Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — The Worst Husband. [ARTICLE]

The Worst Husband.

But after all the worst husband in the world is not the man who gets mad. The most unhappy woman I ever knew was the wife of a man who never got so far in his wrath as to say “d it,” and who was never known to slam a door. The woist. thing about him was his meekness. He didn’t drink; he didn’t gamble, and he didn’t run after other women, but he snooped, and he sneaked and he hen-hussied, and if Providence ever spared anything more disagreeable to have around than a hen-hussy man, I never ran across it. This fellow was always on hand to find out just how many bars of soap were used in. the family washing and how much sugar was put in rhubarb sauce. He counted out the grains of coffee for each serving and favored driedapple pies. 1 was at his home once on the Fburth of July, when he gave his children ten cents apiece for fireworks and charged it up on their good behavior account. If I had been obliged to live in the same home with that man I should have accidentally killed him while cleaning my gun. And yet he never raised his voice nor so much as breathed hard in the whole course of his life.—Chicago Herald.