Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — Wife and Partner. [ARTICLE]

Wife and Partner.

I think men and women will be more just to each other when their enterprise is mutual. Germans, the next nation in force to the Anglo-Saxons, make the best husbands, because they marry with sagacity, and, if the wife has no dower, she gives labor in place of it. My butcher’s wife keeps his books and handles all the actual shop money. He markets ami cuts all the meat up, and the same horse that serves the customers o» week days takes them both out to the park or country on Sundays. Four pairs of hands and two heads are at work in that family. The woman is not a peacock, making Broadway interesting for the hotel loungers. No wonder they have plenty of children which never become a burden to the parents. It seems to me there is a new baby every time I buy a roast, either just come or nearly in sight, still that perennial woman comes out and runs the cash book, and the very sausages in the window seem to wag the tail of the invisible dog within them to welcome her to the shop. —New York Correspondence. "William HI. brought tan into England in 1689 for the purpose of raising orange tree 3.