Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — A Patient Wife; [ARTICLE]

A Patient Wife;

“I have heard,” said the kind-hearted Austin female philanthropist to the woman who lived in a dilapidated shanty in the suburbs, whose head wastied up, and who had one arm in a sling, “I have heard that your husband beats you, and I thought I would consult you to see if we could not restrain him.” “You are mistaken, madam; my husband never beats me. We have' lived together fifteen years, and he has never beaten me yet,” and the woman adjusted her arm in the sling. “I am so glad to hear that I am mistaken,” replied the female philanthropist. “No,” continued the woman, sadly, putting the bandage over the eye, “he has never struck me a blow yet. He has kicked me in a dozen different places forty different times: he has taken me by my two ears and bumped my head on the floor, or on the corner of the mantelpiece; he has poured hot water down my back, pulled out my hair by the handful, and he has stuck pins in me a time or so; he feeds his dog in my new Sunday bonnet, but he has never yet beat me, and until he does I don’t th nk I ought to complain.” The visitor then withdrew without saying another word. —Texas Siftings.