SOME MEN'S WIVES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 628, 17 February 1879, Page 2

SOME MEN'S WIVES.

" I tell you what it is, " said one of a small coterie of wealthy men, who had met m the office of one of their number, '• they may say what they please about the uselessness of modern women, but my wife has done a share m securing our success m life. Everybody knows that her family was aristocratic and exclusive and all that, and when I married her she had never done a day's work m her life ; but when W. and Co. failed, and I had to commence at the foot of the ladder, she discharged the servants, chose a neat little cottage and did her own housekeeping until I was better off again." " And my wife," said a second, " was an only daughter caressed and petted to death ; and everybody said, * Well, if he will marry a doll like that he'll make the greatest mistake of his life ; but when I came home the first year of our marriage sick with the fever, she nursed me back to health, and I never knew her to murmur because I thought we could'nt afford any better style or more luxuries. " Well, gentlemen," chimed m a third, " I married a smart, healthy, pretty girl, but she was a regular a bluestocking. She adored Tennyson, doted on Byron, read Emerson, and named the first baby Ralph Waldo, and the second Maud ; but I tell you what 'tis," and the speaker's eyes grew suspiciously moist, " When we laid little Maud m her last bed at Auburn, my poor wife had no rememberance of neglect or stinted motherly care, and the little dresses /that still ilie m the locked drawer "were all made by hor own hands."