Mrs N. Finds no Fault.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 62

Mrs N. Finds no Fault.

" You are entirely and utterly mistaken, Mr Naggly," remarked that gentleman's wife when ho said that she was always finding fault with him. " You are mistaken. I am not finding fault when I simply say that you are so different from other wives' husbands and I wish that you were more like thorn. You know yourself that you are not a bit like Mr Smythe. He goes everywhere with his wife — even to afternoon teas and receptions, and I'd like to know when you ever went to anything of that sorfc with me. I'm not finding any fault, but when I see Mr Smythe here and there and everywhere with Mrs Smythe I can't help wishing that my husband thought enough of hie wife to wish to go to some place with her and pay her some of the attentions other men pay their wives.

"And when I see Mr Meek out shopping with Mrs Meek I think to myself, ' I'd like to bee my husband out shopping with me, pelecting my dre&bes and bonnets.' It's most awfully discouraging to try to dress for a husband liko you, and I can't help wi&hing that you were more like Mr Meek in some re.spects. And although I'm not a fault-finder, I often think of how different you are from Mr Worme. He stays at home and reads to his wife nearly every night of his life, and he never goes out without her. I'd just like you to tell me when you have ever read anything to me, and it seems to me that you are always hunting foi gome pretext to get away from home in tho evenings if I sit down and try to talk to you.

" And if you were like Mr Goode you would tell me more about your private affairs, so that I would know just how we stand from day to day. Mrs Goode keeps a regular set of books at home and makes Mr G-ooda- tell her all about his business, and sho goes to his office every week and compares his books with hers every Saturday, to be sure that he is keeping nothing back. I'd like you to tell me what I know about, your business, and although I've got a perfoct right to do it, I fancy 1 see jubt how you would act if I came to town and into your office and began looking over your bookV. Of course, Mr Gcode linn some confidence in his wife and nemo lespeet for her opinion, while my husbiuul always tries to make mo feel that I don't know anything-, and if I resent it he accuses me ot being a fault-C ider and informs rue that if I will attend to my affairs he will attend to his.

" I'm not a fault-finder, and " Bui. Mr ISTaggly had kicked over his chair, trodden on the cat, and fled wildly from tho house.