He Heard the Truth.

Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 53

He Heard the Truth.

S.EE Could Have Gone on foe Tuhbe Solid Hours, but she Stopped After an Hour and a-haef. " I- have a letter from mother, and" she is ccmiog 10-aaorrow to make us along, visit," said Mrs Shacp to her husband as she handed him a cup of tea across the table. Sharp mad a no rpply, and at the end of a.minuts or two hits wife said : "Well?" ♦•■WelJ, what?." " Why don't you say something ? " " Say something about what ? " '•■About mother coming." " I haven't anything to say." "No, yon haven't! Ob, no! Of course not ! But I saw yoar jaw drop and thai sullen look come into your face the miaute I spoke, and if you haven't anything to say,. George Shtrp r I have. I've stood ib long enough. Yoar folks can fairly swarm here and it's all right, but if my. folks come it's another matter, and I've heard all I want to. hear of your fl'ngs at mothers-in-law. liryour heart and soul were not as callonaed as' a rubber boot bee); you'd get down on your knees every day of your life and thank my mother for what she's dove for you. I'd just like to s&k you where we stayed the first two years after we were married. Where was ifc ? Ah, ha ! You don't dare answer. Where, indeed, bufc at my rnofcher't), because you, in 10 years, badu't saved up enough to go to housekeeping, and mother had to take us in, and you didn't even pay board. •Yes,, and one little Henry was born there at mother's, and she nursed me herself because you didn't have money to pay a nurse, and she even paid the doctor out of her own purse, and when we did set up housekeeping she aent us two waggonlo&ds of things out of her own house, and you are sleeping now under blankets the gave us and eating out of dishe3 thab came from her china closet, and if we era sick or in trouhle of any kind it is mother who must come and help us out 1 And ifc wss she who bought you the very overcoat you are wearing bc-day, and she more than half dresses the children, and it we Rre< short on rent day she lends us the money, and never gets it back again, nor ever asks for ?d ! And 1 ehe- laid in our winter coal for us last ; ear, when the children all had the scarlet »t:ve»' a«d we had so many extra expenses, aad. WiOu you cs-me uown with that awful attack of |.-vi«-amonia, who was is but mother that pat up ■s^.th you 15 eights, and you ware worse, than a b.hy to take care of ! I could go on for three M-.-idi hours telling you thing* mother has done fc=/ ua, and yet you never lose an opportunity of ppyiug something, hateful about mother3-in-law ! I'v'u such fellows as yoa who owe their mothers-in-law everything who go on. at the greatest and meanest rate about them, and who ought to have a few solid facts flung at them once in a while, and' maybe ib would teach them to keep their tongues still. I gueas you've heard the truth for once in your life, if you never hear it again, George Sharp ! li'a my honest opinion that there are far more nnworfky sons-in-law in the world than mothers-in-law, and the con-in.-law who ia sitting at this table gritting his teeth and wishing he dared throw a tea. cup at his wife for telling him the truth is one of them ! "—New York World.