with a, lalcukey in the, dark,— “Woman ak Horne.