Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — Horrible, Though True. [ARTICLE]

Horrible, Though True.

I have been thinking hew horrible it must be to see anybody one cares for, drunk; the honest eye dull and meaningless; the wise lips jabbering foolishness; the whole face and figure, instead of being what one likes to look at, takes pleasure to see in the same room, even—growing ugly, irrational, and disgusting—more like a beast than a man. Yet some women haw.' to bear it, have to, speak kindly to their husbands, hide their brutishness, and keep them from making worse fools of themselves than they can help.. I have seen it done, not merely by working men’s wives, but lady-wives in drawingrooms. I think, if I were married, and I saw my husband the least overcome by wine, not “drunk” may be, but just excited, silly, otherwise than his natural self, it would nearly drive me wild. Less on my account than his. To see him sink—not for a great crimtf, but a contemptible, cowardly bit of sensualism—from the hight where my love had placed him; to have to take care of him, to pity him—ay, and T might pity him, but I think the full glory and passion of my love would die out, then and there, forever.— Life for a Life. OkJ*W hile at Alexandria, in Egypt, during his late Oriental visit. Senator Seward waftpresented with three splendid Arabian horses, which he has shipped from Alexandria. Two of them will, we understand, be presented to the New York State Agricultural Society, o^7"Prentice, in one of his recent witty feuiletons, says that in America it takes three to make a pair: he, s e, and a hired girl. Had Adam been a modern, there would have been a hired girl in Paradise to look after little Able and raise Cain.